C 1488 ] 



Tacca integrifolia. Entire-leaved 



Tacca. 



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Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. fupera, fexpartita, regularis, perfiftens. Filamcnta ban* 

 laciniarum corolla inferta, dilatata, fupra cucullata (inflexo- 

 fornicata. G.) G>?w» uniloculare, placentis tribus parietalibus, 

 polyfpermis. Stylus trifulcus. Stigmata 3, dilatata. Bacca 

 polyTperma. Semina ftriata, albuminofa. Embryo minutus, m 

 regione umbilici. Brown Prod. Flor. Nov. Holland. 1. 340. 



Obs. Herbas glabra:. Radix tulerofa frhizomatofa. G.) Folia 

 omnia radicalia palmata v. bipinnatifida, DracontII polyphyUi itiftafy 

 (quandoque integra. G.) Scapus radicalism indivijus. Umbella term* 

 rtalis, [implex : Involucro polyphylh, foliaceo : Pedunculis//Vj (peduncuhs 

 Jlerilibus ? ) intermijlis. Brown loc. cit. 



Specific CharaSler, 



TACCA integrifolia; foliis petiolatis, lamina ovato-lanceolata y 

 integra, nervo medio depreflb alios remotiufculos oblique 

 parallelos utrinque emittcnte. G. 



As we had no opportunity of feeing the plant from which our 

 drawing was made, we fhall not attempt to add any further 

 defcription to that contained in the generic and fpecific characters. 

 In the former of thefe, at the fuggeftion of Mr. Brown, WC 

 have omitted that part which related to the anthers, as inappli- 

 cable to the prefent fpecies. In the BankTian library we have 

 feen a drawing of it done in India, in which the Item is upright, 

 fo that we ihould infer that its recumbent pofition in our fpecimen 

 was accidental ; perhaps the effecl of artificial culture ? An 

 unrecorded fpecies ; lately fcnt from the Eaft-Indies by Dr. 

 Roxburgh to Sir Abraham Hume, in whofe hot-houfe at 

 Wormleybury it bloflbmed in June laft, probably for the firft 

 time in Europe. Mr. Brown obferves, that the genus is inter- 

 mediate between the Aroide.'e and AristolociujE. G, 



