514 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Calla. 
their whole length, scape included, scarcely half the length of 
the petioles, the usual bractes intervene between the round, 
smooth, uniform, green scapes. Spathe sub-cylindric, rather 
obtuse, with an acumen, smooth on both sides, of a pale 
greenish yellow. Spadix sub-cylindric, obtuse, equalling, 
or rather longer than the spathe; the upper two thirds co- 
vered with sessile, many-celled anthers ; the lower third with 
the germs intermixed with about as many abortive stamina 
as there are germs. Germs ovate, seemingly two, or three- 
celled, but as the receptacles are parietal and do not unite in 
the centre, I can call them only one-celled ovula, many at- 
tached to the exterior half of the parietal receptacles. Style 
none. Stigma two or three-lobed. Berries oblong, not un- 
like a large berberry, and rarely containing more that a sin- 
gle seed. 
Is readily multiplied, by offsets from the body of the root. 
_ 2. C. calyptrata, Roxb. 
_Stemless. Leaves oblong, cordate. Spathe circumcised, 
the upper conical portion falling when early in blossom. 
Spadix, the upper half clayate and covered with stamina, the 
lower half cylindric, and female, 
Arisarum esculentum, Rumph. Amb, v. t. 111 A ) ee 
si native of Amboyna, from thence introduced into the Bo- 
len, where it blossoms in May... 
small, oblique, oblong tuber with ramous fibres 
one. Lea bl 0 » smooth on both sides, su- 
e, pointed, panty a ssingle slender vein round the margill; 
from five to seven inches long, and about three broad, Pe- 
tioles ‘sub-cylindric, shorter than the leaves, Scape shorter 
than the sheathing portion of the petioles, which embrace it on - 
opposite sides... Spathe a little longer than the spadix, at the 
base round the germs convolute and green; the upper portion 
separating and dropping from the lower, when the anthers 
begin to discharge their pollen, splitting round. tha:base.in into 
7 various portions, is of a. tender somewhat Heshy texture, 2 
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