Wake-robin, or Ethiopian Arum: A genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the gynandra class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 2d order, Piperae. The spathe is plain; the spadix covered with florets; there is no calyx; no petals; and the berries are monoecious. Of this there is but one species. It hath thick, fleshy, tuberous roots, which are covered with a thin brown skin, and strike down many strong fleshy fibres into the ground. The leaves have footstalks more than a foot long, which are green and succulent. The leaves are shaped like the point of an arrow; they are eight or nine inches in length, ending in a sharp point, which turns backward; between the leaves arise the footstalk of the flower, which is thick, smooth, of the same colour as the leaves, rises above them, and is terminated by a single flower, shaped like those of the arum, the hood or spathe being twisted at bottom, but spreads open at the top, and is of a pure white colour. When the flowers fade, they are succeeded by roundish fleshy berries, comprised on two sides, each containing two or three seeds. This plant grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope. It propagates very fast by offsets, which should be taken off in the latter end of August, at which time the old leaves decay; for at this time the roots are in their most inactive state. They are so hardy as to live without any cover in mild winters, if planted in a warm border and dry soil; but, with a little shelter in hard frost, they may be preserved in full growth very well.

Calla-Sufung, a town of Asia, in the island of Bouton in the East Indies. It is seated about a mile from the sea, on the top of a small hill surrounded with cocoa nut-trees. See BOUTON.