PLEUROTHALLIS. (2) SPATHACEE. 
5. Much like the last is a little group with the points of the petals distended 
into a gland, offering a passage the genus ria ie of which they are 
kinsmen ; tas they are called yf Seal OIDE 
6. Close to Aggregate, but with the eacauns developed into a raceme, 
stands a hen, none of which are —— = extend it beyond the summit of the 
leaves; hence the name of BRacHYSTACHY, 
7. Then the devin of the i axis is a by long racemes 
of agin rising high above the leaves, as in ELoNGaTAz 
8. And parallel al —— are other species in which the pe ee my axis 
is accompanied by a well marked attenuation of the sepals: the ACUMINATE. 
9. Having consiterble relation to the last di ivision, but with as or no 
development of the , appear the Apop4 or species in which the stem, if 
the Aropm omsprtos#, while others crawl upon the ground: the ApoD# 
NTES. 
10. Finally, a very small number of species casts off the character of a 
creeping or shortened rhizome producing erect one-leaved stems, and form an 
ordi stem with leaves alternating with each other in the usual w way. 
These, the CaULESCENTES, close the genus. The parallel of Kies | is to be 
ane’ among the | Labiated Stelises. 
The foregoing statement may be reduced to a tabular form as under :— 
Folia coriacea. Spathz maxime herbacez. 
Flores sie in racemos copios 
I. SpatHaces. 
Folia carnosa ; ; floribus magnis membra- 
naceis racemosis pendulis espathaceis . II. MacropHyLL® RacEMOSz. 
Polia — cordata ; Ascites fascicu- 
- IIL. Macropaynna FAScICULATA. 
Folia carnosa ; “caule ancipiti v. alata - IV. Srcarra. 
Folia basi angustata caule ti aut 
angulato ; floribus "Gorman ang : V. AGGREGATA. 
: "ae : ees ae 
tin. . . VI. REsTREPIOIDEA. 
r g peices VIL. BracuysTacnyz. 
: : VIII. ELONGATA. 
: IX. Acumrnataz. 
- XX. Apopz Casprrross. 
te _pro- 
Sem + + +.» XI. Apopm PROREPENTES. 
_ foliis sessilibusaltemis =. . . XII. Cautescenrns. 
§ I. SPATHACE 1: Spath herbacea, aut coriacea. 
_*s" These plants are not to be confounded with species having mem 
nous, or “pits fr alte genus has spathes of some kind. The 
a Seco nerrand i Swieg wy tre ig hhetnys 
feta nnsarpes Jan. 15, 
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