624 MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. 
rugosis longitudinalibus distantiusculis costata, testa haud crassa 
Obtecta, micropyle prominula. Albumen copiosum. Embryo axilis, 
(in Cr. ciliata) gemmulampolyph yllam comosam, cataphyllis pluri- 
mis subulatis formatam proferens. 
Herbae Indiae orientalis rhizomate repente stolonifero, caudice 
epigaeo post primam inflorescentiam sympodiali. Folia petiolo 
distincto instructa lamina cordata, elliptica, lanceolata aut petiolo 
omnino destituta linearia, nervis lateralibus I. utrinque 3—6 ad- 
scendentibus, in apice exeuntibus, venis transversis connexis. 
Peduneulus plerumque brevissimus. Spathae tubus connatus hy- 
pogaeus vel hypolimnus, fauce plica reflexa semiclausus, lamina 
longe tubulosa, arcte torta, brevissima, vel valde elongata. Spadix 
tenuissimus vertice appendiculi obsoleti tholo tubi plicae adnatus; 
inflorescentia feminea saepius pauciflora, floribus monocyclis vel 
dicyclis, illis cycli superioris abortivis, illis cycli inferioris inter se 
connatis; inflorescentia mascula a feminea spatio nudo longo re- 
mota, dense multiflora. 
Ramificationis schema : 
I... Lai b 
Nob stëcht La, 8 
A&ib...8ulSs 
A. Spathae tubus. valde elongatus, anguste cylindricus, quam lamina pius 
dupto vel triplo longior. 
a Spathae lamina ciliata. 
1. €. eiliata (Fisch. msc. ex Wydler in Linnaea V. [1830] 
p. 428); caudice sympodiali; foliorum petiolis longis, lamina ob- 
longa vel lineari-lanceolata, basi in petiolum latiusculum decur- 
rente, apice acutata vel acuminata, costa crassa utrinque valde 
prominente; spatha longissime petiolum superante, fere ad apicem 
usque tubulosa, supra tubum inferiorem spadicem includentem 
paullum constricta, summo apice in limbum ovato-oblongum, cus 
pidatum, dense fimbriatum expansa; inflorescentia feminea circ. 
5—7-flora; appendicis obsoletae stipite brevissimo; syncarpio pe- 
dunculo tziplo quadruplove longiore suffulto, subgloboso. — Schott 
Melet. I. 26, Syn. Ar. 2, Aroid. p. 7, Prodr. 15, Gen. Ar. t 1; 
Blume in Rumphia L 85; Wight Ie. I 775; Kunth En. II. 12; 
Griff. in Linn. Transact. XX. part. II. 264 t. 10. 11. 12. — Am- 
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