100 MONOCOTYLfeDONs. — aroide.t:. Avum. 



permvlh nanower, sj)reading, or deflexed. Masses oi polleri 

 ■I, parallel with each other, fixed to the stigma by their ex- 

 tremities. P,r. 



1. IVI. pali/dosa, leaves about 4 at the base of the stem scabrous 

 at the extreinitv, scape pentagonal, lip concave acute, p. 255, 

 — Marshes. 



8. CORALLORRHIZA. 



Up produced behind, adnate witii the spur, or free. Cohinm 

 free. Masses oi pollen 4, obli(iue (not parallel). Br. 



\. C. hwata^ spur abbreviated adnate. p. 255. — Marshy woods j 

 rare. 



Order XV. AROIDE.E. Jiis,^. 



Flowers si)athaceous on a spadix ; sometimes with the anthers 

 and p?,s/'i/$ separated, and then generally naked ; sometimes 

 perfect, with a 4 — 6-rarely 3-partite perianth, the latter not 

 petaloid. Slam, very numerous in those with w^keA flowers : 

 in the genera with a perianth usually opposite, and equal in 

 number to the segments of the latter. ^Inihers turned out- 

 wards. Ovaries superior, solitary, or numerous, 1 — 3-celled, 

 1 — manv-seeded: omdes erect, sometimes pendulous or pa- 

 rietal. Style none. Stigma \. V^e/vVa/p indehiscent, bac- 

 cate or capsular. Embryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen, 

 with the same direction as the seed; rarely with a contrary di- 

 rection, having a cleft on its side for the emission of the phi- 

 mule. — " Herbs ox 2indershrubs. Root often tuberous or in- 

 crassated. Leaves sheathing, simple or compound, often all 

 radical. Spadix terminal, or lateral, or radical, often solitary 

 and surrounded with a spatha, sometimes naked." Br. 



Sect. I. Aroij)!^,. Anthers and pistils separated. PerianihO. 

 Fruit a berry. 



1. ARUM. 



Spatha monophyllous, cucullate, convolute at the base. Spadix 

 naked at the extremity, staminiferous in the middle, with the 

 anthers \n \n?^n)' rows ; pistiliiferous at the base. Berry 1- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



1. A. macidatvm, leaves all radical hastato-sagittate, lobes de- 

 flexed, spadix club-shaped obtuse shorter than the spatha. 



p.2n.—Wood^. 



