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nei accedit, stipes graciles filiformes, vasculosa, tunc pars sub- 
clavato antherigere, denique apex imus ‘Spatheis conicus nu- 
diss. texture partes intermedize. 
Ovaria (ut in Pistia) dorso spadice fere per totam longitud. 
adnat. Stylo sub o. Stigma subsessilis oblongo-discoidea pa- 
pillosa. Ovula plura cuique ovario, antitropa, funiculata, fila- 
mentis, simplicibus vermiciformibus crebris quasi nidulantia. 
Anthere' biloculares, raro 1-3 loculares pyxidiformi, apice 
lati dehiscentes. 
Pollen tubes often imbedded in the anther itself. 
Fructus nudus. Spatha nempe lapsa spadicis vestigius nul- 
lis, e carpellis 8, ventro planis, lateribus sub-bicarinatis, conna- 
tis, apice récurvis centrale sulcatis conflatis. 
Rhizomat. fol. florifer. brev. Petioli altiuscul. vaginant. 
З pedales apici canaliculati caeterum teretes; lamina anguste 
et longe lanceolata, subacuta, carnoso-coriacea, integra, venis 
2 indistincti, obliquis. Spatha petiol. 2-3 brevior axillaris 
lamina obliq. ascendent., tubo compresso. 
Æstivat. involuto-convolut., vagina marginibus involutis 
mag. folium quodque initio vestit. Processus ciliiformibus agil- 
laribus (from the whole axil. not from central point), pluribus. 
Spathze limbus estivatione l-tortus compressus angulatus 
marginales valvatim incurvatze, z:equales, but in the tube one 
margin is thicker, and the two are valvately applied, with a 
tendency to incurvation. It is from the thicker margin 
that the hollow cone has its origin. This plant is remark- 
able for the process of the spatha covering the apex of 
the spadix, for the pyxidate anthers, the direction of the fe- 
males, and their broad attachment, the vermiform conducting 
. tissue, the imitation of a compound fruit, and above all, for 
the embryo. 
1. Plant about the natural size. 
2. Lamina of leaf. 
3. Lateral view of Ler: 
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