Calla. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 515 
pale yellow colour, and smooth on both sides, Spadizx with 
~ germs only round, the lower half a small portion at the mid- 
dle coutracted, and naked, above clavate and covered with 
anthers. ‘Filament none. Anthers numerous, cuneate, with 
two polliniferous pores at top. Germs numerous, from two 
to four-lobed, Style none. Stigma glandular, scarcely ele- 
vated above the germs. . 
3. C. rubescens, R. 
~ Caulescent. Leaves cordate, base bifid. Spathe con- 
tracted, acute, equalling the spadix. Lower third of the spa- 
dix covered with germs, and clavate corpuscles intermixed ; 
the upper two thirds covered with anthers only. 
Dracunculus amboinicus. Rumph. Amb. v. t, 111. fi 25-: 
A native of Chittagong, and from thence sentto the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta by Dr. Buchanan, in 1797, where it 
blossoms in August 180]. 
Root of numerous, long, fleshy, spreading fibres. Stem, 
the largest plant in the Botanic garden has in four years got 
one of about three inches in length only, and half that in di- 
ameter, and as yet surrounded with the withered, stem-clasp- 
- ing bases of the old leaves, through these pass the thick 
fleshy fibres of the root, which descend into the ground, 
Leaves many, horizontal, petioled, sagittate-cordate; dobes 
obtuse, margins very entire, and without the inner marginal 
vein common to most of this order, point acute; from six to 
.twelve inches long, and from three to six broad, in general 
slightly tinged with red, particularly round the margins, 
Petioles erect, below deeply channelled and embracing those 
within, above tapering gently, and there very slightly chan- 
nelled, smooth, of a deep dull red, from one to five feet long. 
Scapes in the single plant now before me, four issue from the 
oxall: of one leaf, they are more or less erect, round, coloured, 
mooth, somewhat clavate, from three to four inches long. 
Spathe coloured, lanceolate on both sides, opening a little 
above the middle ; at all times closely shut ‘except for a short 
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