190 MONOCOTYLEDONS. ARO*DE/E. Arum. 



perianth narrower, spreading, or deflcxed. Masses of pollen 

 1, parallel with each other, fixed to the stigma by their ex- 

 tremities. Br. 



1. M. paludosa^ leaves about 4 at the base of the stem scabrous 

 at the extremity, scape pentagonal, lip concave acute, p. 255. 

 Marshes. 



8. CORALLORRHIZA. 



Ijp produced behind, adnate with the spur, or free. Column 

 free. Masses of pollen 4, oblique (not parallel). Br. 



\. C. hmata, spur abbreviated adnate. p. 255. Marshy u'oodi, 

 rare. 



ORDER XV. AROIDE^E. Juss. 



Flowers spathaceous on a spadix ; sometimes with the anthers 

 and pistils separated, and then generally naked ; sometimes 

 perfect, with a 4 6-rarely 3- partite perianth, the latter not 

 petaloid. Slam, very numerous in those with naked flowers : 

 in the genera with a perianth usually opposite, and equal in 

 number to the segments of the latter. Anthers turned out- 

 wards. Ovaries superior, solitary, or numerous, 1 3-celled, 

 1 many-seeded: ovules erect, sometimes pendulous or pa- 

 rietal. Style none. Stigma 1. Pericarp indehiscent, bac- 

 cate or capsular. Embryo in the axis of a fleshy allumen, 

 with the same direction as the seed; rarely with a contrary di- 

 rection, having a cleft on its side for the emission of the plu- 

 mule. " Herbs or under shrubs. Root often tuberous or in- 

 crassated. Leaves sheathing, simple or compound, often all 

 radical. Spadix terminal, or lateral, or radical, often solitary 

 and surrounded with a spatka, sometimes naked/' Br. 



SECT. I. AROIDE.&. Anthers and pistils separated. Perianth. 

 Fruit a berry. 



1. ARUM. 



Spatha monophyllous, cucullate, convolute at the base. Spadix 

 naked at the extremity, staminiferous in the middle, with the 

 anthers in manyrcws; pistilliferous at the base. Berry 1- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



1 . A. maculatum, leaves all radical hastato-sagittate, lobes de- 

 flexed, spadix club-shaped obtuse shorter than the spatha. 

 p. 272. Woods. 



