Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Excerpt from Descriptions of Three Hundred New Species of South American Plants: With an Index to Previously Published South American Can Species by the Same Author
Staminate Plant - Glabrous, the branchlets slender, finely sulcate, the internodes about 5 cm. Long. Petioles about 15 mm. Long, slender, slightly broader toward the summit, narrowly channelled. Blades 5 to 7 cm. Long, to 4 cm. Broad, ovate, the base from truncate to very shallowly and broadly cordate, . Acuminate and attenuate at the summit, very thin, 5 to 7 nerved, the venation very finely reticulate. Racemes numer ous, 7 to 10 cm. Long, very slender, short-peduncled, bearing the flowers mostly 2 together on a slender peduncle about as long as the pedicels or a little shorter and subtended by a scari ous lanceolate bract, nearly as long as itself. Pedicels about mm. Long, slender, the flower nearly 3 mm. Broad, the peri gone lobes nearly twice the length of the tube, lance-ovate, obtuse. Stamens 6, distinct except at the very base, the slender filaments as long as the perigone-tube, the anther-cells con tiguous. Staminodia none.
Pistillate Plant - Racemes 15 to 20 cm. Long, slender, loosely flowered, slenderly peduncled. Flowers sessile or the short pedicels adnate to the rachis, the bractlets ovate, scarious, about mm. Long. Ovary 5 mm. Long, linear, pubescent, the perigone 2 mm. Broad, the tube crateriform, ribbed, the lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Defective stamens 6. Three styles united, except at the summit, Where they are 2-lobed. Fruit 18 mm. Long, IO mm. Broad, elliptical, light-brown, glabrous, tipped by the persistent perigone.
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