186 CL, AROIDEZ (BROWN). [ Anwbias. 
solid cylindrical body.—Jahrb. xv. 462; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fi. 
Afr. v. 476; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fase. 2, 65. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, on stones at the foot of trees, Braun, 5 
(ex Hagler). 
South Central. Congo Free State: Ncoca, Demeuse ; at the confluence of 
the Kasai and Sankuru Rivers, Laurent (ex De Wildeman § Durand). 
Var. sublobata, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 463. Differs from the typical form in 
having a narrow oblique lobe on the outer side of the basal lobes.—Durand & Schinz, 
‘Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 476. 
Upper Guinea. Togoland: at Jego, Kling, 36 (ex Engler). 
I have not seen this species. 
Imperfectly known species. 
8. A. nana, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 423. Rhizome creeping, 
internodes short. Leaves small; petiole 14-1 in. long, sheathing to 
the middle or beyond ; blade about 2} in. long, 11-1} in. broad, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, cordate at the base ; veins numerous, curved, ascend- 
ing. Peduncle 2-2} in. long. Spathe 3-1 in. long, lanceolate, acum1- 
nate, slightly convolute, pale green. Spadix longer than the spathe, 
cylindric ; female part 34 lin. long; male part 7 lin. long. Ovary 
depressed-globose.—Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Berl. ii. 281. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria, Lehmbach. 
I have not seen this species, but, judging from the description, I think it is 
probably a small state of the variable 4. Barteri, Schott. 
17. CALLOPSIS, Engl. in Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 27. 
Spathe expanded to the base, persistent. Spadix moneecious, shorter 
than the spathe, covered with unisexual flowers, without an appendix 
or neuter organs ; female part adnate throughout to the spathe, unl 
lateral; male part free, a short distance from the female part, cylindric. 
Perianth none. Female flowers few, laxly subbiseriate ; ovary 1-celled ; 
style short, conoid; stigma small; ovule solitary, basal, anatropous; 
staminodes none. Anthers of male flowers sessile or subsessile, crowded 
into a cylindric spike, subquadrate, 2-celled ; cells opposite, subovoid, 
opening at the apex by a confluent oval pore.—A herb with a creeping 
rhizome, and petiolate entire cordate leaves. Peduncle as long as the 
petioles. 
An endemic monotypic genus. 
Engler places this genus in the tribe Pothoidee, but in my opinion it should be 
placed in the tribe Zomicarpee, and stand next to Zomicarpella, from which it 
‘differs chiefly in habit and in having no appendix to the spadix, and is certainly more 
nearly allied to that genus than any other known to me. ‘The two other gener 
belonging to the Zomicarpee are natives of Tropical America, and Callopsis 's 
therefore interesting as forming another connecting link between the African aud 
- American Floras. 
1. ©. Volkensii, Engl. in Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 27. 
Rhizome slender, creeping; internodes very short. Roots crowded, 
