641. 
CALADIUM odorum. 
Apple-scented Caladium. 
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MONGECIA POLYANDRIA, 
Nat. ord. AROIDER. Jussieu gen, 23. Div. I. Spadix spatha involutus. 
AROIDEE (includentes et Typhas et Aroideas Jussi.). Brown 
1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio nullo. © Aroi- 
dee. vere. ! 
CALADIUM. Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi conyoluta. Spadia 
ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quanddque nudo; medio glandulosus; base 
germinibus tectus.' Anthere peltate, sub pelt ad ambitum multiloculares. 
Glandule (stamina sterilia) obtuse. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca mono- 
sperma? Brown prod. 1. 336. 
OBS. An omnes v. plures Baccd monosperma instruct sint in posterum 
determinandum.* Bric.” : : 
C. odoratum, caudescens; foliis eordatis, basi bifidis, lobis rotundatis, pe- 
dunculis axillaribus geminis, spadice spatham cymbiformem wquante 
cum apice staminifero unam-tertiam partem longitudinis sue occupante : 
baccis 1-4-spermis. Roxburgh MSS.; (ex anglico versum.) 
Radix ¢ fibris. erassis, longée reptantibus,\ absque tamen. bulbillis in 
indico, ceterum, simillimo, frequentibus. Caudex simplex, rectus, cicatri- 
zatus, intra biennium altitudinem bipedalem (cum foliis simul-orgyalem) 
cum diametro brachtt humani acquirens. Fol. caulina, petiolata, lamini 
ovato-cordaté pedes 2-4. longa 2-3 lata, glabrata, basi fissd, apice obtusd cum 
mucrone recurvo, lobis rotundatis repandis, costa nervisque crassis subtis 
varicosis; petiolus viridis, 2-3-pedalis, totus @ dimidio inferiore vaginans, 
inde cylindricus glabratus. Pedunculi 1-flori, per paria axillares, subte- 
retes, petiolo subbreviores, bracteis spathaccis distincti. Spatha erecta, 
glabra, pallidé virens, inferné crassa, ventricosa, convoluta, persistens, su- 
perné cymbiformis cum acumine brevi, caduca. Spadix spathe subequalis 
subcylindrica; apex staminiger % cirectter totius longitudinis tenens, medium 
constrictum glandulis planis rhomboideis obsitum, basis conica germinibus 
tecta: anther numerose, rhombiformes, ad ambitum 10-12-loculares, locu- 
lis apice fissuré externd dehiscentibus: germina numerosa, 4-locularia, ovulis 
2-3 in loculo quoque, fundo affixis: stylus 0: stig. subrotundum. Baccx 
numerose, magnitudine Cerasi minoris, pro seminum numero varie rotun- 
date, glabre, nitide, coccinee, uniloculares, omni septorum vestigio in- 
crescentibus seminibus obliterato: semina sepids 1-4, subrotunda, glabra; 
integumentum simplex, recens molle atque spongiosum: albumen semini con- 
forme: embryo simplex obconicus fine folioli eaterioris plumule obtuso juxta 
apicem seminis denudato. Roxburgh MSS. (ex anglico versum.) 
The diminished representation of the entire plant was 
done by Mr. Gowen, by whom the sample was communi- 
cated from which the rest of the drawing was taken of the 
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