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purpuream extendente. Spadix gibboso-di- 

 gitiformis, ad % femineus. Ovaria ut stig- 

 mata flaventia. Spica mascula pallidissime 

 flavo-ochracea. Fructus e spatha disrupta 

 solutus oblongus e baccis pallidissime flavo- 

 ochraceis, polyspermis. — Amer. centralis. 

 Wend land. — v. v. cult. 



Grex 8. Platypodium. 8. 



Scandens. Stipulae suboppositae nullae. 

 Petiolus (in juvencula interdum vagina in- 

 ferne auctus), semiteres, crassus, alato- 

 marginatus, ala 1. margine dorso laminae 

 in costamposticam excurrente. Lamina ro- 

 tundata 1. oblongata, cuspidulata ; ampla, 

 venis crassiusculis, infimis (in adulta) in 

 eostas posticas, in sinu tandem denudatas 

 conjunctis, lobi antici 4-5, venastrisnuilis. 

 60. pterotnm. C. Kch. (Append. 1854. p. 6.) 

 Petioli elongati stricti, porrecti, margine 

 membranaceo, angusto, inferne explanato, 

 superne undulato-crispulo. Lamina fol. ro- 

 tundate-cordiformis, cuspidulata, lobis po- 

 sticis rotundatis, obliquatis, exitu accum- 

 bentibus, amplis. Costae posticae in sinu 

 oblotigo-lanceolato ad medium fere (sinus 

 clausi) denudalae, crassae. Venae lobi anti- 

 ci 4, suboppositae, aperte-patentes, rectae. 

 crassae. — Amer. centralis. (Wendland. 

 — v. v. cult. 

 61. (ra^rantissimum Knth. (En. HI. p. 49. 

 1841. Petioli elongati, margine membrana- 



