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is not entirely useless, as itebaws the parts of fructifi 
- inwhich it is seen, that the club-shaped spadix is not nakel_ 
as in Arum, but covered with the male flowers or anthes” 
disposed in rhomboid masses. EES ae 
Native country not known; it. was brought to this cou- 
try from Madeira, where it it cultivated on account of the 
beauty of its,.leaves, which grow to a much greater sit 
than represented in either of our figures. The plant from 
which our present drawing was taken flowered in June, the 
former one in January. Communicated by Mr. Brooxs, 
of Ball’s Pond. : 
