ce TETRANDRIA, MONOGYNTA. 105 
¢ ppickly covered with minute Gecar leaves; flowers axil- 
Species. 1. €. glabra? Said to have been found on 
the American sea-coast.— \ genus of 4 species, (Persoon) 
inhabiting arid soils in Spain, Tartary, Italy, Helvetia? 
and the Cape of Good Hope. r 
| 157, SYMPLOCARPUS. Salisbury. Pormos fee- 
tida, Mich. (Skunk-cabbage.) 
Spatha ventricose-ovate, acuminate. Spadiar 
roundish, covered with hermaphrodite flowers, 
Calix deeply 4-parted, persistent, segments cu- 
cullate, truncate, becoming thick and spongy. 
Petals 0. Style pyramidal, 4-sided; stigma sim- 
“ple, minute, Sveds solitary, immersed in the 
spongy receptacle. 
Stemless and, subaquatic; leaves -very large, strongly 
veined and entire, preceded by conspicuous sheathing 
stipules; scapes radical, appearing before the leaves; spa- 
tha discoloured; calix, style, and filaments persistent, en- 
sing with the spongy receptacle. 
Root verticillately fibrous, truncate. Leaves smooth, 
and green, ovate-cordate, enlarging, protected by large 
glaucous, spathulate-linguiform, veiniess bractes. Spa. 
tha oyoid, roundish, cucullate, obhiquely acuminate, point 
Coarctate, plaited, involutely auriculate at the base, thick 
and spongy, livid purple, blotched and. spotted with pale 
_ green. Spadix pedunculate, simple,!most spherical. Brac- 
tes none. Flowers tessellately imBficate, adnate. Calix 4- 
parted, divided to the base, segments cucullate, compres- 
| . "sed at the apex, emarginated, at length becoming very 
thick. Petais none. Stamina 4, opposite the divisions of 
the calix; filaments subulate, flat; anthers exserted, short, 
pa, = gebtees Q-celled. Style thick, quadrangular, acumi- 
~. natéd; stigma minute, pubescent, shorter than the sta- 
mina. Germ immersed, l-seeded.. Seed naked, large, 
round, inclosed in the common receptacle. Corculum 
Small, involute, erect, umbilicately attached to a large so- 
ee lid, carneous perisperm-f " 
C—O 
+ The seed of the Symplocarpus does ‘not appear to possess eee 
like a proper cotyledon, the embryo formed inthe 
: ;not from it in any particular but that of size. In 
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