Anadendtum.] CLXVI. AROIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 541 
needles in (the pericarp, and apparently macropodal embryo, all point to Anadendrum. 
ere are needles in the tissue of the petioles, which I do not find in any other 
Anadendrum, 
24. SCINDAPSUS, Schott. 
Climbing shrubs with the characters of Anadendrum, but the spadix 
8 sessile, there is no cupular perianth, and the pericarp of the berries 
abounds in intercellular needles.—Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, 
ustralian and Polynesian. 
See note under genus Rhaphidophora. 
* Leaves obliquely ovate elliptic or lanceolate. 
LS, officinalis, Schott Meletem. i. 91; Gen. t. 81; P rodr. 395; 
branches wrinkled when dry, leaves 5-10 by 23-6 in. ovate elliptic-ovate 
* nearly orbienlar caudate-acuminate base rounded or slightly cordate, 
Primary nerves distinct, petiole 3-6 in. broadly winged up to the knee, 
Spathe 4-6 in, oblong subcylindrical beaked. Kunth Enum. iii. 63 ; Mig. FI. 
M. Bat. i, 452; Engler Arac. 954. Pothos officinalis, Roch, Fl. Ind. i. 
Bl; Wight Ic. t. 778; Wall. Cat. 4436. Calla ovata, Herb. Ham. 
Tropica, HrwALAYA; from Sikkim eastwards, BENGAL, CHITTAGONG, BURMA, 
and the ANDAMAN Isrps. . 
Stem as thick as the little finger. Leaves dark green. Pedunele solitary, 
terminal, much shorter than the petiole. Spathe about 4-6 in. long, green without, 
Yellow Within, beak slender. Spadiz equalling the spathe, elongating in fruit, 
steenish-yellow, Stigma elongate; fruiting hemispheric. Berries, few only 
"pening, fleshy, Seed ovate-cordate.—Fruiting spadix sometimes a span long. 
i S. pictus, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1844), 58; PI. Jav. Rar. 159; 
uches angled and muriculate when dry, leaves 5-7 by 14-5 in. falcately 
*vate-lanceolate to broadly ovate acute or acuminate, petiole 1- 1} in. 
“lnged to the knee, spathe 1}-2} in. cymbiform beaked. Mig. Fl. Ind. 
t. iti, 183; Schott Prodr. 393; Engler Arac. 952. S. pothoides, Schott 
SCH (not of Mig.). S. argyrwa, Engler l.c. 255. 
RAX; King’s Co .— DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 
Stem ft. as “Iie oe s goon qui or more, 4-6-angled when dry through 
seiten of the tissues, and pale red-brown. Leaves thickly coriaceous, dull. 
CH ? Nerves very close and slender, primary and secondary hardly distinet. 
lea uncles equalling the petiole, very stout. Spathe white. Spadia green.—The 
Ves of young plants are orbicular-cordate, green blotched with white. 
*. S. Sco ly wrinkled when dry not 
eh rtechinii, Hook. f.; branches deeply wri 
a ticulate, leaves 3-6 by 14-24 Ei ovate orbicular or falcately lanceolate, 
ée r acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, primary nerves very 
Té, petiole 2-53 i inged, spathe 13-23 in. ovate 
dcuminate, 91 in. broadly winged, sp 2 
paix; Scortechini, alt. 3-4000 ft., King’s Collector; on Maxwell's Hill, 
ane Scandent, as thick as a swan's quill or less, pale, wrinkled, other. 
disti 1 ZE smooth, Leaves thickly coriaceous; nerves very many, primary har y 
mup EI hable from the secondary ; petiole winged to the knee or $ way up. Pedunc 
shorter than the petiole. Spathe yellowish on both surfaces. Spadie much 
s about 4 in. diam. across the crown. 
