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coriacea triangulari-oblongo-ovata apice acuminata demurn cuspidulata, basi profunde 

 sagittata, 3 — 6 dm longa, i — 4 dm lala, lobis posticis subrhomboideis oblusiusculis 

 latere interiore supra medium subabrupte contractis, 1,5 — 2 dm longis, i — 1,3 dm 

 latis, sinu plerumque amplo \el parabolico distanlibus, cosUs posticis longe inlerdum ad 

 lertiam partom usque denudalis, nervis lateralibus I. costalibus ulrinque circ. 5 patenti- 

 bus rectis prope marginem carlilagineum sursum versis, nervis lateralibus I. in latere 

 inferiore loborum posticorum 2 — 3, in latei'e superiore 3 — 4. Pedunculus 5 — 6 cm longus, 

 2 cm crassus. Spathae crassae extus praeter margines purpurascentes viridis intus 

 kermesinae 2 — 2,3 dm longae, supra 6 cm latae tubus oblongus 8 — 10 cm longus, 

 4 — 5 cm amplus, lamina bians oblonga a lubo leviter dislincta. Spadicis digiliformis 

 breviter stipitati inflorescenlia feminea florifera 2,5 — 3 cm longa, 1,5 — 1,8 cm crassa, 

 fructifera usque i dm longa, inferne 4 mm crassa; inflorescenlia mascula 8 — \0 cm 

 longa, ad circ. -3 longiludinis slerilis. Pistilla oblonga, 3 mm longa, 1,5 mm crassa, 

 9 — H-locularia, sligmatis 9 — I 0-lobi lobis fere 2 mm longis margine deflexis; ovuIa 

 pro loculo 2 — 3 funiculis brevibus circ. ad medium loculi afflxa. Flores masculi steriles 

 plerumque 6-andri, staminodiis clavatis vertice truncatis, 4 mm longis; fertiles 4-andri, 

 staminibus elongato-prismaticis, thecis linearibus juxtapositis. Baccae luteae breviter 

 cylindricae, 1,5 cm longae, \ cm crassae, 9 — H-loculares, loculis 2 — 3-spermis. Semina 

 viridi-flavescentia, 4 — 5 mm longa, crassiuscule stropbiolala. 



Südbrasilianiscbe Provinz: Brasilien: Provinz Minas Geraes, Presidio de 

 San JoSo Baplista (Sellow n. 137. — Herb. Berlin); Provinz San Paulo, Bocaina (Glaziou 

 n. 9024, 15576. — Herb. Berlin); Provinz San Paulo, Sumpf bei Simäo (A. Löfgren 

 n. 1528. — Blühend im November 1889. — Herb. Berlin); Provinz Mattogrosso, häuflg 

 am Uferabhang am Quellfluß des Batory (Pilger n. 672. — Blühend im Juni 1899. — 

 Herb. Berlin). — Wird in Bot. Gärten kultiviert. 



214. P. brasiliense Engl, in Marl. FI. brasil. III. 2. (1878) 168, in DC, Monogr. 

 Phan. II, (1879) 427 et in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVI. (1899; 555. — Caudex arborescens 

 validus. Foliorum petiolus teretiusculus supra leviter canaliculatus, 3 — 4 dm longus, 

 inferne vagina 5 — 6 cm longa, latissima instructus; lamina subcoriacea late Iriangulari- 

 sagittata, 3 — 4,5 dm longa, 2,8 — 3,5 dm lata, lobis posticis subrhomboideis retrorsis 

 vel subexlrorsis, exilu obtusis, latere interiore rolundatis, 1 dm longis, 1,2 — 1,5 dm 

 latis, coslis posticis in sinu circ. 2 cm longe denudalis, lobo antico semioblongo-ovalo 

 apice aculo quam poslici 2^,2 — 3-plo longiore, nervis lateralibus I. lobi antici 5 — 6, 

 infimis e basi nascentibus patentibus, loborum posticorum latere inferiore 2 — 3 tenuiori- 

 bus, latere superiore 2 validioribus a costa abeuntibus. Pedunculi solitarii 1,5 — 2 dm 

 longi, 4 — 5 mm crassi. Spathae crassae 1,2 — 1,5 dm longae, supeme 6 — 7 cm lalae 

 tubus oblongus laminae lanceolatae apice acuminatae subaequilongus. Spadicis sub- 

 sessilis inflorescenlia feminea florifera circ. 3 cm longa, 1 cm crassa, majore parle 

 spathae dorso adnala, fructifera 6 — 7 cm assequens, inflorescenlia mascula slerilis 4 — 

 5 cm longa, fertilis 2 — 2,5 cm longa, quam feminea pauUum crassior. Pistifla cylin- 

 drica, 3 mm longa, 2 mm crassa, 6 — 8-IocuIaria, loculis dimidium pislilli aequantibus, 

 plerumque 3-ovulalis, ovulis infra et supra medium affixis; sligmatis lobi margine de- 

 fluentes. Staminodia 4 — 5 mm longa, verlice 1 mm crassa; stamina paullum breviora. 

 Baccae cylindricae 1 cm longae, 4 — 5 mm crassae, loculis 2 — 3-spermis; semina ob- 

 longa fere 2 mm melienlia. — Fig. 44A' — R. 



Südbrasilianische Provinz: Brasilien: Provinz Minas Geraes, in Sümpfen 

 am Rio Verde bei Caldas (Regneil n. 1292. — Herb. Stockholm; Lindberg. — Herb. 

 Stockholm; Widgren. — Herb. Stockholm). 



215. P. cymbispathum Engl, in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVI. (1899) 555. — Caudex 

 arborescens. Foliorum petiolus 3 — 3.5 dm longus, ultra 1dm vaginatus; lamina coriacea 

 ulrinque nilidula ovato-sagillala apice acuta, 2,5 — 3 dm longa, inferne 2,5 dm lala, 

 lobis posticis sinu profundo obtuso sejunctis, margine undulala, coslis posticis horizon- 

 taliter dislanlibus, nervis lateralibus I. crassis loborum posticorum latere inferiore 2 — 3, 

 latere superiore 3, lobi anlici ulrinque 5 — 6 angulo obtuso a costa abeuntibus inier sc 



