90 



1908, p. 34, fig. 4 and tab. III). A. & E. S. Gepp, The Godiaceae of the Siboga 

 Expedition, Monographie, LXII, 1911, p. 44. 



The dried specimens have a dark oHve-green colour some- 

 times with a greyish tinge, most probably the living specimens 

 have nearly the same colour, perhaps somewhat more green. Stipe 

 cylindric in the nethermost part becoming more flattened higher 

 up, 6 — 23 cm. long, 7 mm in diam. Flabellum oblong-reniform 

 ^^^th cordate or especially in older specimens more or less cuneate 



Fig. 73. AvrainviUen asarijolia Borgs. 

 Habit of plant. (About ^Url). 



base up to about 10 cm. high and 14 cm. broad, entire or lobed, 

 thin and membranous, of a rather firm consistency and in most 

 of the specimens clearly zonate ; the surface subglabrous, under a 

 lens finely granulated. 



Filaments in the interior of the flabellum cylindric or often 

 slightly moniliform or torulose with a rather strong constriction 

 above the dichotomy (Fig. 75 a, b). The diameter of the fila- 

 ments about 20 — 30,", more often reaching only 24 — 27 /i. Near 



