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Rhektophylium. | CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). 173 
habit and put forth the adult form of leaf, demonstrates that it is merely the juvenile 
state of Rhektophyllum mirabile, which with increasing age loses its remarksble 
variegation and develops the large slit-like perforations between the lateral veins of 
the leaves so characteristic of the latter plant, 
14. CULCASIA, Beauv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 980. 
Spathe convolute to half way up or at the base only, after flowering 
convolute to the apex and persistent for a while, or at once falling off. 
Spadix longer or shorter than the spathe, free, monecious, without an 
appendix; male and female parts contiguous ; lowest stamens often 
abortive. Perianth none. Ovaries crowded or scattered, 1—2-celled ; 
stigma sessile, discoid or cushion-like, large or small. Ovules solitary 
in each cell, basal, anatropous. Anthers free, sessile, crowded, trigonous 
or angular, 2-celled ; cells oblong, parallel, opening by a small pore just 
below the apex. Berries globose or ellipsoid, 1-2-seeded. Seed ellipsoid ; 
testa very thin; albumen copious; embryo very small, seated in a 
cavity at the base of the albumen.—Stems climbing or erect, rooting. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, reticulately veined, usually with 
immersed linear or dot-like glands, and often with sessile superficial 
glands; petiole sheathing. Peduncles terminal, 2-several fascicled or 
in a short raceme, or solitary. 
An endemic genus of about 14 species. 
*“Stem climbing or creeping. 
Spadix longer than the spathe. 
Leaves obliquely oblong, oblong-lanceolate or 
elliptic-oblong, seldom less than 12 in. broad ; 
spathe 14-13 in. long : - IL. C. scandens. 
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 4-1 in. broad; spathe 
3-lin.long. . : ; . 2. ©. lancifolia, 
Spadix shorter than the spathe. 
Leaves acute or obtuse at the base, but not cordate. 
Leaves tapering to a long acuminate point. 
Leaves chiquely lanceolate, 24-5? in. long. 
Peduncle 13—2 in. long; spathe about 
1 in. long : ‘ . 8. C. insulana, 
Peduncle about 4 in. long; spathe 12 in. 
long : 4. C. faleifolia, 
Pedunele about 5 lin. long ; spathe 7 q lin, 
long : 5. C. lanceolata. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, 4-12 i in. long ; : pedun- 
cles 3-4 together, 3-1} in. Bee ; spathe 
2in. long . : 7. C.tenuifolia. 
Leaves shortly excavated at the apex ; berries : 
very large. 8. C. Dinklagei. 
Leaves rather abruptly short-pointed (apex not 
described in 9, C. obliquifolia). 
Leaves obliquely-oblong, acute at the base, es 
Ain. or more broad; peduncles 2in. long 9. C. obliquifolia. 
Leaves obliquely-oblong, obtuse at the base, : 
2-34 in. broad; peduncles 1-1} in. long 10. C. barombensis. 
