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SPATHICARPA Hook. 
Spatlia vegeto-persistens , oblongo -lanceolata, aeuminata, pedunculo decurrens, primum 
convoluta, sub anthesi, basi et apice exceptis, explanata, apiee recurva , post fecimdationem 
arrecta marginibus conniventibus. Spadix cum spathae costa omnino connatus, spatlia breyior, 
androgynus, lloribus seriatim dispositis, seriebus duabus extimis femineis, medianis duabus 
masculis. Flores masculi: Stamina 2 — 4 in synandrium stipitatum connata, stipite elongato 
inferne tereti tenni, vertice peltato-umbonato, ibique nectarifero. Antherae connectivo communi 
sub vertice stipitis insertae, thecis stipiti appensis superne leviter sulcatis, ellipsoideis vel sub- 
cordatis, omnibus contiguis majuseulis, sub apice poro laterali dehiseentibus. Pollen in farci- 
minulis propidsum, granulis ellipsoideis laevibus. Flores feminei: Staminodia 3, gibbosa, bre- 
vissime stipitata, ovario aceumbentia. Ovarium lata basi insidens, in stylum columnarem sensim 
attenuatum, uniloculare, nniovulatum, ovulo in fnndo sublaterali, subsessili erecto, ortbotropo. 
Stigma depresso-hemisphaerienm. Fructns baccatus, baecis minutis conoideis vel ovoideis, stylo 
persistente apiculatis, demum exsueeis, deciduis. Semina funiculo brevissimo, eonoidea vel ovoidea, 
hilo punctiformi, chalaza crassa discolore, parte radiculari prominula, albuminosa. Embryo 
albumine copioso carnoso inclusus, tereti conoideus. 
Fterbae Amerieae anstralis tuberosae, e tubere minuto simplici paucis secundariis auetis 
eataphylla pauea, folia nonnulla scaposque coetaneos emittentes. Cataphylla vaginiformia hypo- 
gaea vel partim epigaea. Folium primarium stirpis germinantis petiolatum cordatum; folia 
stirpis floridae in tnrione 5 — 8, semipedalia, petiolata ; petioli longiuscnli, supra canaliculato- 
sulcati, basi vaginantes, lamina cordato-ovata, vel e basi cordata lanceolata aut hastata, nervis 
lateralibus pseudonervos 2 — 4 constituentibus, pseudonervo intimo a margine remoto. Pedun- 
culus folia superans, tenuis. Spatlia laete viridis. 
Spathicarpa Hook, in Bot. Miscell. II, p. 147. Tab. 77 (1831). Schott Meletem. I, p. 20. Endl. Gen. pl. p. 238. 
Kth. Emmi. III, p. 52. Schott Gen. Aroicl. p. 67. Syn. Aroid. p. 124. Prodr. Aroid. p. 342. Engler. Arac. I. c. p. 210. 
Schott Msc. 
SPATHICARPA LONGICUSPIS Schott, 
Tabula 12. 
Sp. foliorum petiolis lamina subaequilongis vel interdum longioribus, lamina oblonga vel lanceolata, 
apice longe aeuminata, basi subtnincata vel sagittato-cordata , auriculis obtnsissimis retrorsis; spatlia 
longissime cuspidata, latitudine sua 8plo longiore; androecei pileo 3—4 lobato, lobis rotundatis. 
Spathicarpa longicusp is Schott in Bonplandia 1862, p. 124. 
Engler Arac. I. c. p. 211 (sub Spathicarpa sagittifolia 
Schott). Schott Msc. 
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