were of a pale dingy purplifh colour, fcentlefs ; when expanded, 
fomething more than’ the third of an inch in diameter; the 
bra€tes, as far as we could make out, were fometimes two- 
valved, one valve large and ovate, fitted to the lower part of 
the flower, the other minute, placed on one fide; others 
appeared to have only one valve. Our plant has a ftrong 
general refemblance to Oronrium japonicum (fee No. 898 of 
this work); but as we never had an opportunity of infpe€ting a 
flower of that vegetable, we muft leave it to thofe who have 
had, to decide the mutual relations of the two. Orontium 
aquaticum, on which the genus was founded by Linn aus, has 
evidently no generic affinity with japonicum. Mr. R. Brown had 
fuggefted the idea of our plant’s being afemale. We miffed the 
opportunity of feeing any part of the fpecimen except the in- 
florefcence, and that in a very fhattered impeffeét ftate. So 
that we refer, without attempting any further defcription, to the 
adjoining plate for the reft. G. 
