Refugium Botanicum.] [June, 1873. 
TAB, 346. 
Natural Order AROIDES. 
Sub-order DIcLINES. 
Tribe SPATHICARPE. 
Genus Gamocniamys (Baker). Spadix ad spatham dorso per totam 
longitudinem adnatus. Flores foeminei exteriores. Ovarium 
sessile infundibuliforme 4—7-loculare staminodiis cinctum, 
loculis uniovulatis, ovulis ascendentibus, stigmate peltato 
stellatim 4—7-lobato. Stamina fertilia inter flores foemineos 
per dimidiam superiorem spadicis imposita, antherarum loculis 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus connectivo carnoso producto 
coronatis, filamentis crassis carnosis liberis vel pluribus inter 
sese connatis. 
G. HETERANDRA (Baker). Species sola. 
A native of Africa. 
Rootstock bearing a solitary leaf which is developed before the 
spathe. Petiole two feet long, channelled down the face in the 
upper part, rounded on the back. Blade cordate-ovate, bright 
green, glabrous, rather fleshy in texture, a foot long, eight to nine 
inches broad, deeply pinnatifid; the divisions acute; the veining 
pinnate, without any intramarginal line; both primary and 
secondary branches erecto-patent. Pedwnele rather shorter than 
the petiole, firm, erect, subterete. Spathe green, fleshy, boat- 
shaped, acute, four to five inches long, the margins edge to edge 
permanently in the lower part. Spadix half as long as the 
spathe, adnate to it through its whole length, bearing about 
thirty female flowers, which consist of an ovary surrounded by 
imperfect stamens. Ovary flask-shaped, with four to seven cells, 
each containing a single ovule ascending from the inner side at 
the base; the peltate stigma with as many lobes as the ovary has 
cells. Fertile stamens placed in a row in the midst of the female 
flowers on the upper half of the spadix; the jilaments of some 
free to the base, of others confluent, four or five together; the 
longitudinally dehiscing anthers crowned by the produced fleshy 
connective. 
Tas. 346.—1, vertical section of inflorescence, natural size. 2, free 
stamen; 8, bundle of connate stamens; 4, pistils surrounded by 
staminodia; 5, vertical section of ovary; 6, horizontal section of 
ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
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