492 CLXVI. AROIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Senge C. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth of 4-6 seg ments. 
Tribe VI. OnoNTIE&X. Spadia without an appendage. 
* Spadiz flowering downward ; ovary l-celled. 
Prickly rigid herbs; spathe many times longer than the 
sessile spadix . . . . . . . . DT, Lastra. 
Prickly rigid herb; spadix stipitate . . . . . . . 28. POoDOLASIA. 
Prickly rigid herbs; spathes twice as long as the 
spadix . . e . . ...2.2.25.25.25...Z.- 29. CYRTOSPERMA. 
Unarmed herbs; leaves membraneous, pinnate . . . 30, ANAPHYLLUM. 
** Spadix flowering upwards; ovary 1-3-celled. 
Stem scandent ; leaves distichous. . . . . . . . 891. POTHOS. 
Stemless ; leaves ensiform ; spathe 0. . . . . . . 32. ACORUS. 
1. CRYPTOCORYNE, Fisch. 
Aquatic or marsh herbs, with creeping rootstock and short stem or ` 
Leaves broad or narrow. Tube of spathe with connate margins SU 
transverse septum within. Spadix very slender, its tip adnate to t See? 
tum of spathe; male infl. cylindric ; anthers 2-celled, cells with ee nd 
perforate tips, pollen vermiform ; fem. infl. a single whorl of connate -e ‘les 
many-ovuled ovaries with a few neuters; styles short, recurved; Wé ed 
erect, orthotropous. Fruit of coriaceous connate 2-valved many 
carpels. Seeds oblong, albuminous; embryo axile.—Species abou 
tropical Asiatic. 
* Tube of spathe narrow, longer than the limb (or a$ long in C. 
Griffithii). 
l. C. ciliata, Fisch. ex Schott Melet. 16; leaves linea 
or -lanceolate, limb of spathe oblong densely fimbriate. Kunth 222; 
iii, 12; Schott Aroid. 7; Syn. 2; Prodr. 153 in Bonpland. (1857), 15 
Wight Ic. t.775; Wall. Cat. 8914; Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. t. | 907 ; 
Blume Rumph. i. 86; Engler Arac. 624, and in Beccart Males. ` 134; 
N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 245. C. elata, Griff. Notul i Vi 
Ic. Pl. Asiat. t, 170,171 (alata). C. drymorhiza, Zipp. in Miq. Ann i 
D lll. 
Bor i. 122. Ambrosinia ciliata, Rosch, Cor. Pl. iii. 90, t. 294; Fl. Ind. 
. . — BIB. 
BENGAL, in ponds, &c. (in salt marshes, Kurz). MALACCA, Grifith.—D18? 
Malay Islds, t 
Tuberous, stoloniferous, Leaves 6-16 in., lower half sheathing; ! te, fimbrig 
Scape very short. Tube of spathe 4-10 in. ; limb 2-3 in., oblong, cuspidate, seeded. 
purple. Ovaries 5-7. Fruit long-peduncled, globose, 1 in. diam. ; cells GT. by 
CR polyphyllous, germinating in the fruit. J avan specimens have leaves 1 
in. 
1 
id. 
2. C. Walkeri, Schott im Bonpland. (1857) 221; Prodr. Ka 
15; leaves long-petioled oblong or oblong-lanceolate base Cun prose 
rounded, limb of spathe linear-lanceolate strongly twisted 8 
Engler Arac. 625. C. spiralis, Thw. Enum. 334. 
CEYLON, Walker. short- 
Leaves 2-3 in., acute, thin; petiole 6 in., very slender. Scapé very 
Tube of spathe 2 in.; limb l} in. Ovaries 4-5. 
