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ALOCASIA Schot. 
(Oestr. Bot. Wochbl. IL. p. 59. 1852) 
Spath ae tubus convolutus, crassus, vegeto-persistens; faux constricta; lamina oblonga, cymbi- 
formis, (virens). 
Spadix androgynus, erectus, spatha paulo brevior; spica feminea subconoidea, proportione 
pauciflora, densa, sessilis; mascula a feminea, parte neutra utrinque contigua leviter 
attenuata, tubo spathae inclusa, remota, leviter incrassata, cylindroidea, densi- ac pluri- 
flora, extra faucem spathae; appendix conoidea, masculam spicam crassitie superans, 
sulcis labyrinthicis ornata; rhachis femineae spicae conoidea, masculae cylindrica. 
Floseuli nudi; masculi: synandria obpyramidata, vertice truncata, ibi subhexagona; con- 
nectivum crassum, vertice planum; loculi 6—8—-10, juxtapositi, antherarum 3—4—5, 
ad basin primum synandrii fere usque producti, tandem substipitati, totam illius longitudinem 
non attingentes, sub pelta synandrii verticis brevissima rimula aperientes; pollen in farci- 
minulis inter synandriorum rimas propullulans; feminei: ovaria unilocularia, (summo 
apice trilocularia) stylus in adolescentibus brevis quidem sed manifestus, in adultis reductus, 
ergo nullus; stigmata depresso- capitata vel clavato-discoidea, pluriovulata; funiculi per- 
breves, erecti, ovulo oblique affixi; ovula collateralia, circulare exserta, erecta, orthotropa ; 
. micropyle tholispectans ; neutri sub synandriis, depresse-pyramidati, compressi, vertice 
truncati, synandria parum prominula mentientes. 
Fructus. Baccae ellypsoideae vel obconice-ellypsoideae, densae, croceo-miniatae, diu sistentes, 
in spieam brevem, capitato-conoideam digestae, spathae tubo tandem irregulariter 
disrupto , laciniis laceratis revoluto, obvallatae, stigmatis rudimento coronatae, unilocu- 
lares; placenta basilari subhexasperma. 
Semen vel semina -subglobosa, erecta, brevissime funiculata, strophiolo cum funiculo indistincte 
concreto, epidermide tenui; testa crassula, laevigata; tegmen tenue, laeve; micropyle tholi- 
spectans; albumen copiosum; embryo axilis. 
Mabitus. Vegetabilia succo turgido, caudice elato, crasso, cicatricibus approximatis ornato. 
Folia longe-petiolata, caudicem late umbraculiforme coronantia. Vaginae petiolares medium 
circiter petiolum | ocupantes. Lamina foli in juvenculis peltata, in adultis saepe fere 
