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  MALME, 
  BEITKÄGE 
  ZUR 
  XYRIDACEEN-FLORA 
  StJDAMERIKAS. 
  

  

  Abolboda 
  II. 
  & 
  B. 
  

  

  A. 
  grandis 
  Griseb. 
  (184S). 
  

  

  Alb. 
  Nilsson, 
  Studien, 
  ji. 
  64. 
  

  

  Surinam; 
  (Kappler 
  N:o 
  1319.). 
  

  

  Venezuela 
  meridion.: 
  ad 
  fluraen 
  Guainia 
  v. 
  E,io 
  Negro, 
  

   supra 
  ostium 
  lluminis 
  Casiquiari 
  (1854. 
  öpruce 
  3545.). 
  

  

  Var. 
  minor 
  Spruce 
  (in 
  sched. 
  sine 
  descr.). 
  

  

  Rhizoma 
  crassum, 
  circiter 
  1 
  cm. 
  diam., 
  adscendens, 
  radi- 
  

   ces 
  sat 
  tenues, 
  subsimplices 
  emittens. 
  Folia 
  conferta, 
  subro- 
  

   sularia, 
  erecto-patentia, 
  tenuia, 
  plana, 
  anguste 
  lanceolata 
  v. 
  

   lanceolato-sublinearia, 
  apice 
  acuminata, 
  15 
  — 
  20 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  

   1 
  — 
  1,5 
  cm. 
  lata, 
  glaberrima, 
  leevna, 
  supra 
  obscure 
  viridia, 
  sub- 
  

   tus 
  pailidiora, 
  subhyalino-marginata, 
  nervis 
  sat 
  numerosis, 
  

   subtus 
  manifeste 
  emersis 
  percursa. 
  Scapi 
  plures, 
  erecti, 
  non- 
  

   nihil 
  flexuosi, 
  25 
  — 
  30 
  cm. 
  alti, 
  1 
  — 
  1,5 
  mm. 
  crassi, 
  subteretes 
  

   v. 
  (in 
  sicco) 
  nonnihil 
  compressi, 
  superne 
  indistincte 
  plurico- 
  

   stati, 
  in 
  parte 
  tertia 
  inferiore 
  nec 
  non 
  in 
  parte 
  tertia 
  supe- 
  

   riore 
  vaginis 
  binis 
  spatheeformibus 
  (amplexicaulibus), 
  altera 
  

   alterara 
  amplectente, 
  sat 
  arcte 
  adpressis, 
  1,5 
  — 
  2 
  cm. 
  longis, 
  

   acutis 
  v. 
  acuminatis, 
  late 
  subbyalino-marginatis 
  muniti. 
  Spica 
  

   late 
  obovoidea 
  v. 
  late 
  turbinata, 
  circiter 
  1 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  sat 
  pau- 
  

   ciflora; 
  bractepe 
  (jam 
  infimtC 
  flores 
  suffulcientes) 
  subsequi- 
  

   longpc, 
  amplexicaules, 
  late 
  ovato-triangulares, 
  circiter 
  4 
  mm. 
  

   longtC, 
  acutu", 
  ecarinatse, 
  Iccves. 
  apicem 
  versus 
  virides, 
  late 
  

   subhyalino-marginatcie. 
  Sepala 
  lateralia 
  libera, 
  bracteis 
  multo 
  

   longiora, 
  8 
  — 
  9 
  mm. 
  longa, 
  navicularia, 
  subsequilatera, 
  lanceo- 
  

   lato-triangularia, 
  acuta 
  v. 
  nonnihil 
  acuminata, 
  late 
  subliya- 
  

   lino-all)ida, 
  dorso 
  viridia 
  carinataque, 
  carina 
  anguste 
  alata, 
  

   glabra. 
  (Flores 
  desunt.) 
  Capsula 
  late 
  oblongo-fusiformis, 
  ob- 
  

   tuse 
  trigona, 
  circiter 
  5 
  mm. 
  longa, 
  (usque 
  ad 
  apicem?) 
  trilo- 
  

   cularis, 
  valvulis 
  tribus 
  apicem 
  versus 
  inorassatis 
  loculicide 
  

   dehiscens. 
  Somina 
  numerosa, 
  funiculis 
  brevibus 
  affixa, 
  (non- 
  

   dum 
  matura) 
  subglobosa, 
  crebre 
  costata. 
  

  

  Brasiiia: 
  provincia 
  Rio 
  Negro 
  (nunc 
  Alto 
  Amazonas), 
  

   prope 
  Barra 
  s. 
  Manåos 
  (Juli 
  1S51. 
  Spruce 
  1654.). 
  

  

  