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ARUM orixense. 
Orissa Cuckow-point. 
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MONGCIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. seat Jussieu gen. 23. Div. I, Spadix spathd invo- 
utus. 
‘ AROIDEE (includentes tam TyPHAS quam AROIDEAS Jus- 
sieuii), Brown prod. 1. 333. Sect. I. Flores diclines; Perianthio (calyce 
nob.) nullo. Aroidee vere. 
ARUM.  Spathasmonophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadix apice 
nudus, medio staminifer, antheris multiserialibus; basi femineus: szpits 
Staminibus pistillisve sterilibus fertilibus approximatis. Bacce uniloculares, 
polysperme. Semina parieti altero inserta. Jtadicula umbilico obversa. 
Brown prod. 1. 335- 
Div. Acaulia foliis simplicibus. 
A. orixense, foliis hastato-tripartitis, spathd pedunculata bicolori spadice 
longiore: apice lanceolato deflexo. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 309- 
Arum orixense. Roxburgh MSS. cum tab. pict. ined. Andrews’s reposit. 
356. Brown prod. 1.336. Carey hort. beng. in loc. 
Perenne, acaule, radice tuberosé subanfractuoso-rotundatéd, alba, mag- 
nitudine circiter ovi pullastrini minoris, fibris circa gemme matricem crt- 
nita. Folia radicalia, petiolata, profunde trilobata, 8-10-uncialia, lobis 
ovatis acuminatis repandis nervo geminato peripherie proximé parallelo & 
parte supind circumdatis: petioli teretes erevti attenuate striati 12-unciales, 
basi convoluto-vaginantes. Scapus axillaris (subterraneus) pro tanto dun- 
taxat clongatus ut spatham proximé extra humum sublevet. Spatha petiolis 
brevior striata erecta, intis rubro colorata, extis herbacea. Spadix bast 
(femineus) germinibus congestis indéque contiguo supra contectus filamentis 
sterilibus ramosis, medio antheris aggregato-circumdantibus extumescens, 
indé supra iterim filementorum priorum consimilium annulo\ crinitus; clava 
nudé coccined subulatd spadicem totum reliquam equante basi latiore subtus- 
que concavé terminatus. Roxb. MSS. (ex angl. versum). 
The species has been observed by Dr. Roxburgh in the 
East Indies and by Mr. Brown in New Holland; and was 
_ introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1802; but still continues 
to be exceedingly rare in our collections. The drawing was 
taken by Mr. Herbert from a plant that flowered last autumn 
in the hothouse of his Botanic Garden at Spofforth, a source 
from which numerous rare plants are finding their way 
among the curious. 
Among Dr. Roxburgh’s unpublished drawings in the 
Banksian Library there is a coloured representation of this 
