316 ASPIDISTREAE kjsdl. (Tupistra.) 



Ovarium oblongum, columna stylina vix crassius, ima basi 

 triloculare; ovula duo in quolibet loculo, colluteralin, angulo 

 interno suspensa (fundo affixa Gawl.). Columna stylinn con- 

 tinua, crassa, teretiuscula, trisulca (Blume), superne triparti- 

 bilis. Stigmata tria, uiagna, subrotuuda, convexa, suleo 

 longitudine exarata, patentia. Fructiis .... Herbae acau- 

 les; rhixomate duro-camoso, bu/bicipite, stolonizante.{Gaw/.) 

 Folia radicatia petio/ata, /anceo/ata, striato-nervosa. Pe- 

 duncu/i radica/cs, scapiformcs, supeme dense spicato-mu/- 

 tiflori ; jioribus uni- vel bibractcatis. Flores nune partibus 

 (juartam adduut fide Gawl. 



1. T. SQUALIDA GawL in Ciirt. Bot. Mag. t. 1655. Poir 

 Encycl. 5. 374. Bot. Beg. I. 704. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 515. Blume, 

 in Tijdschrift vorr naluurligke Geschiedenes 1. p. 79.83. t.IIl.c. 

 Spica petiolis longiore, iuclioata; floribus bibracteatis ; filamcntis 

 obsolctis. Gawl. Robilca Tupistra Schult. Syst. 7. 173. — Am- 

 boina. (Amcrica Link. Enum. 1. 304.) 7\. — Rhizoma duro-carno- 

 sum, conoideuin, bulbiceps, stolonizans, fibras erassas lcnaccs 

 exserens. Folia cuncla radicalia, a basibus dilatatis rhizoma 

 imbricate compacteque ambicntia, adscendentia, gramineo-viren- 

 tia, membranacea, costa mcdia firmata, dcuse ncrvosa, lancco- 

 lata, l|-2-pedalia, 4-5 unc. lata, supra flaccidiora, recurvo pa- 

 tentia, acuiniuata, iufcrue longius augustata in petiolum stric- 

 tum caualiculato-complicatum (omoibus acstivatio distincta, spi- 

 rali couvoluta). Scapus radicalis, foliis aliquotics brcvior, re- 

 clinato-assur-cns, livido-virens, robustus, rigidus, solidus, tere- 

 tiusculus, loliolis nonnullis couvolutis lanceolatis ad basim, 

 aliisque paucis bracteaceis vagis lincari-Ianceolatis appressis se- 

 cus longitudincin. Spica terminali-continua, 4-5-uncialis, crecta, 

 cyliudraceo-clon-ata, numerosa, sparsa, scssilis, crcbra, infra 

 laxior, axi a sedibus facialibus florum iuterruptc angulata : brac- 

 teae hcrbaceo-membranosae, geminatac; uua antica, major, peri- 

 gonio aequalis arctcque supposita, lanceolata, coucava; altcra 

 lateralis, interior, contigua, couformis, plurics minor. Perigo- 

 nium scssile, adscendens, rbachidi oblique accumbens, firmuni, 

 late campa.)ulatum,6-fidum, § uiic. latum, cxtus violaceo-palleus, 

 luridum (in icone caerulescens), iutus mclliuo-squalens. opacum; 

 tubus cupulatus, cxtus plicis scnis longitudinalibus prominulis 

 sutunsque totidem immersis alterne notatus; limbus subbrevior 

 tiibo, recurvato-patcns, obsolcte bilabiatus ; laciuiis oblongis, 

 obtus.s, plaumsculis, ambitu reflexis, imis tribus patcntioribus, 

 med.a minore, auctiore, depressiore : (latus dorsale perigonii 

 propter arctam contra rhachidem pressio.iem discum dat intru- 

 sum cuni latcribus marginato-clcvatis ) Anthcrae laciniis oppo- 

 sitae, summo tubo ab axi brevi media peltato-aduatae, albidae, 

 ablato-subrotundae, biloculares; loculis collatcralibns, basi sub- 



