557 



bus, apicem versus sensim anguslala, suha- 

 cuminata. Nervi 5-7 cum 2-bus e costa me- 

 dio exortis 7-9, 2-4 ex apicepetioli, reliqui 

 e costa, inferiores in marginem excurren- 

 les, supremi pseudoneurum constiluentes. 

 Pedunculus l-iy 4 -pollicaris, crassus. Spa- 

 tha carnoso-coriacea, concava, patens 1. pa- 

 tentissima , elliptica acuminata -cuspidata, 

 basi subdecurrens, extus ex ferrugineo ru- 

 bens, intus virens. Spadix oblongus, stipi- 

 tatus, cum stipite 5 / 4 -pollicaris, absque sli- 

 pite pollicaris, crassus, violascenter live- 

 scens, tandem spatham excedens. Pistilla 

 stylo elongato praedita. — Patria? — v. o. 

 cult. 



b s c u r a. 



181. obtusifolium Knth. (En. III. p. 79. 1841.) 



— Foliis cordalis, obtusissimis. Knth. 1. c. 



— Barbados. 



182. flexuosum. Knth. (En. 111. p. 82. 1841.J — 

 Ilamis scandentibus, leviter flexuosis ; foliis 

 oblongis, leviter- acuminatis, basi obtusis, 

 reticulato-venosis, coriaceis \ — Orinoco, 

 Rio-negro. Knth. I. c. 



183. palmatififliim. Van Houtte (Hort. S.J — 

 quid ? 



E x c i u d e n d a, 



peltatlllll Poepp. = Philod. pel tat. S. 

 striatum C. Kch. — '.' Moiistera ex C. Kch. 



