Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1868. 
TAB. 15. 
Natural Order AROIDE. 
Genus ZOMICARPER, Schott. 
Genus Zomicarpa, Schott. Spathe persistentis tubus ad basin brevis- 
sime cucullatus, ceterum convolutus. Spadicis feminea pars spatha 
dorso adnata, mascula appendiculata, libera. Anthere rimula ovali, 
vertice aperientes, locellis subpersistentibus. 
Z. Rireperrana, Schott, Prodr. Aroid. p. 122. Foliis tri-quinquepartitis 
segmentis ovatis, spadice spatham duplo longiore, spathz dimidio 
sterili clavato, organis neutris subulato-mucronatis paucis. 
A native of Brazil. 
Scape about a foot high, naked, terete, olive-green. Petioles 
four to six inches long, like the scape but more slender. Leaves 
ternate, the central division ovate, entire, about three inches long 
by half as broad, the lateral divisions larger, varying from 
unequal-sided, with a large deltoid auricle at the base on the lower 
side, to cut down nearly to the base into two subequal ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate divisions, texture fleshy, colour dark green 
above, lower surface paler, the whole uniform, or, in the variety 
figured, variegated with white in the middle. Spadix three to 
four inches long, green, fleshy, the lower part rolled round the 
spathe, the upper flattened out, the apex deflexed. Spathe about 
half as long as the spadix, the part which bears the ovules 
attached on one side with, in our specimen, three broadly flask- 
shaped green fleshy ovules ; on the other, above this one, with a 
large number of small crowded roundish anthers, all round the 
upper half barren, green, cylindrical, with a few spiny processes 
at the base. Berries round, the seeds oblong-clavate, in a circle 
from the base.—J. G. B. 
I received the tubers of this curious little Arad from Mr. 
Reed, who obtained them near Bahia. It grows freely in a moist 
stove. The soil should be a mixture of sandy loam and leaf- 
mould, kept well watered when the plant is growing. When the 
leaves begin to fade the plant wants a season of warm moderately 
dry rest.—V. W. S. 
