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ASTEROSTIGMA. & — Spatha lanceolata 

 hians. Spadix supra flores femineos masculis 

 tandem distantiuseulis obsitus, inferne par- 

 tim accretus. Ovaria staminodiis brevibus, 

 truncatis, saepe in cupulam connatis eireum- 

 vallata, 2-3-4-locularia, loculamentis 1-ovu- 

 latis, in styium conoideum attenuata, stigma- 

 te aslerisciformi magno, teniri horizontaliter 

 sivepeltalim explanato, 3-5-partito, partitio- 

 nibus 1. acutis 1. bifidis laoiniis 2-bus aciitis. 

 Synandria vertice umbonata. Pollen in far- 

 ciminulis expulsum. Bacca 2-3-IocuIaris, (fla- 

 vida?), loculamentis 1-spermis. Semen bre- 

 vissirne-funiculatum ellipsoideum, transver- 

 sum, minutissime-verrueulosum, rhaphe et 

 chalaza Iaevi,micropyle parietem versus spe- 

 ctante. Albumen copiosum. Embryo axilis. 



Folii lamina primum pedati - in slirpe 

 adultiore pinnatipariila cruribus quoune pin- 

 nalipartitis. 

 1. eoneinnnm. &. (Oest. BoL WchnbLII. p. 67. 

 1852.J — Folii peliolus pallidus, maculis 

 sparsis atrolividis haud magnis striolisque 

 interruptis pallide- violascentibus notatus. 

 Lamina fol. in juvencula trisecta, pedati- 

 secta, segmentis pseudoneuro donatis, in 

 adulta tricruris, 1. tripartita, partilione me- 

 dia pinnatisecta, segmentis subdistinetis baud 

 remotis, elongato-oblongis, acuminato-cu- 

 spidatis, inferne obtusatis, patentissimis, 

 pseudoneuro manifesto nullo; partitionibus 

 lateralibus, segmentis tantum 2-bus consti- 



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