524 OLXVI. AROIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Colocasia. 
i low.— 
covered with flat neuters ; appendage slender, narrowed to the tip, golden yelow = 
In a fine drawing of this species in Herb. Calcutt. the stigma is rep 
disciform. 
; leaves 
3. C. fallax, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 28; mE Weg Taiho 
orbicular-ovate base cordate or emarginate, nerves strong, eal style 
4-6 times shorter than the lanceolate limb, fruiting sup 40 Marea. 
short, stigma disciform. C. Wendlandii, Engl. Ic. ined. No. , 
Wall. Cat. n. 8952 A. 14000 ft 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., Clarke. Kuasra Hirrs, alt. l- 
. D. H. .T . . . e 
7 Tuber small. “heaves 4-6 by 3-5 in., largest 8 by 7 in., much thicker ine 
and with much stronger nerves than C. afinis. Spathe and spada 
inf. Anthers 
afinis, but usually with fewer neuters between the male and fem. infi 
stellately crenate in both. 
ub- 
4. C. virosa, Kunth Enum. iii. 39 (in part); leaves large ori than 
undulate and repand, base retuse, tube of spathe oblong CR » adix four 
(but hardly distinct from) the narrowly lanceolate b "i Pro dr. 139; 
times shorter than the spathe, appendage 0. Schott Sy i tht Ic. b. 808. 
Engler Arac. 494. Calla virosa, Rowb. Fl. Ind. iii. 517 ; 9 9 
Zantedeschia virosa, C. Koch Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. (1854), App. 3 
BENGAL and the lower Provinces of India, Roxburgh. . . s long, 
Stem short, simple, cylindric. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 6-15 in. ; petiole about D As 
terete, smooth, green. Peduncles clustered. Spathe nearly straig ltate 8-12- 
convolute. Spadix 3 in., obtuse, lower third female. Anthers eg us 3-4.— 
celled ; ovaries broadly ovoid 1-celled, stigma large subsessile peltate ; p & 
Descript. from Roxburgh ; nothing farther being known of this plant. 
: ve 
5. C. Mannii, Hook. f. ; leaves oblong-ovate base sagittate 1059s lai 
obtuse sinus broad acute, spathe narrowly oblong cymbiform, 8p 
as long as the spathe sub-acute, appendage 0. 
UPPER Assam; at Makum, Mann. bes 4 in.; petiole 
Leaves 8-12 by 4-7 in., nerves 6-7 pairs, not stout, basal lo 214 jn.; male 
1-3 ft. Peduncle rather slender. Spathe 6-7 in., tube lin. Spadia thers stellately 
infl. 1 in. intermediate space 4 in.; male 14-1}, tip rounded. Anther 
crenate. Ovaries globose, stigma a discdid area. 
. vate- 
6. C. gigantea, Hook. f. petiole pruinose, leaves very larg idate, 
cordate, spathe 6 in., limb oblong or elliptic-oblong eymbiform 4 eunt). 
appendage very short acute. C. indica, Engler Arac. 49 
Lencocasia gigantea, Schott in str. Bot. Wochenbl. (1857), 34; Prodr. 
(excl. syn. pruinipes). 
PERAK, Scortechini.—DisTRIB. Cochinchina, Java. . d; nerves 8-10 
Leaves 18-20 by 14-18 in., base deeply cordate, margin repan Peduncle very 
pairs, very stout; lobes 6-8 in., rounded, sinus open ; petiole 2-3 ft. ct. Spa ix 
stout, tall. Spathe 5-6 in., coriaceous; tube 21 in., glaucous, limb ere lindric, ter- 
yellow, fem. infi. 1} in. conie; neuter infil. 1 in. slender ; male stout, ` narrow, 
minating in a rudimentary conic appendage. Ovaries very d. The ovaries 
stigma very broad, covering the whole ovary; ovules parietal, scatterec. 
are quite unlike those of its congeners. 
19. ALOCASIA, Schott. 
: haps 
Characters of Colocasia, but ovules few, basilar, erect.— Species Pet 
20 or 30, tropical Asiatic. 
