es that of the stipes. The whole plant is more slender, its 
frond far narrower, and much more acuminated than that of 
O. vulgatum. The reticulation of the leaf, which is chiefly 
apparent in the dried specimen, exists equally in both species. 
The figure of Rumphius, in the Herbarium Amhoinense 
(v. 6. t. 68. f. 2.) which is cited by Willdenow, as a syno- 
nym to his O. ovatum, seems scarcely different from O. vulga- 
tum, the shape of its frond being almost precisely similar. 
Fig. 1. Plant, natural size, drawn from the living individual. Fig. 2. Figure 
drawn from a dried specimen and. Fig. 3. Barren frond, natural size. 
Fig. 4. Portion of a spike. Fig. 5. Cluster of seeds. Fig. 6, Seeds.-^ 
More or less magnified. 
