DESCltlPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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Whitfield, and purchased by His Grace the late Duke of 
Northumberland, produced perfect flowers in the month of May. 
— Bot. Mag. 4387. 
The plant is now pretty well known. The flower, as it may 
be described in popular terms, consists of a five-parted calyx, 
next to which the outer series of the corolla occurs; this is 
apricot-coloured, stained with deep crimson at the base, and 
assumes nearly the form of a saucer, being about two inches in 
diameter: the margin is divided into many slightly-toothed seg¬ 
ments. The next series is a whorl of narrow, yellowish-green 
filaments, which give to the flower somewhat the appearance of 
a passion-flower. These are succeeded by two other series of 
filaments, or stamens, the points of which bend over and are 
closely inflexed, and thus look like a double corona or crown, of 
the same rich yellowish tint as the outer portion. The interior 
of these is occupied by the five rays of the stigma. They are 
produced solitary, in the axils of the leaves, upon the recent 
wood. 
AROiDEiE.— ~Monoecia Monandria. 
Ariscema Muvvayi (Hooker), syn. Avum Muvrayi (Graham). 
Few of the Aroidece are more worthy of cultivation than the pre¬ 
sent, of which tubers were sent to us from Bombay, by our 
valued friend, Mr. Law, of Tanna, who observes, that he has 
frequently met with it in the valleys of the Bahdsa Hills, to the 
south-west of Surat. Beared in the stove, it sends up, in early 
spring, first the very delicate inflorescence, and afterwards the 
leaves. The tubers are about the size of potatoes; the scape 
about a foot long, terminated above by a very delicate and hand¬ 
some spatha, which has its lower half green, and convolute into 
a tube; the upper half of the most delicate white, with a red 
ring round the mouth, ovate, convex, inclined over the mouth, 
faintly striated, and terminated by a very narrow, twisted point. 
Spadix subulate, longer than the tube of the spatha, but much 
shorter than the entire spatha, flexuose, the upper half naked, 
the lower clothed with flowers, of which the lower portion con¬ 
sists of pistils, rather crowded. Above the pistils, the spadix is 
occupied by numerous filaments, terminated with a whorl of 
three or four globose anthers; and above these, at the base of 
