Cryptocoryne
(from kryptos, hidden, and koryne, a club; the club-shaped spadix is hidden by the spathe peculiar to this family). ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). Stove herbaceous perennials, requiring treatment similar to the tender species of Arum (which see).
C. ciliata (hair-fringed).* fl. sweet-scented; spathe pedunculate, long, tubular, fringed at top. June. l. entire, petiolate, oblong, linear-lanceolate. h. 1ft. East Indies, 1823.
C. spiralis (spiral). fl. brown. May. h. 1ft. East Indies, 1816. SYN. Arum spirale. (B. M. 2220.)