ARACEAE (AUCTORE ENGLER). 343 
centia feminea 2cm. longa, 0,75 cm. erassa, inflorescentia mascula 
5—6 cm. longa, 4 mm. crassa. 
Columbia (Wallis). 
Species dubiae, male descriptae, verisimiliter cum prioribus conjungendac. 
H. minor Griff. It. Not. IIL 152; Schott Syn. 119, Prodr. 
311. — Ind. or. 
H. major Griff. 1. c. 153; Schott Syn. 119, Prodr. 312. — 
Ind. or. 
H. Roshalum Griff. l.c. 154; Schott Syn. 119, Prodr. 312. 
— Ind. or. 
L. CHAMAECLADON Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 212 et in Bot. 
Zeit. 1856 p. 564. Schott Prodr. 312. Gen. Ar. t. 60. — Calla 
Jack im Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist. IV. n. 13. (1843) p. 11. 
Aglaonema Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 1844 p. 57. pr. p. — De 
ramificatione confer Engler in Nova Act. I. c. p. 185. t 3. 
Fzg. 13 
Flores masculi 2—3-andri: Stamina brevia connectivo crasso, 
thecis juxtapositis ovoideis filamento brevissimo longioribus, rimula 
in verticem antherae oblique producta aperientibus, pollen in far- 
ciminulis emittentibus. Flores feminei 2-, rarissime 3-gyni: Sta- 
minodia 1—2 plerumque unicum (anticum cycli interioris) stipi- 
tatum capitatum ovario brevius. Ovarium 2-, raro 3-loculare; 
ovula anatropa plura placentae axili funiculis longulis 4 - seriatim 
affixa, oblique basin versus directa, micropyle fundum spectantia. 
Stigma depressum discoideum vel subhemisphaericum orbiculare. 
Baccae ellipsoideae, arete contiguae, 2—3-loculares, loculis poly- 
spermis. Semina subcurvata, elongato-ellipsoidea, raphe prominula, 
chalaza tuberculiforme prominente testa tenui remotiuscule striato- 
costata. Embryo axilis in albumine copioso. 
Suffrutices parvi Indiae orientalis, caudiculo erecto vel pro- 
Cumbente brevi, a basi ramoso. Foliorum petioli laminae sub- 
aequilongi, inferne vaginati, lamina lanceolata vel lanceolato-oblonga 
vel triangulari-lanceolata vel ovata, nervis lateralibus L, II. et II. 
Subparallelis adscendentibus vel patentibus (in foliis latioribus), 
subparallelis, in margine conjunctis: Pedunculi plures tenues 
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