153. AROIDER. 185 
“ Cultivated in South China” (Hance, 11459 !). 
KwawaruNG? (Knaggs!); KrasasuP (Anaggs!). Mus. Brit.; 
Herb. Kew. 
Philippines. 
There is some uncertainty about the locality of this; the plant 
which I described as A. acutispathum was bought in Hongkong 
by Dr. Knaggs and thought to come from the vicinity of Canton. 
But there is another specimen in the Kew Herbarium from a 
plant flowered by him labelled “From Shanghai. Brought home 
by Dr. H. V. Knaggs.” From this, and the statement by 
Hance on his label that it is cultivated, it seems probable that it 
may prove not to bea native of China. In my description I 
stated that it was distinct from <A. modestum, but Engler’s re- 
production of Schott’s figure of this species (Engler, Aracee, 
no. 74), which I had not then seen, demonstrates that the two 
are identical. The specimens distributed by Engler as A. mar- 
antifolium (Engler, Araces exsicc. et illustrate No. 258) also 
belong to A. modestum. 
According to a statement with Engler’s figure of the type, 
A. modestum was collected at Manila by Gaudichaud and is in 
the Paris Herbarium. 
1. Scindapsus sinensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) 
p. 234. 
SzECHUEN: Nanchuan (Bock von Rosthorn, 758, ex Engler). 
1. Rhaphidophora angustifolia, Schott, in Bonplandia, v. 
(1857) p. 45, et Prodr. Aroid. p. 378. 
Rhaphidophora hongkongensis, Schott, in Bonplandia, v. (1857) p. 45; 
Prodr. Aroid. p. 378 ; Seem. Bot. Voy. * Herald, p. 417; Engl. in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. ii. p. 240. 
Rhaphidophora sylvestris, Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. p. 239. 
Rhaphidophora Peepla, Benth. FI. Hongk. p. 344, non Schott. 
Scindapsus sylvestris, Kunth, Enum. PI. ii. p. 64; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
iii. p. 187. 
HowekowG: trailing over rocks below Buddhist temple E. 
Point (Lamont! Champion, 935! Hance ex Seemann). Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Java, Borneo. 
Bentham, Fl. Hongk. p. 344, unites this with R. lancifolia, 
Schott, and Æ. Peepla, Schott, two quite distinct species, and 
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