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Caudex 3 — 5-"pedalis cyliudricDs. Frons suppetcns 

 11/2 nielri longa. Stipcs crassiis 25 cent. longos, basi 

 21/2 transverse crassns, inaequaliter tetragoniiSj angniis iii- 

 miriim lateralibus acntatis protractis, antico obtuso utrinque 

 in canalem desccudeute, postico obtuso reliqnis majore. Ver- 

 ruculae (qnasi calli ad basin folioloriim observati) paucae 

 ad siipremain stipitis parleni augulis lateralibus impositae. 

 Rhachis crassa, sursara valde attenuata, obtnse tetragona, 

 sensim trigona. Foliola nlriuque fere 70 approximata, in- 

 firaa 26, media 30, suprema 15 — 5 cent. longa, majora 1, 

 minora 1/2 '^^ut. lata, recta vcl (superiora) extrorse subfal- 

 cata; nervis tenuibns parallelis circitcr 15. Basis postica 

 transverse callosa. Conus mas clavato-cjlindricus, 25 cent. 

 longus , inferne 7 — 8, superne 10 cent. crassus. Pedun- 

 culus brevis toraentosus. Rhachis crassa lignosa undique 

 densissime spadicihus ligneae conipagis tecla, qnornm infe- 

 riores minores, sed crassi et aeuraine carentes, abortivi ste- 

 riles, reliqui omnes florentes, sed magnitudine ac forma di- 

 vcrsi; inferiores breviter^ supcriores longiler, snpremi lon- 

 gissirae acuminati. Corpus antJieriferum in sicco liguoso- 

 coriaccura obovato -oblongum, supra vix scrobiculatum, sub- 

 tus inde a basi usqne ad '/s altitudiuis antheris obsitum, an- 

 therarnra area apice biloba ( areis seil, uiriusqne lateris 

 snbconfluentibus). Antherae aurantiaco - lutescentes, singu- 

 lae foveolae iunixae, oblongo - sphaericae. Conus femineus 

 crassior oblongas acuminatus, pedunculo 16 cent. longo 

 toraentoso susteutns, adhuc immaturus 26 cent. longus, basi 

 10 j supra basin 12 cent. crassus. Spadices minore nnmero 

 ac in couo mare, 8 — 9 in singula linea perpendiculari, for- 

 ma ac magnitudine siraili ratione diversi ac mares. Infirai 

 difforracs abortiv!; reliqui pedicellato - peltati , florentinra pe- 



dicello telra liexagono 2 — 21/2 cent, longo ^ sursum in- 



crassato in peitam crassam ovoideo-prismaticam compressam 



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