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Contributions to the Botany of WESTERN INDIA ; 
by N. A. DALZELL, Esq., M.A. 
(Continued from p. 114.) 
Nat. Ord. AROIDEZ. 
LAGENANDRA, Dalz.—Genus novum Cryptocoryneas et 
Dracunculineas conjungens. 
Spatha basi tubulosa, medio fisso subclauso, a medio valde attenuata 
subulata, valva tubum subclaudente, cum spadicis vertice mucronato 
connata.  Spadix inclusus, interrupte androgynus, medio nudus fili- 
formis. Stamina plurima in spadicis apice hemisphærico conferta, 
sessilia, spiraliter disposita; antheræ didymæ, biloculares, loculi lagenæ- 
formes, pollen ex lagenæ colli tenuis apice evadens. Ovaria plurima 
circa spadicis basin verticillata, iera, obconica, pressione mutua 
angulata, circa apicem molliter echinulata, unilocularia, ovula 4-8 
in placenta basilari erecta. Stigma sessile, planum, discoideum, 5- 
gonum, papillosum. Capsule (mature) carnosulæ, in apice scapi 
confertæ, caput diametro pollicare efformantes; semina cylindrico- 
oblonga, sulcata, hilo carnoso, integumentum seminis solubile; em- 
bryo in albumine copioso corneo cylindrieus.— Herba paludosa seu 
aquatica 3-pedalis, rhizomate repente crasso simplici perennans. Folia 
longe petiolata, oblonga, obtusa, integerrima, margine undulata, nervo 
medio valido utrinque nervos secundarios tenuissimos exserente ; vaginæ 
stipulares oppositifoliæ, libere, acuminate, dorso carina duplici in- 
structa, petioli teretes longissimi (non vaginantes). Scapi axillares, 
solitarii, compressi, 2-6-uuciales. Spatha scapo paulo longior, extus 
carneo-olivacea, intus tubo atro-purpureo. 
L. toxicaria, Dalz. 
Crescit raro in paludibus Concani australioris; fl. Feb., fructum ma- 
turum legi tempore pluviali. 
The family of the Aroidee, though generally possessed neither of fra- 
grance nor fine colours (but having, on the contrary, a repulsive odour 
so similar to that of animal putrescence that the carrion-flies are de- - 
. ceived by it, and deposit their larvæ on the spadices), must always be 
extremely interesting to. the botanist, from the singularity of their 
forms and their curious inflorescence. The plant now described, 
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