Chavica Miq. 105 



leviter canallculato, ima basi breviter vaginanti et semi-am- 

 plexicauli, e stipulis minutis intrafbliaceis connatis et pctiolo 

 adnatis lingulam brevissimam formantibus sufFulta, obliqua basi 

 valde inaequalia, subcordata, oblonga, oblongo-lanceolata aut 

 elliptico-oblonga, acuminata, aut acuta, 10 — 15 cntm. longa, 

 3,5 — 8,5 cntm. lata; nervus medius in foliis juvenilibus supra 

 magis quam subtus rubescens; gemmae in foliorum axillis 

 horum stipulis op])Ositifoliis in vaginam caducam, 1,2 — 1,7 

 cntm. longam, a lateribus subcomplanatum linearem acutam, 

 antice (in latere folio opposito petiolum spcctante) fissam 

 rubentem, apice viridiusculam connatis inclusae, e folio unico 

 involuto cum spadicis rudimento, 0,2 cntm. longo constantcs; 

 follorum juvenlllum paglna utraque nitens, dein inferior opaca, 

 superior atro-viridis ; amenta primo (In gemma) termlnalla, 

 ramo axlllari cclerlter excrescente lateralia opposltlfolia ; jie- 

 dunculi 1,0 — l,5cntm. longl patentes in ramis horizontallbus, 

 imoque erecti aut verticales (nec horizontales Mlq. 1. c. 260 

 specimen Perottetlanum); amenta pistilligera et staminigera 

 prlma juventute confomila, haec tantum paullo tenuiora; 

 amenta staminigera deln 7 cntm. longa, 0,5 cntm. vix crassa 

 apice paullo tenuiora, recta, stricta, cf. specim. Phlllppense 

 Miq. I. c. 262; bracteae pileatae, stiplte brevi, tenul, teretl, 

 recto subexcentrico suffultae, juventute imbrlcatae, orbiculatae, 

 marglne superiore superiorls bracteae marglnem inferiorem 

 obtegentes, virldes, ad basln stlpltis stamlna 2 gerentcs, su- 

 pra umbonatae vlridcs, margine hyallnae, subtus subplanae, 

 antherarum loculls primo albidis, apertls dein fuscls, seniores 

 supra orblculato-trigonae , umbonatae , supra laeves glabrae, 

 nitldae, In anthesi flavescentes, margine membranaceo palli- 

 diore, subtus flavescenti-albldae, concavae, glabrae; rhachis 

 glabra ; stamina bractcas clngentla plerumque 6 — 8 ad brac- 

 team quamque, quarum plurlma ad bracteas collaterales per- 

 tinent, erecta, bractels brevlora, seml-exserta ; filamenta bre- 

 vla, teretla, rccta, crassa, inclusa ; antJierae connectivum aplce 

 obsolete bllobum, lucldulum, flavescentl-virlde ; pollen . . . .? 

 amenta pistilligera in anthesl 2 cntm. longa, matura 4,0 — 5,5 



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