516 _ MONOECIA soWARDAIS. Calla, 
space, and just before the pollen is discharged. Spadix 
scarcely longer than the spathe, sub-cylindric; the lower 
third covered with the germs, intermixed with small, white, 
clavate, stamen-like scales ; the upper two thirds closely co- 
vered with sessile twin anthers. Germs round, three-celled, — 
with the rudiments of many ovulaineach. Style none. Stig- 
ma large, convex, obscurely three-lobed. 
4. C, oblongifolia, Roxb. 
Caulescent. Leaves erect, oblong. Spathe boat-shaped, 
acuminate, a few female below. 
Arum aquaticum. Rumph. Amb, v. t..108. 
_ A native of the Moluccas, from thence brought to the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms during the rains. 
Root fibrous, perennial. Stem straight, in plants of four 
or five years’ growth above a foot high, and an inch in diame- 
ter, marked with the cicatrices of the fallen leaves. Leaves 
terminal, erect, petioled, oblong or narrow cuneate-oblong, 
entire, smooth on both sides, from six to nine inches long, and 
about three broad. Petioles shorter than the leaves, the up- 
per third nearly round, Seapes axillary, shorter than the pe- 
tioles, round, smooth. Spathe oblong, boat-shaped, acute, 
pointed, smooth, ofa deep green on both sides, gaping consi- 
derably. Spadix cylindric, rather shorter than the spathe, 
the lower third, or two fifths, with a few scattered pistils, the 
“upper part closely covered with four-celled anthers, Berry 
5. C. picta. R. 
 Caulescent. Leaves short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire; 
clouded. Flowers axillary, solitary, peduncled. Spathe gib- 
bous, acuminate, shorter than the obtuse, clavate spadix. 
A native of the Island of Sumatra; in the Botanic garden 
where it has been introduced, it blossoms about the close of 
the rains. In this the male part of the spadix is three or four 
times longer than the base or female part ; anthers with two, 
