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Tiibus III. BORASSINAE Mart, Endl., Kunth. 



Pinnatifrondes Mart., Endl., Kuntb. 

 Oeonoma Willd., Mart., Eudl., Kuntb. 



©. siuiplicifrons Willd. Caudice arundiuaceo, annn- 

 lato, 3 — 8-pedali; frondibus terminalibus, paucis, obovatis, 

 subraembranaceis, apice bifidis _, basi attennatis, tandem 2 

 — 3 — 4-jnge- pinnatifissis; laciniis oppositis, adnatis, re- 

 motis, falcatis , longissirae-aciiminatis; spadicibus rufo- 

 fuscis gracilibus, simpliler ramosis; ramis tenuibtis 3 — 4, 

 alternis; alveolis margine iutegerrimis, 4 — 5-fariam imbri- 

 catis; baccis parvis, globosis, brevissirae apiculatis, e viridi- 

 nigricantibus, snbruguloso -nitidis. Geonoma simplicifrons 

 Willd. Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences a Berlin 

 1804. p. 39. Spec. plant. IV. p. 594. n. 2. Schumacheriae 

 species Karsten in lit. (Molinillnm Incol.) GconomaWMdc- 

 noivii Klotzsch in Mohl et Schldl. bot. Zeilg. 1846. n. 6. 

 p. 101. 



Caudex arnndinaeeus, annulatus, 3 — 8 ped. longus, 

 semipollicera crassus, radicibus e terra emersis et in conum 

 conniventibus suslentus. Frondes terminales 3 — 4, ainple- 

 xicanles, membrauaceae, laete- virides, obovatae, apice bi- 

 fidac, basi altenuatae, snbtns, praesertim ad rhachin costti- 

 lasque flocculis membranaceis, fuscis secedentibus conspersae, 

 2Va — ^ P 0(1, ' 0U D ae > 7 — 11 pol I. latae, tandem 2-, 3 — 4- 

 juge-pinnatifissae. Laciniae falcatac, longissime acnminatae, 

 ad basin 2 — 3 poll. lafae. Vennlae 4 — 6, inter costulas 

 parallelas. Stipes crassitie pennac anseriuae, pedem longns, 

 trigonns. Spadix simpliciter rainosus, 1 — 1 y, ped. longns. 

 Stipes 6 — 8 poll. longns, rufo -fuscus, crassiludine pcuuae 

 corvinac ad crassitndinem pennae anserinac, riigulosus. Ra- 

 mi 3 — 4 erecto-subdivaricati , alterni, attcnuatim - stipitati > 



