Caudhces 3-4 contemporanei, 3"-3",30 ::0",025-0",030, annulati. #o4a 10-12 contemporanea, 
1,45 long. ; vagina o",12 long., brunneo-tomentosa; petolus 0",80 long. teneriter rubescens 
post viridi-nitens; r4achis 0*,53 long., anticè bifacialis; lamina in foliola 10 utrinque inæquilata 
falcata secta; foliolis 1-12-nerviis nervis supra salientibus; 0",40-0",55 long. +— 50°. Spatha 
lineari-lanceolata, brunneo-tomentosa, pedunculo spadice subæquali, interiorà minorâ, 0",16- 
0",20-0",25. Spadices 1-2 contemporanei, pedunculo cylindraceo, ad basin compresso, bruneo- 
tomentoso, 0”,20 long. ; rhachis cylindracea, 0”,09 long., remis 10 contemporaneis, subsecundis, 
cylindraceis, 0",20-26 long., viridibus; a/ocolis in spirà 2-stichis, 0",005 inter se distantibus, 
prominentibus, labio emarginato. FLORES FEM. in alabastrum 0",005 long.; sepalis oblongis, 
acutis, concavis, dorso in apice carinatis, marginibus arguté fimbriatis; petalis quam sepalis 
majoribus, connatis, apice tripartitis, acutis; wrceolo staminali corolla minore, trigono, sexden- 
tato; s#ylo basilari, apice trigono, tripartito; overio pyriformi. Baccæ? 
Ha. 2x silos humides prope Rodeio, Rio de Janeiro. #1or. 
Ramis parvis. 
11. GEONOMA BREVISPATHA Barb. Roûr. 
TAB. 22 ET 31, FIG. P. 
Foliis pinnatifidis; foliolis terminalibus 7-8-nerviis, mediis 1-nerviis, primis 4-nerviis; 
spadice purpureo, pubescenti; spatha dupla aliquoties tripla minutissima; staminibus atropur- 
pureis; antheris oblongis, acuminatis, purpureis, dehiscentibus in apice. 
Geonoma brevispatha Barb. Rodr., Prof. Append., 5. 41; Jndex Kow. TT, p. 10716; 
Drude #7 Mart. #or. Bras. 11. pars IT, 5. 509. 
Caudex erectus, flexuosus, cæspitosus, flavo-ferrugineus deinde cinereus, annulatus, annulis 
in tempus 0",06-0",10 Ig. posterius admotis, 3-4» 0",018-0",025. #oha 10-12 contemporanea, 
erecto-patentia, subrecurva, irregulariter pinnatifida; pe#olo extus convexo, intus canaliculato, 
fulvo-ferrugineo tomentoso, 0",62 lg.; rhachis antice bifacialis, postice convex4, 0",47 lg; 
Jfoliolis alternis irregulariter dispositis, 8-9 utrinque, inferioribus latis, falcatis, 4-nerviis, acumi- 
natis, 0",36-0",48 x 0",020-0",085, mediis linearibus, uninervatis, 0%,30-0%,33 x o",o1 lg. 
superioribus falcatis, 7-8-nerviis, cum uno intermixti lineari, nervis supra prominentibus. 
Spathæ parvæ, 2-3 contemporaneæ, 0”,07 lg., lanceolatæ, obtusæ, interiora minora o0”",03 lg, 
ferrugineo tectæ. Spadix erectus; pedunculus compressus, velutinus, bibracteatus, bracteis 
subtriangularibus, 0",15 Ig., in rhachin triplo breviorem purpureum transiens; ras 8-10 con- 
temporancis, flexuosis, ad apicem mucronato-circinatis, 0",20 lg.; alveoli 2-stichi, labio inferiore 
bidentato. FLORES MASC. : calyce corolla minore; sepa/a irregulariter ovata, acuta, concava, ad 
apicem purpurea denticulata; corolla urceolata, trifida, rosea, urceolo staminali stereli corollam 
æquilongi, #lamentrs radiatis, subrecurvis, purpureis; anfheræ oblongæ, acuminatæ, erectæ, apice 
circinatæ, atropurpureæ. ,S#/o rudimentario ovato, trifñido. FLORES FEM. non vidi. 
Hag. 22 silvis inundatis ad Rio Sapucahy, prope fazenda de Santa-Rosa, Minas Geracs. 
Guaricanga do brejo (1) 6 #ncolis nominatur. For. Septembri. 
(1) On nomme aussi le Geonoma Pohliana Mart. Guaricanga de folha larga, le G. Schottiana Mart., Guaricanga de folha 
miuda, et le G. elegans Mart., Guaricanga de bengala. 
