Observations on the Genus Spathium, 535 



luteo, acute elliptico, (in iodino vel acido globoso.) Pistilla 

 3, ovario superiore libero, stigmate terminale. Fructus 2, 

 carpellis 3 follicularibus, basi subenerveis, demum divaricatis, 

 dispermis. Semina erecta, umbilico brimneo, testa laevi, 

 simplice, (vel membrana exteriore tenuissima vix discreta,) 

 raphe et chalaza indistinctis. Embryo erectus, macropodus, 

 cotyledone maxima, concava, carnosa, plumulam amplectente, 

 plumula (in semine etiam) maxima bifolia, foliis insequalibus 

 margine involutis. 



References to the Plates, XV. and XVI. 



a. A single flower, seen sideways. 



b. Ditto from below or front, shewing the two bracts in situ. 



c. Stamen. 



d. A bract. 



e. Imaginary section, shewing situation of parts of flower. 



f. Flower after inflorescence, the capsules nearly ripe, with 



persistent bracts and stamens. 

 g and g. Another more magnified, and resting on the side. 

 h. Section of ditto, shewing its two cells placed back to 



back. 



i and i. I. Pollen, gibbous at one side, much magnified — in 



II elliptic ; j. globose under the influence of iodine. 

 k. Pistil, with small oblique terminal stigma. 

 /. Ditto, section shewing ovaries in situ. 

 m. m. Capsules. 

 n. Section of ditto. 

 o. Seed. 



p. Ditto magnified, shewing the ribs of the outer-coat. 

 q. Ditto, outer-coat taken off, shewing the raphe and cha- 

 laza, in various veins. 

 r. Embryo, all the coats taken off. 



s. Second coat taken off, striated, dark brown, chalaza 

 grown transverse. 



