Alocasia.] OLXVL AROIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 525 
* Leaves not or slightly peltate, lower nerves approximate and flabellately 
spreading. 
l. A. cucullata, Schott Melet. 18; in Œstr. Bot. Wochenbl. (1854), 
410; Syn. 48; Prodr. 156; leaves subpeltate broadly ovate-cordate nerves 
6-7 pairs, petiole very long, peduncles shorter subsolitary. Engler Arac. 498. 
À. rugosa, Schott in Wochenbl. 1. c.; S yn.49; Prodr. l.c. Colocasia cochleata, 
Nig. Epimel. Sem. Hort. Amstelod. (1853). C. rugosa, Kunth Enum. iii. 
4l. C. cucullata, Schott Melet.i. 18; Wall. Cat. 8940; Kunth l.c. 38; Thw. 
num. 336. Caladium cucullatum, Pers. Syn. ii. 575. Arum cucullatum, 
Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 656 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind.ii.501; Wight Ic. t. 787. 
BENGAL, Rowburgh (cultivated Clarke). The Kuasta Hrs, alt. 4000 ft. 
J. D. H. and T. 7 Peau, Kurz. CEYLON (native?) Thwaites. . 
Rootstock 1-2 ft., with many suckers, branched, inclined. Leaves 6-12 by 4-7 in., 
Ircular, nerves very stout; petiole 1-3 ft., green. Spathe 6-12 in. fleshy, tube 
24 in.; limb narrowly cymbiform, margins convolute. Spadix shorter than the 
spathe, appendage short. 
2. A. montana, Schott in (str. Bot. Wochenbl. (1854), 140; Syn. 
Hr Prod», 154; leaves broadly ovate-cordate repand, nerves 5-6 pairs, 
Petiole short stout, peduncles many connate below. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
w. 209; Engler Arac. 499. Colocasia? montana, Kunth Enum. iii. 40. 
m montanum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 497; Wight Ic. t. 796. 
NonTHERN Circars, Rozburgh.—DISTRIB. Java. 
Rootstock subcylindric, as thick as the wrist, with long suckers from the crown. 
ones 6-8 in., shining ; petiole 8-10 in., sheathing half way up. Spathe 4-6 in., 
loured, limb thrice as long as the tube. Spadia nearly as long as the spathe ; 
appendage 23 in, Stigma 3-4-lobed.—I have seen no specimen. 
3. A. rapiformis, Schott Prodr. 157; Engler Arac. 510. Colocasia 
“apiformis, Kunth Enum. iii. 40. 
Peau, Carey. 
sha iffers, according to Roxburgh, from A. montana in having a tuberous turnip- 
root.—I have seen no specimen. 
* Leaves not or hardly peltate, nerves pinnate. 
ks A. indica, Schott in str. Bot. Wochenbl. (1854), 410; Syn. 46 ; 
M 7- 144; leaves large ovate deeply sagittately cordate repand, lobes 
panded sinus narrow, tube of spathe many times shorter than the very 
ng linear-oblong subtruncate cuspidate limb, stigma sessile 3-4-cleft. 
Bev Fi. Ind. Bat. iii. 206; Engler Arac. 501. Colocasia indica, Kunth 
Ari" 1i. 39. Arum indicum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 498; Wight Ic. t. 794.— 
Tad. Wall. Cat, 8948, 
shortear ASIA ; native and cultivated.— DISTRIB. tropics (cult.). 
23 a" attaining 8 ft., stout, 3-8 in. diam., emitting bulbilliferous suckers. Leaves 
8 pai? tip a deflexed cusp, basal lobes sometimes very shortly connate, nerves about 
s midi Petiole stout, transversely clouded. Peduncles (always in pairs, Rozb.) 
the T than the petioles, Spathe 8-12 in., pale yellow-green. Spadia equalling 
Pathe ; appendage longer than the infl. Orary 1-celled. 
thon denudata, Engler Arac. 507; leaves triangular-sagittate, 
ong A, ""Uminate about a third as broad as long, basal lobes nearly as 
det? e anticous with the coste marginal, petiole and peduncle long 
*r. A. singaporensis, Linden in Gartenfl. xiv. 292. 
