Stylochiton. | CL. AROIDES (BROWN). 189 
fruit, free, horizontal. Periauth apparently cupular, about 1 line deep. 
Young fruit flat at the apex, scrobiculate and puberulous; stigma 
sessile. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; near Boruma, on the 
Zambesi, Menyharth ! 
The puberulous leaves and ovaries distinguish this from all the other species of 
the genus, 
2. S. salaamicus, .V. /. Br. Leaves contemporary with the 
flowers, glabrous ; petiole 6-10 in. long, narrowly sheathing for 1—2 in. 
at the base, apparently not spotted ; blade hastate or sagittate-hastate, 
green above, greyish with dark-coloured veins and minutely dotted with 
black beneath ; front lobe 24-6 in. long, 24-4} in. broad near the base, 
oblong or ovate-deltoid, acute; basal lobes 13-4} in. long, 1-2 in. 
broad at the middle, obliquely-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, broadest at 
the middle, obtuse. Peduncle 2} in. long, solitary, axillary, glabrous 
Spathe and spadix not seen, broken off. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Dar es Salaam, Kirk / 
3. S. maximus, Zngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 466. Leaves about 6, 
contemporary with the flowers, quite glabrous; petiole 6-12 in. (or 
more ?) long, sheathing for 4-3 its length; blade 4-12 in. long, 
5-10} in. broad, deepiy cordate or cordate-sagittate, acute or obtuse, 
apiculate ; basal lobes elliptic, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, about 
half as long as the front lobe, very obtusely rounded at the apex, with 
an obtuse sinus 2~3 in. deep between them. Peduncle axillary, 2-3 in 
long, glabrous. Spathe with a tube 2-3 in. long, inflated at the base, 
cylindric above; limb 3-5 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, green outside, dark puce within. Spadix sessile, 
2}-3 in. long; female part 5-9 lin. long, of 4—5 crowded spirals of 
flowers, angular from mutual pressure; male part more or less inter- 
rupted in the basal portion, but scarcely separated from the female 
part by a distinct naked space. Female flowers with a cup-shaped 
perianth 1 lin. deep, contracted at the mouth, truncate and thickened 
at the margin, and a subglobose 2-celled ovary with axile placentation 
and a 1 lin. long style. Male flowers with a laterally compressed 
perianth } lin, deep and exserted stamens with filiform filaments 1 lin. 
long.—N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 35; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 132. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: coastland, without mention of precise 
locality or collector (ex Engler). 
Also in South Africa, 
I have seen no specimen of this from Tropical Africa, and include it on the 
authority of Engler. The above description is compiled from specimens collected at 
Delagoa Bay. 
4. S. Zenkeri, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 424. Rhizome hori- 
zontal below, at length ascending ; internodes short, but distinct. 
Leaves dark green above, pale beneath ; petiole 8-12 in. long, sheath- 
ing for 2-21 in.; blade about 6 in, long, 24 in. broad, oblong, subacute, 
