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margin and outer surface as in the leaves, lobule ovate or ovate-oblong, 0.16-0. 18 
mm. long and 0.06-0.07 mm. wide, acute or obtuse to truncate, irregularly den- 
ticulate, outer surface more or less roughened from projecting cells at least in 
the vicinity of the keel; perianth broadly obovoid, about 0.3 mm. long and 0.22 
mm. wide, bluntly five-keeled in the upper part when young, strongly inflated 
and practically without keels at maturity, beakless, surface to below the middle 
strongly roughened from projecting cells: $ inflorescence terminal on a more or 
Fig. 1. Part of a plant with a perianth and an unfertilized female inflorescence, ventral 
view, x 100. 
Fig. 2. Part of a plant with a female inflorescence and a male inflorescence, ventral view, 
x 100. 
Fig. 3. Part of a sterile branch, ventral view, x 100. 
Fig. 4. Cells from the middle of a lobe, x 300. 
Fig. 5. Apex of a lobule, x 300. 
Figs. 6, 7. Bracts from a single inflorescence, x 100. 
Fig. 8. Cells from the lobe of a bract, optical section, x 300. 
Fig. 9. Gemma, x 300. 
The figures were all drawn from the type specimen with the exception of Fig. 2, which was 
drawn from No. 5257- 
