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culatis, 2 — 5 polL longa, basi diametro transversali 1,0—2,5 

 poll. longo, apice lobi baseos ab altero alterias lobi explanati 

 3,0 poll. distante, cordata, cordato-ovata s. oblonga, nunc 

 sagittata imoque basi haud cordata, ovato- s. oblongo-hastata 

 (Bl.) ; in juvenilibus cordato-ovata aut subreniformia ; apice 

 acuta aut obtusa, nunc paullo pioductiore vix cuspidata, basi 

 sinu plerumque profundo, rarius in hastatis tantum levi (Bl.) 

 inter lobos praedita, baseos lobis plerumcjue conniventibus, 

 cucullatim sibi margine interiore obtegentibus, nunc contiguis 

 aut imo paiillo divaricatis, plerumque rotundatis aut obtusis, 

 sagittatis nunc magis elongatis acutis aut acuminatis; pe- 

 dunculi vix quartam petiolorum partem longi (1,5 — 2,5 poll.), 

 primo virides, in et ante anthesin rosei, postremo rubentes, 

 erecti, stricti in anthesi; fructiferi pauilo longiores cernui; 

 spatha 3 — 6 poll. longa, ante anthesin spadicem totum arcte 

 involvens, vii^idis glabra, basi inflata; 4 — 5-gono-subgiobosa, 

 0,4 — 0,6 poll. longa et lata; supra basin hanc angustata cylin- 

 drica 0,2 — 0,5poll. longa, sub-4— 5-gona, 0,2 — 0,3 poU. crassa 

 recta; Hmbus spadicem arcte includens, primo rectus,basi recur- 

 vus et supra basin ensiformi-curvatus, a basi ad apicem subu- 

 liformem sensim attenuatus, 3,0 — 4,5 poll. longus, in anthesi 

 erectus, marginibus subinvolutis , postridie patens explanatus 

 et postremo refractus magis magisque jflavescens tenerrimus, 

 7-nervius, foetens, basi 1,0 poll. latus, marginibus revolutis 

 et ab apice dein spiraliter revolutus ; post anthesin emarcidus 

 deciduus; spathae tuhus j)ost anthesin inferiore hasi (vid. supra) 

 inflata, globoso-ovata, sub-4 — 5-gona, diametro 0,4 — 0,6 poU., 

 convoluta, clausa, parte superiore constricta, subcomplanato- 

 cylindrica 0,4 — 0,6 poU. longa, convoluta clausa, persistens 

 vegetus (nec emarcidus Bl.) ; fructifer acute 4 — 5-angularis, 

 angulis dorsalibus magis prominulis; spadix 2,8 — 5,5 poU. 

 longus; appendix 2,0 — 4,5 poU. longa, basi lineis obsessa ele- 

 vatis angustissimis, tuberculato-cristatis, sulcos latos inter se 

 constituentibus; pars forifera albida suaveolens ; stamina 

 spadicis partem floriferum superiorem, 0,2 poU. longum, dense 

 obtegentia, in phalanges regulariter clisposita; filamciita cum 



