nerves, 1.8-2.5 cm. broad from midrib to margin, (4) 
5-9 cm. long; petioles (7) 10-80 cm. long, about 2.5 
mm. thick, narrowly winged toward the apex; blades 
thinly chartaceous, 8-15 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, ob- 
long-elliptic, with 15-25 (80) primary veins, the apex 
sub-conduplicate, abruptly caudate-acuminate, obtuse, 
15-20 mm. long, the base abruptly constricted, inequa- 
lateral. Peduncle pseudo-terminal, solitary, 10-30 cm. 
long, 2-2.5 mm. thick, somewhat enlarged and com- 
pressed at the summit, brown-scurfy-pubescent upward, 
at length glabrescent. Inflorescence compressed. Invo- 
lucral bracts 2, reniform-caudate, 2.5-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-38 
cm. broad, finely multi-veined, whitish and brown-scurfy 
at the base, the apex 1—2.5 cm. long. Receptacle con- 
vex, about 6 mm. broad, 4 mm. high, bracts paleaceous. 
Spikelets essentially sessile, bractlets 8-10, linear-oblan- 
ceolate, 9-10 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, 8-nerved, mem- 
branaceous, abruptly acuminate, the acumen 1.5—-2 mm. 
long, the bractlets approximately arranged below the 
calyx. Sepals 8, about 10 mm. long, faintly 3—-5-veined, 
the bases delicately membranous and completely connate 
into a tube, the upper halves free, lanceolate-acuminate, 
indurate. Corolla delicately membranous, white, appar- 
ently about 10 cm. long, the claws connate for 1-2 mm., 
the blade ovate-deltoid, acute, about 5 mm. long. Sta- 
mens 6, about 6 mm. long; filaments membranous, 1— 
2 mm. long, 0.8-1 mm. broad, adnate to the corolla 
for 1-2 mm. ; anthers about 4 mm. long, 4-lobed in cross 
section, auriculate at the base tapering upward, white, 
scantily brown-scurfy at the summit; appendage about 
1.5 mm. long, brown, cochleariform, linear-oblong, at- 
tached by ashort, sigmoid base. Style more or less equal- 
ling the stamens, the stigma trigonous, acute. Ovary 
3-celled, membranous at the base, the upper part subin- 
durate, white: ovules 1 per cell. Seed oblong, 5-6 mm. 
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