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tecta. Spadix nullus. — Masc : Stamina intermedia : Fila- 

 menta basi articulata, superne dilatata peltata : Antherarum 

 hculi 6-8, ovales, medio poro dehiscentes. Fcem : Pistilla 

 marginalia: Germen ovatum, 1-ovulatum, ovulo erecto: 

 Stylus superne incrassatus : Stigma subcapitatum. 



Spathicarpa hastifolia. (Tab. LXXVII.) 



Radix a me non visa. Folium solitarium, radicale, longe 

 petiolatum, hastato-trilobum, membranaceum, reticulato- 

 venosum; lobo medio ovato- acuminate, lateralibus hori- 

 zontaliter patentibus, oblongis, obtusis, subinaequilaterali- 

 bus, omnibus glaberrimis, integerrimis. Petiolus spitha- 

 maeus et ultra, gracilis, basi in vaginam latam membrana- 

 ceam circumvolutam dilatatus. Scapus folio longior, 

 gracilis, teres, erectus, e vagina petioli erumpens, soli- 

 tarius. Spatha terminalis, vix digitem longa, lato-linearis, 

 seu lineari-oblonga, subcymbiformis, basi attenuata, apice 

 acutissime acuminata, longitudinaliter nervosa, nervis 

 venis anastomosantibus, marginibus involutis; intus 

 linea media longitudinali florifera. Flores nudi, masculi 

 et foeminei, cum staminibus sterilibus lentiformibus im- 

 mixti. Statnina mediam partem lineae floriferag occu- 

 pantia. Filattienta tuberculo parvo convexo articulata, 

 peltata, carnosa, apice tri-rarius-quadrangulari, truncata, 

 paulo infra marginem antherifera : AnthercB 6-8, dis- 

 cretse, liberae, ovales, pallide - flavae, subcarnosae, medio 

 poro solitario dehiscentes. Pistilla marginalia. Germen 

 ovatum, glabrum, stylo subaeque longo apice incrassato : 

 Stigma obtusum, subcapitatum. Fructus : Bacca, — vix 

 matura, ovato-globosa. Semen unicum ad basin loculi, 

 erectum, ovatum. 



Hab. In America meridionali, prope flumen Uraguay. D. 

 Jacobus Baird. 



It was not till I examined, with some degree of care, the 

 fructification of this plant, that I recognized any thing remark- 

 able about it, or any thing that would indicate a structure 

 different from that of other Aroide^e, or even of Arum itself. 

 It was then, however, that I perceived there was no spadix, 



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