Leea and Aquilicia have, of late, been considered as not possessing sufficient essentially differing characters to constitute two genera, and Aquilicia has been lost in Leea. Our present subject is a species of the former Aquilicias, is mentioned by Gaertner, who says, it approaches A. sambucina, now Leea sambucina; to which indeed it has much resemblance, but differs in having opposite, not alternate branches, being scentless, having the leaves rather rough and the stem smooth. It is a native of the East Indies, requiring the tan-bed to make it flower; is half shrubby, and is increased by cuttings. Flowers in August. Our figure is from a specimen communicated to us by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. who raised it from seeds received from Dr. Roxburg, in 1801, under the name of Leea crispa: which is a native of Africa, and has been long in most of our collections of hot house plants, but is in the highest state of cultivation, under the care of Mr. Hoy, in that of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, Sion House, near Brentford. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLVI. ARUM ORIXENSIS. _Orixian Cuckow-pint._ CLASS XX. ORDER XI. _GYNANDRIA POLYANDRIA._ Chives on the Pointal. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Spatha monophylla, maxima, oblonga, basi convoluta, apice connivens, ventre compressa, interne colorata. _Spadix_ clavatus, simplicissimus, spatha paulo brevior, coloratus, inferne germinibus obvallatus, marcescens supra germina. COROLLA nulla. STAMINA. Filamenta nulla, nisi nectaria basi crassa, desinentia in cirros filiformes, duorum ordinum e medio spadice egredientes. Antheræ plurimæ, sessiles, tetragonæ, cirrhorum duplici ordine interjectæ, spadici adnatæ. PISTILLA. Germina plurima, basin spadicis vestientia, infra stamina collocata, obovata. Styli nulli. Stigmata villis barbata. PERICARPIA. Baccæ totidem, globosæ, uniloculares. SEMINA plura, subrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Sheath one leaf, very large, oblong, convolute at the base, converging at the top, the belly compressed, coloured within. _Sheathed-Fruit-stalk_ club shaped quite simple, a little shorter than the sheath, coloured, set round with seed-buds on the lower part, withering above the seed-buds. BLOSSOM none. CHIVES. Threads none except the honey-cups, which are thick at the base and terminated in thread-shaped tendrils, issuing in two rows from the middle of the sheathed fruit-stalk. Tips many, sitting, four sided, fixed to the fruit-stalk, and disposed between the two rows of tendrils. POINTALS. Seed-buds many, cloathing the base of the fruit-stalk, set below the chives, inversely egg-shaped. Shafts none. Summits bearded with soft hairs. SEED-VESSELS. As many berries, globular, and one-celled. SEEDS. Many, roundish. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Arum, acule; foliis ternatis, venosis, discoloribus; spatha declinata; flore atro-purpureo. Cuckow-pint, stemless; leaves threefold, full of veins, two-coloured; sheath bent downward; flower of a deep purple.