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 Calla aromatica. Aromatic Calla. 



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C/ass «nrf Order. 

 Mongecia Monandbia. ScJireber. 

 Heptandria Monogynia. WiUd. 



Generic Character. 



Spatha plana. Spadix tectus flosculis. Cal. 0. Cor.O. 

 Bacca polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Calla aromatica ; caulescens, subsagittato-cordatis acumi- 

 natis : lobis rotimdatis divaricatis, spatha cymbaeformi 

 spadicem basi femineum suboccultante. 



Calla aromatica. Roxb. Fl. Ind. orient, nondum edita. 



Calla occulta. Lodd. Cab. 12. vix Loureiri. 



Dracunculus amboinicus. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 322. t. 111. 

 f.2? 



Our drawing was taken in July 1813, from a plant that 

 flowered at that time in Sir Abraham Hume's stove at 

 Wormleybury ; Messrs. Loddiges and Sons also raised it 

 about the same time from seeds, sent by Dr. Roxburgh 

 under the name of Calla aromatica; but finding very 

 little scent in the flowers, and conceiving it to answer to 

 Loureiro's description of Calla occulta they adopted that 

 name. But as it does not altogether accord with the charac- 

 ters given in the Flora cochinehinensis, aud it is likely to 

 be published under the name of aromatica in Roxburgh's 

 Flora, we prefer the latter appellation. 



About two thirds of the spadix were occupied by the 

 stamens, and one third at the base with the pistils. Dr. 

 Roxburgh states that these pistils are mixed with abortive 

 stamens ; of which we could observe none in our specimen, 



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