petioles, which then curve upwards, and bear the small, delicate, 
peltate /eaf. From the slightly sheathing bases of these petioles 
arise one or two scapes, little more than half the length of the 
petiole, terminated by a slightly drooping, cymbiform, carinate, 
purple-brown, acute syatha. The lower part of the spadix is 
mcorporated with the deep purple-coloured spatha, and bears the . 
green ovaries: the upper is purple, club-shaped and substipitate, 
and bears the yellow sessile authers arranged in a circle within 
the cup-shaped cavities: the whole spadix is shorter than the 
spatha. The free portion of the spadix then withers and the 
ovaries become greatly enlarged, when the weight occasions the 
scapes to bend down towards the ground, sometimes becoming 
more or less spiral, and thus giving still more the appearance of 
a Cyclamen. ‘The immature éerry is nearly dry, having no pulp 
within, and very numerous seeds are arranged in two rows along 
as many placentz as there are angles and stigmas, 3-5. 
The name is doubtless from doy, the Arum, united with éyis, 
implying resemblance, from its close affinity with the genus Arum. 
Fig. 1. Side view, and 2, frond view (or nearly so) of the spadix and spatha, 
the base of the former incorporated with the base of the latter. 3. Vertical sec- 
tion of the antheriferous portion of the spadix. 4. Circle of anthers in the 
foramen. 5. Single anther. 6. Pistils. 7. Nearly mature fruits on the withery 
spadix and spatha. 8. Transverse section of scarcely mature fruit. 9. Vertical 
section of ditto. 10. Seed and podosperm. 11. Embryo:—all more or less 
magnified. 
