320 ASPIDISTREAE endl. (Macrostigma.) 



Folia in sobolihus brcvibus ereclis subbulbiformibus cxferne 

 squamis, interdum praeterea folio altero fultis solitaria, erecto- 

 patula, longe lanceolata, acuminata, basi in petioluin brcvcm 

 angustata, striato-nervosa, costa subtus obtusangulo-prominente, 

 herbacco-mcmbranacea, gramineo-viridia, subeoncoloria, utrinque 

 nitida, superne explanata, infernc canaliculafa, margine snbun- 

 data, glabra, sub-20-pollicaria et longiora, superne 28-29 lin. 

 lata. Squamae folii basim cingenfes foliiformes , marcidae, 

 basi late vaginantes. Pedunculi scapiformes, e cenfro sobolum 

 solitarii, apice spicato-pluriflori, cernui, teretes, virides, subtili- 

 ter violaceo-maculafi, laevcs, glabri, subtripollicares. Flores ses- 

 siles, unibracteafi ; bractca ovafa, carinato-naviculari, acufa, pal- 

 lida, membranacea, marcescente, 2-3 lin. longa. Perigonium car- 

 nosum, interne atro-violaceum, exferne violaceo-albidum, 7 lin. 

 latum ; tubo cupulari, exteme obsolete 6-gono ; limbo 6-partito, 

 longitudinc tubi; laciniis late ovafis, obtusis, encrviis, parum 

 inaequalibus, patenli-recurvatis. Anthcrae 6, fauci perigonii im- 

 mcdiafe per dorsum medium affixae, laciniis oppositae, bilocu- 

 lares, introrsae, ochraceae; loculis ellipticis, collateralibus, sulco 

 longitudinali profundo exarafis, ulrinque distinctis. Pistillum 

 liberum, agariciforme, tuhiim paulo superans. Ovarium parvum, 

 a columna stylina nonnisi constricfione levi distinguendum, suh- 

 rotundum, pallide violaceum, scssile, glabrum, friloculare ; ovula 

 2 in quolibet loculo, cjus fundo affixa, collateralia, subglobosa, 

 anatropa?. Columna sfvlina crassa, confinua, elongafa, (erefius- 

 cula, alba,supra ovarium lcvifer consfricfa,apice in stigma dilafata. 

 Stigma maximum, fauccm claudcns, carnosum, supra convexum, 

 laeve, violaccum, margine obsolefe 6-lobum, subfus in colum- 

 nam stylinam attcnuatum, sulcato-6-angulafum, pallide violaccum. 



ROHDEA ROTH., BLUME. 



Rhodea Endl. 



Perigonium urceolato-suhglobosum, ohiter hexagonum, 

 subcoriaceum, coloratum, limho 6-partitum; laciniis abhrevia- 

 tis, iuaequalibus, incurvatis (recurvis Endl). Stainina 6, laci- 

 niis perigonii opposita. Filamenta tuho perigonii usquc ad 

 faucem intumescentem adnata, apice breviter libera. Antherae 

 bilocularcs; Ioculis collateralihus, oblongis, nonnisi mcdio con- 

 junctis, anlicc secunduni longitudinein dchiscentibus. Ovarium 

 liberum, subgloboso-ovoideum, obsolete trigonum, sessile, 

 triloculare; ovula 2 in quolibet loculo, collateralia, erecta. 

 Stigma sessilc *), friliduin; laciniis latis, inflexis. Fructus 



bac- 



°) Ovarium in stjlum crassum bicvissimum coustrictum. Blume. 

 Stylus ciassus, brevis. Roth. 



