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superans, eonoidea, pallide-flavens quatn 

 feminea multoties longior. Ovaria 4-6-lo- 

 cularia, loculamentis multiovulatis. Stami- 

 nodia ovaria superantia, media crassissima. 

 Stamina 5-6 flosculum formantia. Fructus 

 crasse-obovoideus luteus, loculamentis 11- 

 12-spermis. Semen ellipsoideum, sordide- 

 flavens. — v. v. cult. 



III. Lamina fol. plus minusve sagitta- 

 ta, costula loborum posticorum, ve- 

 nis rectiusculis pinnativenia, (in si- 

 nu denudata). Stipulae suboppositae. 



Grex 12. Meconostigma. 8. 



Arborescens. Petiolus acietato-semite- 

 res. Lamina fol. pergamena, sagittata, venis 

 crassis, antici lobi 3-5, venastris irregula- 

 riter exsertis interdum nullis. Pedunculi 

 solitarii. Spatha tubo subindistincto, ad 

 basin fere naviculare-aperta. Spadix cras- 

 sus, spica feminea brevi, neutra duplici, 

 inter ovaria et antheras et in apice spadi- 

 cis, priore longa, altera breviore. Ovaria 

 stigmatibus magnis, contiguis, arete pelta- 

 to-radiato-plurigibbis coronata, multilocu- 

 laria, loculamentis 2-4-ovulatis. Antherae 

 tenues. Semina ellipsoidea. 

 82. speciosum. S.fMeleLl.p. 20.1832.) Petiolus 

 antice deplanatus, costa plus duplo longior. 

 Lamina fol. triangulari-oblongo-ovata, acu- 

 minata, cuspidulata, profunde-sagittata, lo- 



