I. H. ECUADORENSIS. 8I 
liato v. distiche bibracteato, supra folium vel bracteam 
superiorem 5-8 ct. ongo, subterete, cum rudimento, al- 
terius inflorescentiaé in axilla bracteae inferioris; sPa/4a 
coriacea subelliptica, arcte convoluta, apice breviter acu- 
minata, oblique decidua; spadice breviter (4-5 mm.) sti- 
pitato, cylindraceo, 12-15 ct. longo, ad 12 mm. crasso; 
fa mentis anguste linearibus; Pzs/Z//zs prismatico-hexa- 
gonis; s/y/o ad 2 mm. longo, 4 3 mm. crasso, apice mo- 
dice convexo, medio stigmatifero-(ovula et semina in 
spadice nincedine pereso, recognoscere non licuit; hinc 
dubium an huic generi, cui praecipue ob habitus simili- 
tudinem adscribimus, revera pertineat). 
Crescit in silv. tropic. prov. Esmeraldas. 
G. 12 HETEROPSIS KUNTH. 
Flores, in spadice stipitato, innappendiculato, nudi, 
sessiles; s/a;z. 4, filamentis late linearibus, antheris 2 the- 
cis, apice dehiscentibus; ovcarzu» obpyramidato-prisma- 
ticum, apice truncato, medio stigmatiferum, superne bi- 
loculari; Jocz/zs biovulatis; ovzzs anatropis, erectis, pla- 
centae basi septo adnatae affixis. 
Frutices scandentes ramosi; /oZzzs alternis. vagina 
petioli axi adnata petiolo (seu geniculc) brevi; ZJazzzza 
subcoriacea lanceolata, oblonga, v. oblongo-elliptica; sga- 
dice pedunculato stipitato cylindraceo; spatha brevi, con- 
voluta, apiculata, mox caduca. ! 
| H. Feuadoreusis sp. nov. cazfelignoso, scandente, 
ramoso; ramzs tenuibus, striolatis, basi persistente folio- 
rum delapsorum annulatis; Zw£eruodz:s 3-4 ct. longis; 
fetiolis (seu geniculis) 3-4 mm. longis, basi amplectenti- 
bus, sursum compressis in sicco convolutis; /2z707s sub- 
