PLATE 2750. 
PROTARUM SECHELLARUM, Engler. 
ARACER. Tribe ARINEA. 
P. Sechellarum, Lngler Jahrb. xxx., Beibl. 67, p. 42 ; species unica. 
Herba tuberosa. Foliwm solitarium, inflorescentia coztaneum, cata- 
1 
is ocppti sessile lateraliter com- 
5 
& 
Flores masculi: stami 
pressum seam i erent eM con: 
SEYCHELLEs : Cascade Estate, Mahé, Thomasset. 
a very remarkable and anomalous genus, which does not fit 
The material from which this plate and a were prepared was 
presented to Kew by Mr. H. P. Thom The specimens described 
by Engler were ornine in the same eal by the late Dr. W. 
Schimper.—N. E. Bro 
Fig. 1, spadix from which the favatige? has — removed - male flowers seen from 
above ; 3, side view of a male flower; 4, female flowers n from above; 5, ovary; 
€, longitudinal section of ovary. Fg. 1 natural size, the pee enlarged, 
