ORPER 131.—AROIDS. 283 
a Spathe rolled in at base. Top of spadix club-shaped. Dragon-root. Antsz’Ma. 1 
b Spathe rolled inwards the whole length. Arvow-led. Dragon. PELTAN’DRA. 2 
“db Spathe rolled backwards above, white. Egyptian Calla. Ricuar’pia. 
¢ Perianth 0. Spathe open, flattish, white. Lvs. cordate. Wild Calla. Catua. 
¢ Perianth regular. Spa. shell-form. Lvs, large. Skunk-cabbage, Symptocar’Prs, 
d Flowers terminal, yellow. Scape terete, Golden Club, Orostica. 
d Flowers lateral, green. Scape leaf-like. Sweet Flag. A’corvs. 
1. ARISAMA. Arum. Indian Turnip. 
Spathe rolled inward at base. Spadix covered with flowers below, 
naked and club-shaped above. Sterile flowers above the fertile, each a 
clump of 4 stamens. Fertile flowers each a 1-celled ovary, with a flat 
stigma. Berry red, with 1 or several seeds—Odd-looking plants, with 
scape arising from a corm or rootstock, and sheathed with the radical 
leaves. Taste very acrid. 
1 A.triphyl/lum. Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Leaves usually 2, trifoliate. Spathe bent ané 
inflected above, covering the obtuse spadix, striped. 
2 A.quina’tum. Five-leaved Jack, Leaves in pairs, one or both quinate. S. 
8 A. Dracon’tium. Green Dragon. Leaf mostly solitary, pedate, 7—11-foliate. 
2. PELTAN’DRA. Arrow Dragon. 
The sterile flowers consist of 8-12 anthers attached to the border ofa 
shield-shaped (peltate) connectile.—Root fibrous. Leaves sagittate. 
1 P, Virgin’ica. Firginia 4. Spathe green, incurved, long, wavy on the margin. 
Leaves many, large, hastate-sagittate, very smooth, dark. 
@ P.glan’ca. Glaucovs A. Spathe white, entire, gradually unrolled and widened 
above. Leaves ovate-sagittate, the base lobes large. S. 
