1104 BENGAL PLANTS. (Pistia. 
Flowers and leaves present together; leaves undivided or 
more or less 3-lobed or pedati- = Mise ; males and females 
remote; neuters present above the females and sometimes 
us Typhoni 
Males and females remote; neuters present above 
females; leaves pedatipartite; edges of spathe ee 
below ; ovules orthotropous ...........ceceeeeees Sauromatum. 
Males and females contiguous or nearly so; neuters want- 
ing; leaves 3-sect ; a es vintatthe edges of spathe 
free ; ovules anatropou Sete ae ee Amorphophallus. 
{Spadix without a barre ners ge; males and females sepa- 
rated by a belt of ralistarw’, pearly-white neuters; flowers appear- 
ing without the leaves ; leaves 3-sect; segments eae ovules 
anatropous Jesmonium. 
tLeaves and scapes rising from a short caudex, are a hypo- 
geal rhizome, or if rising direct from a tuber-like, hypogeal corm, 
tate 
the leaves peltate and undivided ; connective wider than anther- 
cells; flowers and “eit present together :—[p. 1103] 
Leaves peltate :— 
sce with a barren appendage, not adnate at its base to the 
a few, basal Alocasia. 
Ovules many, aon Colocasia. 
Spadix without an appen ee ovules many, parietal :— 
Spadix quite free Foe 1B HB TNG ccnnicocnnecssennese Remusatia. 
Spadix x base and nae rene partially adnate to 
Steudne 
e spat 
Leaves not pli ; spadix without an appendage ...Aglaonema.- 
*Flowers eeeag hrodite, rarely a few l-sexual; spadix without an 
appendage :— me “10 3 | 
Perianth wanting ; epiphytic, — herbs :— 
Berries Ce “Geile 6 olitary Scindapsus- 
Berries confluent ; ovules Fey ieee pemitedieks Rhaphidophora- 
Perianth of 4-6 segments present ; ovules solitary in each cell :— 
Spadix flowering upwards; ovary 3-celled ; ovule from inner angle 
of each cell ; epiphytic climbers, unarmed .............s000200099* 
Spadix flowering downwards; ovary 1-celled ; ovule pendulous from 
apex of cell; rigid, prickly, tBathet Ps or palustrine herbs Lasia- 
997. Pistia Linn. 
Aquatic, floating, gregarious, stemless, stoloniferous herbs; 
