174 CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). [ Culeasia 
Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, very obtuse 
at the base, 4-74 in. broad; peduncles 
21-35 in. long . : : : : 
Leaves distinctly cordate at the base ; spathe 
6-8 lin. long. c : : : 
*<Stem erect, 1-3 ft. high, with long stilt-like roots. 
11. C. angolensis. 
6. C. parviflora. 
_ Leaves 3-5 in. broad, elliptic, subacute . < . 12. C. Mannit. 
Leaves 1}-2# in. broad, oblanceolate or oblanceolate- 
oblong, acuminate . : : : . 13. C. striolata. 
Leaves 3~1 in. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate 14. C. gracilis. 
1. C. scandens, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 4, t. 3. Stem climbing, 
14-24 lin. thick, minutely tubercled, glabrous. Leaves 3-3 in. distant, 
spreading, glabrous; petiole 1—3 in. long, sheathing up to 1-6 lin. from 
the top; blade 3-7 in. long, 14-3} in. broad, varying from lanceolate 
to elliptic, more or less oblique, shortly and somewhat abruptly acumi- 
nate, acute or more or less rounded at the base, immersed glands linear 
or dot-like. Peduncles 2—4 together at the ends of the branches, rarely 
solitary, 1-23 in. long, rather slender, glabrous. Spathe 14-1} in. 
long, convolute to half way up when in flower, and afterwards nearly 
to the top, green; limb elliptic-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, hooded or 
deeply concave. Spadix at first about 4 in. longer than the spathe, . 
after the fall of the anthers $—3 in. longer; female part about 5—6 lin. 
long, cylindric, laxly floriferous; male part 1-1} in. long, 2—2} lin. 
thick, cylindric-fusiform, or somewhat clavate, stouter than the female 
part, densely covered with anthers, of which the lower are abortive. 
Ovaries scattered, depressed-globose, seated in slight depressions of the 
axis; stigma large, discoid, sessile-—Kunth, Enum. iii. 46; Schott, 
Synop. Aroid. 115, Prod. Aroid. 218, and Gen. Aroid. t. 50; Hook. 
Niger Fl. 527; Kotschy & Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 42; Engl. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. ii. 102, in Pfl, Ost-Afr. C. 131, and in Jahrb. xv. 447 ; Engl. & 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Kambia, under trees, Scott-Zlliot, 4229 ! 
near Berria, Scott-Elliot, 4459a! between. Bumban and Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 
5743! and without precise locality, Smeathman! Afzelius! Isert (ex Schott), 
Lagos: interior, Rowland ! near Lagos, Moloney! Niger Territory: Nupe, climbing 
about the roots of trees and on river banks, Barter, 1471! River Quorra (Niger), 
opposite Stirling, Vogel, 204! Niger Delta: banks of the River Nun, Mann, 516! 
Cameroons : between Cameroon and Gaboon, Bucholz (ex Engler); Victoria Moun- 
tains, Mann (ex Engler); and without precise locality, Preuss, 1333! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Bongo; by the River Mokloio, near Dukuttu, 
Schweinfurth, 2806! not far from the River Dembo, Tinne, 11 (ex Kotschy Ss 
Peyritsch); Jur; Genana, near Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1354! and 3756 (ex 
Engler). Uganda, climbing on trees, Scott-Elliot, 7373 ! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island in the Lower Congo, Laurent (ex Durand § 
Schinz). Congo, Smith, 41! Stanley Pool, Demeuse (ex Engler). Angola: Golungy 
Alto ; in the woods of Mata de Quisuculo, near Bange, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 
