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inonandii, reliqui ad squamulas reducti ; flosculus iutimus femineus 

 squamulam sterilem amplectens. Squamulae laterales carinato-com- 

 pressae. Ovarium basi stipitiformi-attenuatura ; stylus trifidus. Ach- 

 aenium longe stipitatum, rostratum, pericarpio carnosulo, nucleo 

 lapideo. — Hcrba perennis liabitu omnino P andanophyllorum, sed pliyllis 

 involucrantibus longissimis etiam adspecta diver 'sa. 



1. C. macrOCephaltLS, Kwz. — Hypolytvum macroceplialuni, 

 Gaud, in Freijc. Jt. Pot. 414 ;\Xth. En. II. 273 ; Steucl, Gyp. 133. 



Hab.- : Moluccos ; Gaudicliaud ; ib. isl. Batjan ; Teysmann. (in 

 Hb. Pog.) 



Eliizoma Folia Culmi trigoni, glabri, pedales, basi pauci- 



foliati. Spicae semipollicares, majusculae, plurimae, inaequali- 

 oblongae, compressiusculae, glomeratae ; glomeruli pliyllis singulis 

 sustenti in capitulara involucratum pollicem dein 1^ poll, crassum 

 compacti. Involucri pliylla inferiora 3 — 4, pedalia v. longiora, poll, 

 lata, lato-linearia, subulato trigono-acuminata, trinervia, marginibus 

 rectangulariter deviis, margine costaque subtus apicem versus spinu- 

 loso-serrulata, subcoriacea, pliylla sequentia mox in bracteas glomerulis 

 ipsis minores lato-ovatas acuminatas transeuntia. Squamae undique 

 imbricatae pellucescente-cliartaceae, oblongo-lanceolatae, obtusius- 

 eulae, trinerviae, glabrae, nitentes ; inferiorum nonnullae vacua e, 

 reliquae spiculam 7 — 10— floram includentes. Spiculae lineares, com- 

 pressae, squama longiores. Flosculus intimus excentricus femineus 

 uni-squamulatus, squamulam sterilem amplectens ; flosculi sequentes 

 3 v. 3 alii extimi masculi, monandri, uni-squamulati, reliqui ad squa- 

 mulas vacuas reducti. Squamulae laterales compresso-naviculares, 

 carina ciliatae, medianae depressae. Ovarium sublagenaeforme, utrin- 

 que angustatum, glabrum ; stylus longus, persistens, trifidus, ramis 

 elongatis. Acliaenia oblonga, basi in stipitem longum gracilem at- 

 tenuata, tricarinata, stylo persistente longe acuminato-rostrata (ros- 

 trum achaenium longitudine paullo superans), pericarpio carnosulo, 

 (in sicco tenui coriaceo) glabro testaceo, nucleo lapideo nigrescente. 



I Lave not Glaudicliaud's work above cited for consultation, but I think 

 I am correct in quoting bis plant fromKunth's and Steudel's descriptions. 



VI. SCIEPODENDRON, ZlPPELIUS. 



Spicae glomerato-paniculatae, compactae, undique squamatae. Squa- 

 mae emarcescente persistentes, inferiores saepius tri — superiores uni- 



