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angusta relin totum internodium amplectens eique adnata, gas circ. 3—4 mm 
longus, lamina subcoriacea, nitida, infimorum lanceolata, inferne c uneata, longe cuspi- 
BE iai, superiorum anguste lanceolata, basi pe in acumen sensim angusta- 
tum longisidmum. producta, 1— 1,25 dm longa, 1,5—2,5 em lata, nervis lateralibus I. 
et II. erecto-patentibus utrinque valde prominentibus, pr ope mele conjunctis. Ramuli 
floriferi tenues vix 1/, foli aequantes, infra spatham cataphyllis lanceolatis deciduis 
instructi. Spatha ovata convoluta euspidato-acuminata, 2 cm longa, 1,5 cm lata. Spadix 
cylindricus quam spatha - aullo brevior, 1,5—1,75 cm longus, 6—1 mm crassus, flos- 
culis majusculis. — Fig. 20.4. 
Südbrasilien (Sello — Herb. Berlin); (Burchell n. 1125, 1277, 3492, 4649 
— Herb. Kew 
Var. Riedeliana rhan Engl. in Fl. brasil. II. 2. (1878) 29 et in DC. 
Phan. IL (1879) 100. H. Ri edeliana Schott in Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr. (1859) 99, 
Prodr. (1860) 375. — Folia superne latiora, obverse oblongo-elliptica, subabrupte in 
cuspidem longam angustata. Spadix cylindroideus. 
brasilien: Rio de Janeiro (Riedel — Herb. Petersburg, Glaziou n. 6999 — 
Herb. Berlin); im Wald des Corcovado (Ule, Herb. brasil. n. 4618 — Herb. Berlin). 
5. H. longispathacea Engl. n. sp. — Rami tenues eund flexuosi. Foliorum 
vagina totum internodium amplectens, petiolus cire. 2 mm longus, lamina tenuior, sub- 
lanceolata, basi acuta, longe acuminata, qun 5 dm longa, medio 
ata, nervis lateralibus I. et II. utrinque prominentibus prope marginem con- 
junctis. Ramuli floriferi breves. Spatha oblongo-lanceolata, longe acuminata, quam spadix 
duplo longior, 7 em longa, 2,5 em lata. Spadix stipite 2—3 mm longo suffultus, 3,5 cm 
longus, 5 mm crassus. Pistilla vertice 3 mm lata, stigmate oblongo instructa. — Fig. 20 
Hylaea: Fortaleza am untern Juruá (E. Ule, Herb. brasil. n. 6016 — blühend 
im November — Herb. 
Nota. Species Heteropsidi salieifoliae affinis, Hs foliis paulo longioribus et latioribus 
spatha majore, eia ac cuminata, spadice longiore, tenu 
H. Jenmanii Oliv. in Hook. Icon. XX. (1890) t. 1949. — Ramuli 5 mm crassi. 
Foliorum Br cire. 6—7 mm longus, 3— 4 mm crassus, lamina oblongo-lanceolata, 
usque 2 dm longa, a medio 6 cm lato versus basin et some — angustata, 
inaequilatera, altero latere 2,5 em, altero 3,5 em lato, acumine circ. 4 cm longo instructa, 
nervis lateralibus I. utrinque circ. 46 in nervum collectivum a margine 2—3 
remotum conjunctis. Ramuli floriferi circ. 4 cm longi, internodiis inferioribus 2—3 mm 
re fere 4 cm longis. € cum acumine 5 mm longo 8 cm longa, 3 em 
ampla. Spadix stipite 5 mm longo suffultus 5,5 cm longus, medio 4 em crassus, utrin- 
que paullum attenuatus. Pistilla nie stigmate parvo orbiculari instructa; ovula 
ds basin affixa. 
Hylaea: poer Guiana (Jenman n. 5000 — Herb. Kew) 
Nota, CL Oliver Jenmanii observationem sequentem commemorat: 
up the ice hp trees, po which it sends down long aerial roots, which split into thin strips, 
form the most useful tying material the Indians employ«. Equidem in nullo specimine ullius 
Heteropsis Fe aereas longas inveni. 
: »The plant grows 
Tribus III. Anthurieae Engl. 
nthurieae Engl. in DC. Mon. Phan. ll. (1879) 63 et in Engl. u. Prantl, Pflzfam. 
Il. 3. Jen 112 et 415 
5. Anthurium Schott. *) 
( Anthurium Schott in Wiener Zeitschr. f. Kunst etc. II. (1829) 828; Melet. I. 
1832) 22, Gen. Aroid. (1858) t. 94 et Prodr. (1860) 436; Endl. Gen. (1838—40) 
—— — - 
*) &v$og = flos, oög« = cauda, propter flores saepissime numerosos in spicam haud raro 
caudiformem dispositos 
