Aglaonema.] AROIDEA). 1113 
ovoid, 1-celled ; placentas parietal, each with many orthotropous 
ovules ; een sessile, discoid. Fruit of small, clustered berries. 
Seeds small; albumen copious; embryo axial. 
14. Remusatra vivipara Schott; F. B. I. vi. 521. Arwm 
viviparum F. I. iii. 496 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnes th. 
A tuberous herb, with numerous bulbiliferous shoots. 
1007. Steudnera C. Koch. 
Herbs with a short caudex, often clothed with fibrous remains 
of old sheaths; Jeaves long-petioled, ovate, peltate. Flower. 
Moncecious ; spathes on axillary peduncles, shortly convolute mi 
the base ; limb ovate-lanceolate, expanded, reflexed, marcescent or 
deciduous ; ; spadix very short, dense-flowered ; male inflorescence 
capitate or clavate, rarely conical, aa usually adnate below to 
the spathe ; sc ar his ¢ Stamens 3-6, connate in a peltate 
body fest flat, ¢ ailttick. cells globose ; dehiscence 
porous, apical. ? Ovaries thes mixed with clavate staminodia, 
‘iiclenoas 1. ‘and: stigma 4-5-lobed ; placentas parietal ; ovules 
many, orthctropous. Fruit of small clustered berries. Seeds 
albuminous ; embryo axial. 
2315. SreUDNERA vrRosA Prain. 8. colocasioides F. B. I. vi. 520. 
Colocasia vurosa F. B. I. vi. 524; E. D. C. 1788. Calla 
go 
A stout hex with a distinct stock. Beng. Bish kachhu. 
1008. Aglaonema Schott. 
Herbs with an erect or serivring stock; leaves ovate or oblong; 
petiole sheathing at base ; lamina ovate, oblong, or subdeltoid, not 
peltate. Flowers moncecious; guns ubtu to iform ; 
spadiz Stipitate, e equalling or shorter than the spathe; male and 
female inflorescence usually contiguous, with rarely neuters inter- 
posed; appen dage 0. 3¢ Stamens 2-4, distinct, subclavate ; 
anthers short; cells remote, with apical pores. ¢ Ovaries few, 1- 
or rarely 2-celled; ovules solitary, subbasilar, anatropous in each 
cell; stigma small or large, discoid or cupular. Frwit of few 
Capitate berries. Seeds solitary; albumen 0. 
*Nerves of op bye pry close, parallel, all uniform, very slender ; sp 
Scandent [p, 1114] Clar 
