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14. ST. HILLIGII. 75 



cili, ascendente; internodiis 3-4 cm. longis, 4-5 mm. 

 crassis, striolatis; petiolis 10-13 cm. longis, vagina basi 



I dilatata, amplexante, sursum angustata, infra petloli Yi 



desinente; in folio pedunculari ad 2-2, cm. infra laminani 

 producta; lamina oblongo-elliptica dense cartilaglnea, 



r SLibtus pallidiore, basi obtusa, apice acuta vel breviter 



acuminata, 10-13 cm, longa, circa medium, 45 cm, lata; 

 pedunculo 16-18 cm. longo, ad Y^, usque vagina folii pe- 

 diincularis, arete involute; spathat . . . .spadice breviter 

 (2-3 mm.) stipitato, cylindrico ad 5 cm. longo, 5-6 mm. 

 crasso; pistil! is crassitudine sua paulo longioribus; ova- 

 rio incomplete i-loculari, 4-ovuIato; ovulis funiculo bre- 

 vi suffultis (Engl. loc. cit. p. 112 



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Crescit in silvis subtrop. occid. M, Pichincha Inter 



Nanegal ^t Gualea. 



B. Caudice crasso, internodiis brevihus; limhis magnis; 

 /T. Petiolis quam pedunculi iimbique longioribus, 



l-l Sf. nilligii Sod. SD. nov.; caudi 



inUi^nodiis i cm. longis. ad 2 cm. crassis; petiolis 3 dm. 

 longis, limbos parum superantibus, midtistriatis; vagina 

 basi 1 cm- utrinque lata, sursum modice angustata, ad 

 diinidium usque intructis; li??ibis cotislc^xs 2-2,5 dn). lon- 

 s, siibobovato- ellipticis. in triente superiore, 13-15 cm. 

 tis, atque inde sursum in apicem acuminatum vel bre- 

 ter abruDteaue 'aniculatuni et deorsum in basin obru- 



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5 20 mm. longo suffultis; cos/a 

 exerta obtusa, prope apicem 



evanescente; new is tenuibus I. a II. vix distinctis, sub 

 angulo acuto a costa ad marginem arcuatim diyergenti- 

 bus; pedunculo 25 cm. longo, quam petioli tenuiore; spa- 



tha? spadice s,*t?>%\\\, cylindrico, ad \o cm. longo, 4 



mm. crasso; //i-/////^ subsequilongis ac latis, 2 loculari- 

 biiq. Inriill'; disnermis: seminibus asvmmetricis. arcuato- 



obclavatis. fi 



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Crescit in silvis trope, prov. Esmeraldas, 



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