HOMALONEMA. )53 
Spadicis in axillis aggregatis squames coriacei immexti, 
florentes suberecti, fructiferi decurvato-penduli petioles plu- 
res breviorres, 
To each peduncle which is round, is a spathiform sheath, 
fleshy cellular, reddish, bi-carinate on the back. 
Spatha, foliacea convoluta, apice hians, ad epocum anthesin _ 
cymbiformis. Spadix (floriger) basi faeminéa czeterum andro- 
gera. 
Ovaries densely crowded, no glandular bodies interjected. 
Stylus o. Stigma discoideum, triloculare. Ovula oo, anatro- 
ра. vel } anatropa. 
Fructus non visus. Sem. immatura viridia. 
Hab. Pulo Bissar in Sylvis collinis. September, 1842. 
Has it in the younger states bodies mixed with the ovaria, 
I think so. ? 
2. Homalonema majus. Habitus precedentis (H. minoris) 
ast statura 3 plo-major. 
The leaves are precisely the same, with the same venation 
and intra marginal vein, not noticed in the description of 
H. Minus. 
The spadices have just the same direction too, the sheaths 
green and shorter. "The aroma is also the same. 
Spatha altogether rolled up, not observed at all open, (the 
convolutions appear to increase with the growth of the fruit.) 
Each ovary is suffulted by a white-headed body, which 
looks much like the lower abortive stamens ; they are attach- 
ed by a slender stalk. 
Antherz biloculares : connectivo albo crasso truncato, lo- 
culi adnatez. — Dehiscence not observed. 
Ovarium oblongum. Stylus o. Stigma discoideum triloculare. 
Ovula plura anatropa. Only young fruit have been seen, the 
spath of these are filled with not-an-over pleasant smelling 
fluid, the anthers are dissolved as it were, from the spadix, the 
young seeds are as iu H. Minus, most of the ovula abortive. 
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