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tecta. Spadix nullus.—Masc: Stamina intermedia: Fila- 
menta basi articulata, superne dilatata peltata: Antherarum 
loculi 6—8, ovales, medio poro dehiscentes. Fam: Pistilla 
marginalia: Germen ovatum, l-ovulatum, ovulo erecto: 
Stylus superne incrassatus: Stigma subcapitatum. 
Spathicarpa hastifolia. (Tas. LXXVII.) 
Radix a me non visa. Folium solitarium, radicale, longe 
petiolatum, hastato-trilobum, membranaceum, reticulato- 
venosum; lobo medio ovato-acuminato, lateralibus hori- 
zontaliter patentibus, oblongis, obtusis, subinzequilaterali- 
bus, omnibus glaberrimis, integerrimis. Petiolus spitha- 
meus et ultra, gracilis, basi in vaginam latam membrana- 
ceam circumvolutam dilatatus. Scapus folio longior, 
gracilis, teres, erectus, e vagina petioli erumpens, soli- 
tarius. Spatha terminalis, vix digitem longa, lato-linearis, 
seu lineari-oblonga, subcymbiformis, basi attenuata, apice 
acutissime acuminata, longitudinaliter nervosa, nervis 
venis anastomosantibus, marginibus involutis; intus 
linea media longitudinali florifera. Flores nudi, masculi 
et fimminei, cum staminibus sterilibus lentiformibus im- 
mixti. Stamina mediam partem linez floriferee occu- 
pantia, Filamenta tuberculo parvo convexo articulata, 
peltata, carnosa, apice tri-rarius-quadrangulari, truncata, 
paulo infra marginem antherifera: Anthere 6-8, dis- 
crete, liberze, ovales, pallide-flave, subcarnosæ, medio . 
poro solitario dehiscentes. Pistilla marginalia. Germen 
ovatum, glabrum, stylo subæque longo apice incrassato : 
Stigma obtusum, subcapitatum. Fructus: Bacca, —vix 
matura,sovato-globosa. Semen unicum ad basin loculi, 
erectum, ovatum. 
Haz, In America meridionali, prope flumen Uraguay. D. 
It was not till I examined, with some degree of care, the 
fructification of this plant, that I recognized any thing remark- 
able about it, or any thing that would indicate a structure 
different from that of other Aroidee, or even of Arum itself. 
It was then, however, that I perceived there was no spadiz, 
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