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CALADIUM odorum. 
Apple-scented Caladium. 
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MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AROIDEE. Jussien gen. 23. Div. I. Spadix spathá involutus. 
AROIDEX (includentes et Typhas et Aroideas Jussi.). Brown 
1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio nulló. Aroi- 
dee vere. n RAR: 
CALADIUM. Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta, Spadir 
ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quandòque nudo; medio glandnlosus; basi 
germinibus tectus. Antheræ peltatæ, sub peltá ad ambitum multilocularés. 
Glandule (stamina sterilia) obtusæ. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca mono- 
sperma? Brown prod. 1. 336. : 
OBS. An omnes v. plures Baccd monosperma instructæ sint in posterum 
determinandum. Br. l c. 
C. odoratum, caudescens; foliis cordatis, basi bifidis, lobis rotundatis, po- 
dunculis axillaribus geminis, spadice spatham cymbiformem aquante 
cum apice staminifero unam-tertiam partem longitudinis suc occupante : 
baccis 1-4-spermis. Roxburgh MSS. ; (ex anglico versum.) 
Radix è fibris. crassis longè reptantibus, absque tamen bulbillis in 
indico, ceterum simillimo, frequentibus. Caudex simplex, rectus, cicatri- 
zatus, intra bienniwm altitudinem bipedalem (cum foliis simul orgyalem ) 
cum diametro brachii humani acquirens. Fol. caulina, petiolata, lamina 
ovato-cordatá pedes i -A longá 2-3 latá, glabratá, basi fissá, apice obtusá cum 
mucrone recurvo, lobis rotundatis repandis, costá nervisque crassis subtis 
varicosis; petiolus viridis, 2-3-pedalis, totus à dimidio inferiore vaginans, 
indè cylindricus glabratus. Pedunculi 1-Aori, per paria axillares, subte- 
retes, petiolo subbreviores, bracteis spathaceis distincti. Spatha erecta, 
glabra, pallidé virens, infernè crassa, ventricosa, convoluta, persistens, su- 
perè cymbiformis eum acumine brevi, caduca. Spadix spatie subequalis 
subcylindrica; apex staminiger & circitér totius longitudinis tenens, medium 
constrictum glandulis planis rhomboideis obsitum, basis conica germinibus 
tecta: antheræ numerosa, rhombiformes, ad ambitum 10-12-loculares, locu- 
lis apice fissurä externá dehiscentibus: germina numerosa, 4-locularia, ovulis 
2-3 in loculo quoque, fundo affizis: stylus O: stig. subrotundum. „Bacc» 
numerose, magnitudine Cerasi minoris, pro seminum numero varié rotun- 
date, glabra, nitide, coccinea, uniloculares, omni septorum vestigio in- 
crescentibus seminibus obliterato: semina sepius 1-4, subrotunda, glabra; 
integumentum simplex, recens molle atque spongiosum: albumen semini con- 
forme: embryo simplex obconicus fine folioli exterioris plumukx obtuso juzta 
apicem seminis denudato. Roxburgh MSS. (ex anglico versum.) 
The diminished representation of the entire plant was 
done by Mr. Gowen, by whom the sample was communi- 
cated from which the rest of the drawing was taken of the 
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