Callo. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 515 



pale yellow colour, and smooth on both sides. Spadix with 

 germs only round, the lower half a small portion at the mid- 

 dle contracted, and naked, above clavate and covered with 

 anthers. Filament none. Anthers numerous, cuneate, with 

 two |)ollinirerous pores at top. Germs numerous, from two 

 to four-lobcd. Style none. Stiyma glandular, scarcely ele- 

 vated above the germs. 



3. C rvbescens. R. 



Caulescent. Leaves cordate, base bifid. Spatlie con- 

 tracted, acute, equalling the spadix. Lower third of thespa- 

 dix covered with germs, and clavate corpuscles intermixed ; 

 the upper two thirds covered with anthers only. 



Dracunculus amboinicus. Rumpli. Amh. v. t. lll.y. 2. 



A native of Chittagong, and from thence sent to the Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta by Dr. Buchanan, in 1797, where it 

 blossoms in August 1801. 



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; lobes 

 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 \v'\{\\ 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 

 axill of one leaf, they are more or less erect, round, coloured, 

 smooth, 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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