500 



gum. Lamina fol. 18-20 pollices longa, 12- 

 13 pollices ad petioli affixionem lata, late- 

 ex ovato-oblongo cor di for mis, exilum infi- 

 iiium versus levissime angustata, auriculis 

 late-semiovatis, sinuobtecto 5-pollicari hand 

 remotis sed maxima parte incumbent! bus, 

 apicem versus linea sat arcuata angustata, 

 cuspidata. Costa sub-14-pollicaris. Nervi 

 13, intimi infernc recti, patenles, arcuatirn 

 margini approximati et pseudoneurum con- 

 tinuum, a margine subremotum constituen- 

 tes, intimis vicini aperte exortu patentes 

 sursum arcuati ad 3 / 4 laminae margini jun- 

 cti, reliqui retrocurvi et a medio 1. apice 

 sursum curvi margini inferior! inserti. Ve- 

 nae costales sub-5 utrinque, inferiores e 

 media costa exortae parum curvae, paten- 

 tes, summae apertius patentes. Pedunculus 

 10-pollicaris, crassus. Spalba 5 5% polli- 

 ces longa, 1% poll, inferne lata, anguste 

 oblongo-elliplica, abrupte cuspidata, alba, 

 basi subdecurrens. Spadix tripollicaris, cras- 

 sus, brevissime-stipitatus. Ovaria tandem 

 prominula. — Caracas, e regione alpina. 

 Moritz. — v. specim. spontan. in Herb. 

 Mus. Vindob. 

 102. consimile. S. (Oesterr. B. Wochenbl 1857. 



p. 294.) — Petiolus Geniculum 



Lamina fol. \§\' % -\l pollices 



longa, 13 pollices ad imam quintam costae 

 partem lata, late-cordiformis, exitum inti- 

 mum versus in auriculas rotundala, auricu- 



