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densely covered externally with brown hairs. Staminal crown 

 double, the exterior one of 5 short, broad lobes, each ter- 

 minating in two projecting angles : the interior crown of 5 

 long, subulate, incurved threads, opposite to the exterior 

 ones. Pistil: Germens 2: Styles none: Stigma ^at, naked, 

 large. Pericarp; follicles 2, cylindrical, diverging, tapering 

 to a sharp point. 



The plant from which the accompanying figure was made, 

 was I'aised in my garden, from bulbs brought some months 

 before from the neighbouring country. These blossomed in 

 October, and have now been in flower and fruit nearly four 

 months. 



SuppL. Tab. II. Ceropegia bulbosa. Fig. 1, Corolla, laid 

 open. Fig. 2, Calyx, with the essential organs of fructi- 

 fication and staminal crown : — magnijied. 



III. 

 ARUM CRENATUM. 



MONCECIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. Ord. AROIDEiE. 



Gen. Char. Spatha monophylla, cucullata. Spadix apice 

 nudus, medio staminifer, antheris multi-serialibus ; basi 

 faemineus: saepius staminibus pistillisve sterilibus fertili- 

 bus approximatis. Baccce uniloculares, polyspermae. 

 Semina parieti altero inserta. Radicula umbilico obversa. 



Arum crenatum ; acaule, foliis cordato-hastatis acutis, lobis 

 rotundatis, spatha subcylindracea convoluta margine 

 undulato-crenata infra medium contracta basi truncata 

 spadicem cylindraceum valde superante. (Suppl. Tab. 

 III.) 



Stemless. Root, a flattened brown tuber, throwing out 

 white fibres. Petioles a span long, slender, sheathing at the 

 base, slightly furrowed on the inner-side. Leaves ovato-cor- 

 date, somewhat hastate, 3 inches long, entire, waved ; the 

 lobes rounded, very obtuse; the nerves oblique, parallel, 

 uniting within the margin; shining and bright- green 

 above, glaucous beneath. Scape shorter than the petioles, 

 cylindrical, purplish above. Spatha 4-5 inches long, almost 



