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82. MEGACLINIOM Bufo ; rachi maximA lanceolata, floribus nigro-pilosis, 
sepalis acutissimis supremo leevi lateralibus intis pubescentibus, petalis 
minimis acutis glabris, labello ovato carnoso rugoso. 
Let the reader imagine a green snake to be pressed flat 
like a dried flower, and then to have a row of toads, or some 
such speckled reptiles, drawn up along the middle in single 
file, their backs set up, their forelegs sprawling right and left, 
and their mouths wide open, with a large purple tongue wag- 
ging about convulsively; and a pretty considerable approach 
will be gained to an idea of this strange plant, which, if 
Pythagoras had but known of it, would have rendered all 
arguments about the transmigration of souls superfluous. It 
is a native of Sierra Leone, whence Messrs. Loddiges received 
it. A figure of it will be published in some future number of 
the Gardener’s Chronicle. 
83. GONATANTHUS sarmentosus (Link, Klotzsch & Otto, p. 33. t. 14.); 
rhizomatibus tuberosis, apice stoloniferis ; foliis membranaceis, peltatis, 
ovatis, brevi-acuminatis, basi cordato-emarginatis, petiolis teretibus, gla- 
bris, albescente-viridibus ; spatha longissima, alutacea, convoluta ; spa- 
dice brevi ; antherarum connectivis apice atropurpureis. 
This is an Araceous plant from India (?) which has been 
raised in the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin. It has leaves 
something like those of the common Wake Robin, but with 
the lobes at the base connate. The spathe is long, dull yellow, 
abruptly bent near the base, and extended into a long narrow 
convolute point. Dr. Klotzsch thus characterizes the new 
genus to which he refers it. 
GONATANTHUS N. Spatha persistens,ad basin globoso-constricta, convo- 
luta, in genu obliquum pollicare dilatato-complanata, antice aperta, apice 
convolutim-transiens, limbo longissimo conyoluto, Spadix liber, brevis, 
interrupte-androgynus, genitalibus rudimentariis infra ovaria et stamina, 
appendice sterili nullo. Anthere: 6, uniloculares, connate, eonnectivo 
crasso, peltato, 6 lobato, breyi stipitato, verticillatim adnate, infra api- 
cem. poro dehiscentes. Pollinis granula lenticularia, minutissime-echi- 
nata. Ovaria plurima, conferta, libera, unilocularia, intus ad apicem ap- 
pendula, basimque appendice centrali, scutelleformi 
fanierdin iowa on conferta, infra scutellam basilarem affixa, e 
licato-deprestam, ie ° mardi orthotropa. Stigma sessile, umbi- 
Herba indica? rhizomate tubercec a: ; = a: 
. e 
peltatis; spatha alutacea, Toso apice stolonifero, foliis tempestivis, 
