550 CLXVI. AROIDEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 
27. LASIA, Lour. 
A stout spinous marsh plant; rhizome branched and petiole peduncle 
and leaf nerves beneath all prickly. Leaves long-petioled, rii gs so 
or pedately pinnatifid. Spathe very long, narrow, fleshy, twisted, bas 
convolute, deciduous. Spadiæ short, cylindric, dense-fld., flowering down-. 
wards. Sepals 4-6, obovate, tips truncate incurved. Stamens 4-6, d 
ments short, flat ; anther-lobes parallel, slits extrorse. Ovary ovoid, Le ol 
l-ovuled; style stoat; stigma depressed; ovule pendulous from tk : ito 
the cell, anatropous or semi-anatropous. Berries obpyramidal, 6-side 4 : p 
warted or muricate. Seed compressed, rugose, exalbuminous; embry 
macropodal. 
L. heterophylla, Schott Melet. 21; Kunth Enum. iii. 67 Mm, 
Ind. Bat.iii.176. L. Zollingeri, Jenkinsii, and Hermanni, Scholl y "i 
pland. v. (1857) 195. L. desciscens, Schott in Ann. Mus. Lugd. de 
Thw. Enum. 336 ; Engl. Monog. Arac. 273. Pothos Lasia, Roxb. ch P 
438; Wall. Cat. 4447. P. heterophylla, Beet, l.c. 437; Wight m "e 
P. spinosa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4447. Dracontium spinosum, 40%. 
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From tropical Ster Hrwarava, Assam, BENGAL, and Burma, southw 
SINGAPORE and Ceyr1oN.—DisTB1B. Malay Islds., China. hastate or 
Rootstock 1 in. diam. Leaves 6-18 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, young d deeply 
sagittate with broad or narrow basal lobes, older often broader than long, Phenthing 
pinnatifid, base cordate, lobes 1-costate acuminate; petiole terete, 2-4 dech 8-14 in. 
towards the base. Peduncle about as long as the petiole, slender. Spat fruiting 
claret-colrd., opening at the base only. Spadix about 1 in., claret-colr’. 
4-5 in. and 1 in. diam. 
28. PODOLASIA, AN E. Br. 
re 
Habit and characters of Lasia, and like it prickly, but the, leave lly 
always entire, the spathe short, open to the base, the ovule 1$ Jobose, 
attached towards the base of the ovarian cells, and the berries are 8 
quite smooth, and entirely exserted beyond the sepals. 
P. stipitata, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1882, ii. 70. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector.— DisTRrB. Borneo. | es 8-14 in. 
Rootstock as thick as the little finger or thicker, creeping. Le tion of the 
broad or narrow, hastate or sagittate, 6-12 in. broad across the inser C 
petiole ; basal lobes parallel divaricating or horizontal, j-4 in. broad, a 
minate; petiole as long as the blade or shorter, slender. Peduncle shor adiz about 
petiole, very slender. Spathe 3-5 in., narrowly cymbiform, deep red. P he spadix, 
3 as long as the spathe, red ; stipes ł—-} in. Berries j in. diam., few on t 
red. 
20. CYRTOSPERMA, Grif. 
ded, 
Perennial warted or prickly herbs. Leaves hastate. Sp athe qonse 
straight or twisted, base convolute or not, persistent. Spadi ET" digmens 
fid., flowering downwards. Sepals 4-8, truncate, tip incurve™ opary 1- 
4-8, filaments short, flat; anthers ovate-oblong, slits extrorse ous, pe^ 
celled; stigma sessile, pulvinate; ovules 1 or more, semi-anatro d crowded 
dulous by long funicles from near the middle of the cell. Ber" 
