62 3 .4. PYRIFOLIUM 
tivum robustum, a margine 8-10 mm. remotum con(luen- 
tibus; Peduncitlo quam petiolus tenuiore, eoque (10-15 
cm.) longiore ab latere modice compresso; spa/Z4a late 
lineari-Janceolata, basi haud. decurrente, apice breviter 
acuminata, consistentia firma cartilaginea, diu persisten- 
te; spadice breviter (4-6 mm.) stipitato, subcylindrico, 
sursum leviter attenuato, 8-15 mm. longo, primum albi- 
do, demum sordide virescente; /epa//s obovatis, concavis, 
apice dilatato, umbonato, ovarium obtegentibus; acc« 
globuliformi, apice alba, deorsum rosea, pericarpio cras- 
SO instructa. 
Crescit in silvis subtrop. prope. .Saz Z/orencto. 
Species elegans'. A. zzaeuloso nostro maxime afh- 
nis, nisi forte veluti eiusdem varietas reputanda sit. Dit- 
fert potissimum statura minore et forma limborum. 
Limóis ellipticis, latitudine sua snbduplo longioribus; s&zZive livido tenui cy- 
lindrico 
3 [41*] A. pyrzfolium Sod. sp. nov. late scandens; 
internodiis 4V5-5 ct. longis, vix 3 mm. crassis; ca/afy- 
/lis internodia vaginantibus, mox dissolutis; Pe/ZoZis 1 15- 
255 ct. longis, subcylindricis, supra 1 sulcatis; /7»sbzs sub- 
coriaceis, nitentibus, supra intensius viridibus, ellipticis, 
basi obtusis, apice acutiusculis, 8-10 ct. longis, 45-5 ct. 
latis; cosa utrinque modice prominente obtusa v. leviter 
carinata; z£7725 tenuissimis, in planta viva utrinque im- 
mersis, in sicco prominulis, [I cum II binis ternisve alter- 
nantibus, obnibus in nervum collectivum a margine 4-5 
mm. remotum, quam I paulo crassiorem confluentibus; fe- 
d'unculo ( per anthesin) ad 6 ct. longo, rigidiusculo, an- 
cipit,oo -striato; sPa/4a oblonga, pluri nervia, 2-234 ct 
longa, 7 8 mm. lata basi amplexante, apice subito con- 
tracto mucronulata; sPad'/re sessili, per anthesin 474 5 
ct. longo, ad 4 mm. crasso purpureo-livido; ferzgonio 
rhombeo-tetragono, longitudine sua multo latiore; ova- 
*10 biovulato; s/zgziate vix prominulo 
Crescit ad rupes et arborum truncos in silv. ad fl. 
