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parte. obvolutus,. Spatha 7-8 pollices longa, extus pallido flavo- 
virens, intus luteola, ovato-lanceolata, basi antice decurrens et quasi 
spadicis dorsum versus auriculata, ibique infima auriculata parte 
relicta, disrumpens, decidentis partis infima portione late-conchiformi, 
altera, subconvoluta sensimque longe-angustata longiore terminata. 
Spadix cum stipite }-pollicari, 4-polliearis, primum in spathe parte 
conchiformi absconditus, digitiformis excepto stipite pallide-virente 
lutescens. — Ovaria ad latera apicis subaurantiaca, inferne pallida. 
Filamenta flavicantia. Pollen farciminulose propullulans. Stigmata 
flava.—America centralis (Wendland /), 
Rhodospatha blanda, Schott, n. sp.—Petioli pedales et ultra, vagina 
ad geniculum usque producta. Lamina fol. lanceolato-oblonga 14- 18 
poll. longa, 5—6 poll. medio lata, basi linea extrorsum arcuata subsen- 
sim cuneata, apice a medio sensim angustata, cuspidato-acuminata, 
venis plurimis.. patentibus, in margine parum curvis. Pedunculus 
8-9 pollices longus, vagina 4-pollicari obvolutus. Spatha 5 pollices 
circiter longze, 31 polliees late, extus flavo-virens, intus sulfureo-albida, 
basi parum vel vix decurrens, infima reflexa parte ex rotundato pro- 
- funde conchiformi, subconvoluto apice sesquipollicari abrupte distincto 
Minna, Spadix cum stipite viridi fere pollicari, 33 polliees longus, 
2 pollicem crassus, digitiformis, pallide rubiginoso-carneus. Ovaria 
apice ad latera ochracea, stigmate pallido. Filamenta albida. Anthere 
. flavee,—Brasilia, Theos EDD F. Maximilianus /). 
Monstera egregia, Schott, n. sp.—Petioli 12 poll. et ultra longi, 
inferne canaliculate-vaginat, superne vagina expansa in geniculum 
usque alati. Geniculum £ poll, longum in laminam progrediens, 
lamine portione plica ERE cuneatim, margine crispato decurrente 
instructum, antice subcanaliculatum. Lamina fol. lanceolato-oblonga, 
_ 23-24 poll. longa, 9- 10 poll. inferne lata, oblique-inzequilatera, supra 
-atro-viridis, infra leviter flavo-viridis, apicem versus sensim angustata, 
_ acuminata, basi rotundata, foraminibus majusculis minimisque coste 
approximatis preedita. Costa supra canaliculata, subtus semitereti- 
, prominens. Venæ 27-29 utrinque, crasse, approximate, rectiuscule, 
... patentes. Pedunculus e vagina petiolari parum procedens, brevis, cras- 
_ Sus, Spatha 8 pollices*longa, 35 pollices diametro profunda, basi 
. latere. exteriore late-rotundata, apice obtusa, cuspidulo brevi apiculata, 
utrinque flava. Spadix. sessilis, 54 pollices longus, 2 poll. crassus, 
is “spatha poll. 2 brevior. Ovaria apice et vertice flava. Stigma auran- 
