454 ARACEAE. (Freycinetia. 
1‘ in diameter, ringed, and emitting many aerial roots. Leaves stiff 
coriaceous , a near the ends of the branches, linear- -lanceolate, 
1!/2—2'/2 ft. long and 11/2‘ broad at the clasping base, tapering gradually 
to an acute point, spinuloso-serrate along the margins and the keeled 
midrib. Male fl. on 2—4 terminal cylindrical spadices, each 5—6' & 4—6", 
naked in the lower third, the whole surrounded by a rosette of rose-colored 
leaf-bracts which are ovate-lanceolate, 10—15‘ long and 2'/2‘ broad below, 
the inner bracts oblong- obtuse, 3/:—1‘ long. Filaments 2“, orange; anthers 
1“, clavate-oblong, obtuse at both ends, the broad connective continuous 
with the filament. Fem. fl. Spadices and spathes as in the male flowers. 
Phalanges surrounded by 2—4 short staminodes, composed of 5—10 carpels, 
but generally 1-celled at last, dotted at the smooth polished and truncate 
top with 5—10 reniform or subannular cartilaginous stigmas arranged in 
a circle or ellipse. Exocarp pulpy, orange-colored. — F. arborea, Gaud. 
Bot. Freye. p. 341, tab. 41. — Mann, Enum. no, 469. — Solms- Laubach, 
Lc. °p. 100. — Fr scandens, Hook. & Arn, in Bot. Beech. (not Gaud.). — 
Mrs. tig pl. 3. 
Comm: n the aa wer sapoinats climbing on trees or porngers over the ground in absence 
of trees, ge ve formi mpenetrable thickets. The older name F. arborea has to be 
abandoned as ae e 
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rst saw the plant, as I did myself, it was found climbing on Draca aena awred , the leaves 
of which nee Tes arog Pog ewhat those of the present species. Thi robabl 
e belief that the flowering eaiaiser oteradeeiad with the foliage, 
belonged to the ie: Conde olms-Laubach in the Monograph quoted has admi ted, 
stigmas rsa a roundish apex, those with many have an elongate one. Nat. name: «leie», 
whi ecurs in Tahiti for F. demissa, R. Br. 
Orper XCI. ARACEAE. 
Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious or hermaphrodite, on a simple 
spike or spadix which is supported by a convolute or rarely flat, colored 
or leaf-like bract or spathe. Stamens and ovaries either in ifferent 
parts of the spadix without perianth or bracts, or 6 or fewer stamens 
round each ovary with or without a small scale or perianth- -segment 
under each stamen. Anthers usually 2-celled and opening upward, sessile 
or on short filaments, distinct or connate by their connectives. Ovaries 
oF On & simple style. Fruit a berry. Seeds in a pulpy testa, with or 
ut albumen. — Herbs, usually with a watery, often caustic milksap, 
stemless, with a tuberous rhizome, or caulescent, sometimes fruticose, 
