Pothos.) CLXVI. AROIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 553 
CEYLON, Walker. 
Stem and foliage as in the common state of P. scandens and Vriesianus. 
Pedunele often longer than the petiole, Spathe j-3 in. Spadix }-} in., its stipes 
about as long. 
6. P. macrocephalus, Scort. mss.; leaves lanceolate apiculate, 
Pide as long as the blade, peduncle 11-2 in. decurved, spathe ovate- 
cordate or orbicular cuspidate, spadix globose or shortly pyriform. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. . 
Climbing 60-80 ft.; branches as thick as a crow-quill, internodes }-3 in. 
Leaves 21-31 by i-$ in.; rather broader than the petiole. Peduncle rather stout ; 
bracts very variable, sometimes few with the longest only 4 in., at others many, and 
tin, long. Spathe 4-3 in. diam., white ; occasionally a second smaller superior spathe 
‘curs. Spadix i in, diam., or less, yellow.—This differs from P. Junghuniamus 
and macrophyllus, de Vriese (in Plant. Jungh. i. 103, 104) of Java and Sumatra 
solely in the narrower leaves and great length of the petiole. I suspect that all 
ere may prove forms of one. 
8 B. Petiole (knee only) very short; sheath very long, split to the base. 
adiz long, sessile or stipitate. 
* Spadia cylindric, dense-fld. ; flowers not in clusters. 
l P. Kin -4 in. obl blong- 
. Sli, Hook. f.; stout, leaves 6-10 by 3-4 in. oblong or oblong 
teolate candate acuminate base narrowed rounded, bracts 14-2 in., 
‘Pathe 4-6 in. ovate-lanceolate. 
PERAK ; Scortechini, King’s Collector ; alt. 2-3000 ft. 
fem 6-10 ft., asthick as a swan’s quill, branches 2-3 ft., pale. Leaves coria- 
» often unequal-sided, shining on both surfaces; petiole $ in.; sheath 3-4 in., 
ns membranous, at length fibrous, tip 2-auricled. Spathe dark purple within, 
poi pont. Spadix half as long. Ovary oblong; style very short, stigma 
b tm. Barberianus, Schott Aroid. 24, t. 53; Prodr. 573; leaves 3-5 
clan li in, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate acuminate base rounded, sheath 
be mg. the branch, peduncles terminal and axillary, spathe linear- 
Ceolate. Engler Arac. 90. 
PERAK; on rocks, Scortechini, King’s Collector.—DisTRIB. Borneo. . 
Stem slender, branches as thick as a erow-quill. Leaves thinly coriaceous, tip 
nes caudate ; petiole 1 in., sheath 2-3 in., by i-i in. broad, biauricled. 
"uncle deflexed, 1-14 in. "Spathe 3-1 in., acuminate. Spadiz as long, sessile. 
mas pulvinate, sessile. 
9. P Wallichii, H 1—4 in. oblong-lanceolate acumi- 
ook. f.; leaves 33-4 in. oblong-lanc 
an base cuneate or rounded sheath divergent from the branch, peduncles 
axi] and : ` inat P. tenera 
terminal, the linear-lanceolate acuminate. era, 
We Cat. 4439, B. (not Wall. in "Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey). P. gracilis, 
tt Prodr. 572, Engler Arac. 91 (not of Roxb.) 
PENANG P , 
d >» Porter, Curtis; PERAK, Scortechini. . 
en DI Similar to p. Barborianus in foliage, but a more slender plant, with the 
ry fer leaf-sheaths not } in, broad, the peduncle 14-3 in. long much more slender, 
i Y Stipitate spadix, and a slender minute style with a very inconspicuous 
of p. 7," Üarey's Edition of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, Wallich proposed the name 
n ener i i rden, . 
fraci]i, by Ro for an Amboyna plant cultivated in the Calcut a 
xburgh in mss. 
