Scindapsus] CLXVI. AROIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 543 
uniform anastomosing, petiole as long as the blade or longer stout winged 
to the knee, peduncle very stout, spathe 3 in. cymbiform acuminate, spadix 
ut. S. marantæfolius, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 187. Cuscuaria maranti- 
folia, Schott Gen. t. 80; Prodr. 398; Engler Arae. 251. C. spuria, Schott 
m Bonpland. ix. (1861), 367. Aglaonema? cuscuaria, Mig. Le 217. 
C Ranphii, Schott in Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bot. i. 130. 
NICOBAR Isrps.; (Jelink. in Herb. Calcutt.)—DistR1B. Malay Islds. . 
Rootstock very stout. Leaves coriaceous, costa stout, base unequal-sided.— 
The my specimen is an imperfect one, but agrees so far with the Javan plant. I 
have taken the synonymy from Engler. 
25. RHAPHIDOPHORA, Schott. 
Habit and characters of Anadendrum, but spadix sessile, perianth 0, 
ovales man parietal; the many-seeded berries confluent and their tissue 
loaded with intercellular needles; seed albuminous, embryo axile.— 
Pécies about 30, tropical Asiatic, Australian and Polynesian. 
I greatly doubt the value of characters taken from the stigmas of dried 
Specimens of this genus, Scindapsus and Epipremnum, whether raised or sessile in 
e crown of the ovary, and whether orbicular or oblong, or linear ; they appear to 
QUE in form with age, and certainly do so in drying. The nerves of the leaves 
"hich afford characters in the dried state are often invisible in the fresh. 
* Leaves entire and imperforate (see also R. pertusa). 
daga not more than half the length of the blade (a rather variable 
Se e crassifolia, Hook. f.; leaves 6-7 by 11-2 in. subfalcately lanceo- 
acuminate thickly coriaceous base narrowed acute or rounded, nerves 
rry cure, petiole 13-23 in. slender channelled up to the blade, peduncle 
eege Spathe 3 in. cylindric apiculate, stigma raised. 
RAK, King’s Collec or. 
Stem 20-30 ft, as thick as a goose-quill or thicker. Leaves very dark grey and 
d when dried, with recurved margins ; costa rather slender, nerves sunk in the 
ton 2 Most obscure above and there marked only by superficial wrinkles, absolutely 
to] neath under the smooth epidermis. Spathe thickly coriaceous, cream. 
resem] varies A in. diam., with raised pulvinate central stigmas,—( osely 
textu s R. angustifolia, Schott, in form of foliage, but quite distinct in the 
ad nervation of the leaves and in the large spathes. In the Calcutta 
N ton of drawings is that of a plant named Pothos ventricosa, Wall. mss. from 
^^ Bengal, Which resembles this ; the spathe is represented as purple. 
E Main ; 2-23 in. oblong-lanceolate 
Ve gayi, Hook. f.; leaves 6-8 by 2-23 in. oblong 
So shining above, base CN nerves uniform and raised on the upper 
v 
^ isti h erecto-patent, petiole 
th Primary very slender but distinct beneath er 
pe Pathe sessile ZA in. cylindric beaked, stigma cireular depressed on 
A ace of the (dry) ovary. 
LACCA, on trees M 2 
Tent} Ne spe cimens are "imperfect, the leaves being detached from a portion of appa- 
Yellow p, rtuous branch as thick as the little finger. Leaves coriaceous, drying 
W own, costa rather slender, the apparent difference between the nervation of 
the igo aes is great, the nerves in the upper being raised through the shrinking o 
» Whilst beneath the erecto-patent primaries are capillary, the secondaries 
