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P L A T E CCCLVI.
A R U M O m X E N S I S .
O r i x i a n Cuckow-pint.
C L A S S XX. ORDER XL
CrVNANDRIA POLYANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Many Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHAKACTEK.
CALYX.^ Spatha monopliylla, maxima, oblonga,
bali convoluta, apice connivens, ventre
comprellaj interne colorata.
Sjtadix clavatus, fimpliciffimns, fpatha pauIo
brevior, coloratus, interne germinibus obvallatus,
marcelcens fupra germina.
COROLLA nulla.
STAMINA. Filamenta nulla, nifi neaaria bafi
crafla, dcfiiientia in cirros filiformes, duor
um ordinum e medio Ipadice egredientes.
Antherae plurimse, fefliles, tetragonae,
c i r r l i o r um duplici ordine interjeólae, fpadici
adnatae.
PisTiLLA. Germina plurima, bafin fpadicis
v e l i i e n t i a , infra ftamina collocata, obovata.
Styli nulli. Stigmata vilHs barbata.
PERICAKPIA, Baccae totidem, globofae, uniloculares.
SEMINA plura, fubrotunda.
EMPALEMENT. Sheath one leaf, very large, oblong,
convolute at the bafe, converging at
t h e top, the belly compreffed, coloured
wiihin.
Sheathed-Fruit-flalk club fliaped quite fimplc,
a liitle Ihorter than the flieath, coloured,
fet round with feed-buds on the lower part,
w i t h e r i n g above the feed-buds.
BLOSSOM none.
CHIVES. Threads none except the honey cups,
which are thick at the bafe and terminated
in thread fliaped tendrils, iifuing in two
rows from the middle of the flieathed fruitflalk.
Tips many, fitting, four fided, fixed
to the fruit-iialk, and diipofed between tha
t « o rows of tendrils.
POINTALS. Seed-buds many, cloathing the bafe
of the fruit-ftalk, fet below the chives, inverfely
cgg-lhaped. Shafts none. Summits
bearded with foft hairs.
SEED-VESSELS. AS many berries, globular, and
one-celled.
SEEDS. Many, roundifli.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
A r a m , acule ; foliis ternatis, venofis, difcolorib
n s j fpatha declinata; flore atro-purpureo.
Cuckow-pint, ftehilefs; leaves threefold, full of
veins, two-coloured; flieath bent downward
; flower of a deep purple.
R E P E R E S C E TO THE PLA'TE.
1. The whole floxver, ftewn from the front with the Iheath opened, to expofe the parts
of IruftificatiGU. r r
THIS pretty plant is a native of the Eaft Indies, in that country from which it derives its fpecific title
I t has muc h afBnity wi t h many others of the Genus, which at firft fight appear rather as varieties, than
m e r i t i n g to be treated as fpecies; but, in this inftance, we fubmit our judgment to that of Dr.'fioxburg,
by whom it has been introduced to us under the name it here bears, in the year 1802 ' Our
figure was taken, in the month of Oi tober 1803, from a plant in the colleilion of J . Vere, Efq. Kenfington
Gore. The flower is Icentiefs.