DIEFFENBACHIA SE GU INUM. 
DUMB CANE. 
ENDOGENZ. OR MONOCOTYLEDONES, 
Natural division 
to which sccm 
this Plant belongs, 
NATURAL ORDER, ARACE/, 
Wit 
cn 
SPADICOSA , Artificial divisions ] F: MONCECIA, 
OF to which & POLYANDRIA, 
this Plant belongs. § OF LINNEUS. 
LINDLEY 
No. 121, 
Dierrensacnta. Scuorr. Spatua convoluta. Spapix inferne 
perne 
s 
e faniculo brevi adscenns orth otropum. Stiema discoideum, sessile. Baccz 
oculares, monosperme. SEMEN subglobosum, = nape crassiuscuis, 
vb basilari itn. Emesryo in axi album an 
mbilico e diametro opposita, supera. Panceeits Genera plantarum, 
p. 338, 
SPECIES. D SEGUINUM, ] | , foliis oblongo 
ti inati di tha oblonga sub-breviore 
Mad ie 5 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DIEFFENBACHIA. SPATHE convolute: 
Spap1x covered on one side of the lower part with fertile flowers con- 
taining abortive stamens, and attached on the other side to the spathe, 
free in the upper part where it is completely invested by the male 
flowers, without any marked appendage above them. STAMENS nu- 
merous, with three or four oblong bilocular anthers, adnate and 
arranged vertically round a truncate connective, with their cells paral- 
lel to the axis, and bursting at the apex by a common pore. OvaRrEs 
numerous, free, unilocular, each surrounded by three clavate barren 
stamens which are united together close to the base. OvuLE solitary, 
attached by a short funicular chord to the paries near the base, ascend- 
ing, orthotropous. Stigma forming a sessile disk on the summit of 
oe To THE Dissecrrons. 
1, The plant, diminished. 2, The inflorescence, of the natural size; = bat convelute 
portions ot the spathe forced ‘adh and ‘ore 3, Side vi iew of a stamen. 4,58 seen below. 
ae 6, A biforine. 7, A fertile sdiieae with its 
staminodia. 8, The ovarium erent cut heed below the (s), indicating the 
Sooo of the stigmatic tissue, marked by a Yellow spot. 9, w oreermeel te genaet  teirme 
i gelati f th OAV 
of the ovarium: @) ants = nan te ‘ny, The ovale. 12, phen ize ata 
