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TRIBUS IL CRYPTOCORYNEZ. 
Spadix spathe inclusus, apice cum eá concretus sive exsertus et liber. Flores masculi 
a femineis remoti. Anther@ circa superiorem spadicis partem dispositee. Ovaria plura, 
circa basin spadicis in pistillum unicum pluriloculare connata, ovulis multis angulo 
centrali affixis. Styli et stigmata totidem quot ovaria, radiatim divergentia. Organa 
rudimentaria nulla aut vix distincta. Semina albuminosa, embryone inverso. — Plante 
rhizomate stolonifero, foliorum laminá subuni- aut palmati-nerviá , integrá, lanceolatà 
raro basi excisá. 
III. CRYPTOCORYNE. 
Fiscupr. ۰ . . .— ٩080۲۲, in Melet. bot. 1. p. 16. VI. (1). 
CHARACTER ESSENTIALIS. 
SPATHA basi tubuloso-integrä, limbo elongato. Spapix inclusus, interrupté androgynus, 
medio nudus, spathe septo tubum subclaudente apice concretus. ANTHERE sessiles, in 
vertice biporosz. Ovarra circa basin spadicis verticillatim connata, monostyla, ovulis 
angulo centrali affixis. Sricmata lateralia, indivisa. Bacca unica, quinque- sex- aut multi- 
locularis, polysperma. | | ۱ 
CHARACTER ۰ 
SeArHA monophylla, elongata, crassiuscula, circa basin connata tubo brevi spadicem includenti , 
intus instructo dissepimento transversali spadicis apici concreto eumque appendice amplectente , su- 
perné hinc in longitudinem fissa, maxima ex parte convoluta sive spiraliter torta. Spamx pusillus , 
spathe tubo inclusus, medio constrictus et nudus, apice incrassato-clavato dissepimento sursum con- 
creto densé antherifero, ima basi uno pluribusve verticillis ovariorum arcté connatorum. Frores 
MASCULI : ANTHERE sessiles, minutissime, libere, discoidexw, carnose, in vertice depresso-concave , 
biloculares : loculi brevi-tubulosi, verticaliter immersi, discreti, singuli anthere ( sive carnosi con- 
nectivi) verticem minuto poro perforantes. Frores FEMINEL: ovaria numero antheris longè pauciora , 
nunc simplici serie circum basin spadicis unita, nunc, ubi majori sunt numero, in densá circum eam 
spicá conjuncta, sic universa unum tantummodo efficientia pistillum gamogastrum quinque- aut 
multi-loculare, cujus loculi, prout ex uno tantum pluribusve superpositis ovariis constant , pauciora 
aut plura ovula continent. Posterius ubi obtinet, diligens investigatio ostendit, ejusmodi loculum 
septis tenuissimis , incompletis, tantum non plane evanescentibus, e pariete ad axem obliqué descen- 
dentibus, in 3-5 transversales concamerationes divisum. Ovura in angulo loculi interno superposita , 
adscendentia , funiculo umbilicali brevissimo suffulta, permultis filis diaphanis tenuissimis intermixta. 
(1) Cryptocoryne Fisch. Spatha tubo brevissimo, limbo elongato. Spadix spathe plicá tubum claudente (appendiculà ? ) 
conjunctus. Anthere confertz , loculis amplis celluleeformibus , marginatis, septo valde distincto separatis ; poro (?) dehi- 
scentibus. Ovarium pluri- (6) loculare, ovulis diversà altitudine axi affixis, peritropis. Styli plures (?) ; stigmata radiata. 
Semina albuminosa, testa spongiosa (?). Embryo cotyledonibus (protophyllis?) pluribus. 
Asiaticee, rhizomate stolonifero ; foliis vaginá petiolari dilatatà, laminà integrá uninervi, floribus suaveolentibus. 
Cr. spiralis Fisch. Cr. ciliata Fisch. (Ambrosini® sp. Roxb.). Cr. ovata Schtt. (Caladium ovatum Vent.) 
