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ARUM orixense. 
Orissa Cuckow-point. 
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MON(ECIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AROIDEE, Jussieu gen. 33. Div. I. Spadix spathà invo- 
lutus. 
AROIDES (includentes tam TYPHAS quam AROIDEAS Jus- 
sieuii). Brown prod..1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio (calyce 
nob.) nullo. Arcidea vere. - 
ARUM. Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadiz apice 
nudus, medio staminifer, Re eris multiserialibus; - basi femineus: sæpiùs 
Staminibus pistillisve sterilibus fertilibus approximatis. Bacee uniloculares, 
polyspermæ, Semina parieti altero inserta. Radicula umbilico obversa. 
Brown prod. 1. 335. 
Div. Acaulia foliis simplicibus, 
A. orixense, foliis hastato-tripartitis, spathà pedunculatä bicolori spadice 
longiore: apice lanceolato deflexo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2: 5. 309. 
Arum orixense. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. ined. — Andrews's repotit. 
356. Brown prod. 1. 336. Carey hort. beng. $n loc. 
Perenne, acaule, radice tuberosá subanfractuoso-rotundatá, albá, mag- 
nitudine circitór ovi pullastrini minoris, fibris circa gemma matricem cri- 
nitä. Folia radicalia, petiolata, profundo trilobata, 8-10-uncialía, lobis 
ovatis acuminatis repandis nervo geminato peripheria proximé parallelo à 
* parte supiná circumdatis: petioli teretes erecti attenuati striati 12-unciales, 
basi convoluto-vaginantes. Scapus azillaris (subterraneus) pro tanto dun- 
taxat elongatus ut spatham proximé extra humum sublevet. Spatha petiolis 
brevior striata erecta, intüs rubro colorata, extús herbacea. $ bast 
(femineus) germinibus congestis indéque contiguo suprà contectus filamentis 
sterilibus ramosis, medio antheris aggregato-circumdantibus extumescens, 
indè supra iteràm filamentorum priorum consimilium annulo! crinitus; clavà 
nudá coccineá subulatá spadicem totum reliquam «quante basi. latiore subtus- 
que concavá terminatus. Roxb. MSS, (ex angl. versum). . ` 
The species has been observed by Dr. Roxburgh in the 
East Indies and by Mr. Brown in New Holland; and was 
introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1802; but still continues 
to be exceedingly rare in our collections. The drawing was 
taken by Mr. Herbert from a plant that flowered last autumn 
in the hothouse of his Botanic Garden at Spofforth, a source 
from which numerous rare plants are finding their way 
among the curious. 
Among Dr. Roxburgh’s unpublished drawings in the 
Banksian Library there. is a coloured representation of this 
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