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74 FIELDIANA: BOTANY, VOLUME 28
flowers fallen, but occupying most of the sunken depressions of the
rachis; pistillate flowers scattered on the branches: calyx longer
and enveloping the corolla, tubular, the short broadly subtriangular
lobes minutely apiculate; corolla scaly-pubescent within, sparsely
short-appressed setulose without, many-striate; bract suborbicularovate,
acuminate, 0.5 mm. long, 0.8-0.9 mm. wide, glabrous; young
fruit or ovary pyriform, 8-9 mm. long, attenuate at apex and base
(Fig. 9).
Type in herb. Chi. Nat. Hist. Mus., collected in forest near Base
FIGURE 9
Bactris duidae Steyermark
A. Frond (X1/10);B, Inflorescence with spathe (Xl/10); C, Pistillate
flower (X 3); D, Pistillate perianth opened (X 3);