Typhonium Schtt. — Colocasia Ray. 145 



connectivis confluentifi, albida, horizontalia, sub-complanato- 

 cylinclrica, supra utrinque antheram gerentia, apice supra an- 

 theras elongata , curvata, adscendenti-erecta et antherarum 

 vertices obtegentia, acuta, lucidula ; antherae stramineae, luci- 

 dae, totae connectivo adnatae, hneari-oblongae, vertice obtu- 

 sae, biloculatae, parallelae; loculi contigui, dissepimento in 

 dehiscentia rumpente antheram unilocularem, elastice bival- 

 vem fiugentes ; pollen albidmn, globosum, sat magnum mu- 

 riculatum ; uectar pauUo ante et in ejacuktione polUnis sat 

 copiosum, spadicem inter organa rudimentaria obtegens, fra- 

 2;)*ans; organa rndimentaria saperiora nil, nisi connectiva 

 steriha, teretia, longiora , apice breviter bifida, subrecurva, 

 albida, hicida; inferiora distantia a vertice complanata, nunc 

 subtrigona, subtus subcarinata, 0,10 — 0,15 poll. longa, 0,08 — 

 0,09 poll. lata, in apice acutiusculo paullo retusa; spadicis 

 pars friictifera dein elongata nunc 0,6 poll. longa, parte squa- 

 mifera emarcida, persistente adhuc coronata; haccae gioboso- 

 turbinatae, apice acutae, viridi - albidae, glabrae, lucidulae, 

 basi attemiatae et subanguhitae ; semeti subgiobosum apice 

 vix attenuatum, basi truncatum (nec ellipsoideum! BL), stro- 

 phiola sat crassa, obverse conica, spongiosa sufiiiltum (icon 

 Bl. Emph. 1. c. t. 36. f. 14, semcn nostrum cum strophiola 

 peripherice repraesentat, nostrum autem magis rotundum eva- 

 dit, tuberculaque magis in costas confluunt) ; testa suberosa 

 (nec coriaceo-subcarnosa BL), fcrrugmea, sulcato-tuberculata. 

 — In graminosis praeprimis humidis ad viarum et fossarum 

 margines prope Bataviam vulgatissima species, mensibus Fe- 

 bruario ad Majum flores fructusque sub foliis occuhos et in 

 solo semi-immersos praebens. — 1846. 



00. COLOCASIA INDICA K^th. p. RUBRA Hsskl. 



Char. Gen. cf. ^lsn. Gen. 36-2, Enal. Gen. 1683, Kntli. En. III. 36, secl 

 stigma trilobiim ; quoad spatLani nostra species ad subgeuus: Alo- 

 casia (cf. Knth. 1. c. 37 et 38, Endl. 1. c), quoad spadicis appen- 

 dicem ad Eucolocasiam pertinet et inde character distinctivus sub- 

 generis utriusque niutandus et forsan subgenera haec haud jure se- 

 jungcnda. 



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