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Calla ^Ethiopica. Ethiopian Calla. 

 # 4 r* "%-% ^hMNhNhNs- ♦♦♦♦ 



C/^/i a«</ Order. 



Gynandria Polyandria. 

 Moncecia Monandria. Schreb. 



Generic Characlcr. 



Spatha plana. Spadix tec"ius flofculis. G*/. o. Petala o. 

 Bacc* polyfpermce. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



CALLA JEthiopica ,- foliis fagittato-cordatis, fpatha cucullata 



fpadice fuperne mafculo. Sp. Pi. 1373. Hort. Cliff. 



435. Reichard. 4. 75. Lederm. Micro/. 37. /. 18. 



19. <?<///. Gallic. 44. GVr/. Frucl. 2. 20. /. 84./. 2. 



Mar/. Mr"//. Did. n. 1. //or/. A>ze\ 3. 318. 

 ARUM JEthiopicum y flore albo odorato. Comm. Hort. 1. p. 



95. /. 50. 

 ARUM americanum, ari vulgaris facie, foliis carnofis. Mich. 



Flor. 9. /. 2. 



The female flowers, which are confined to #)e lower part 

 of the fpadix, confift in this fpecies of a conical germen ter- 

 minated by a truncated black-purple fligma. 



The male flowers are both intermixed with the female, and 

 occupy entirely the whole of the fuperior part of the fpadix, 

 without any intermediate fpace. 



Miller, who is generally a very accurate obferver, fays 

 that the piftils and ftamens are fo intermixed as not to be 

 eafily diftinguifhable without the aid of glafTes, and that a 

 few of the flowers fituate near the extremity of the fpadix 

 are fucceeded by berries, but we find the piftils and confe- 

 quently the berries^ll at the bafe of the fpadix, the upper 



part 





