Stylochiton. | CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). 195 
cupular, truncate. Filaments of the stamens much exceeding the 
perianth, 3—} lin. long, filiform; anthers subquadrate. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Sangara; in sandy alluvium at Farana on 
the River Niger, 3300 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5373 ! 
19. ZAMIOCULCAS, Schott; Benth, et Hook. fil, 
Gen. Pl. ili. 993. 
Spathe convolute at the base ; limb horizontally spreading or some- 
what reflexed. Spadix free, sessile, monecious, stout, shorter than 
the spathe, constricted above the ovaries, without neuter organs or 
appendix ; female part short, cylindric; male part cylindric or sub- 
clavate, obtuse, closely contiguous to the female, with the lower 
flowers abortive. Perianth-segments 4, present in both sexes, thickened 
at theangular truncate apex. Female flowers: Stamens none. Ovary 
subglobose or ovoid, 2-celled; style short, cylindric; stigma ex- 
serted just beyond’ the perianth, discoid; ovule solitary in each 
cell, erect, anatropous, on a short funicle. Male flowers with 
4 stamens surrounding an abortive ovary, included ; filaments short, 
free; anthers small, 2-celled, slightly connate; cells divergent at the 
base, opening by transverse slits.—A perennial evergreen herb, with a 
stout creeping rhizome, Leaves pinnate; petiole with a thickened 
articulation above the middle. Peduncles short, solitary, axillary. 
Endemic, monotypic. 
1. Z. Loddigesii, Schott, Synop. Aroid. 71. Rhizome stout, 
creeping. Leaves all radical, erect, pinnate, 1}-2 ft. long, including 
the petiole, glabrous ; petiole stout, shortly sheathing at the base, with 
a swollen articulation above the middle ; leaflets opposite or alternate, 
34-54 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, oblanceolate, acute, cuneately narrowed 
to the base from above the middle, articulated to the peticle and at 
length deciduous. Peduncle 14-24 in. long, 2 lin. thick, glabrous, 
surrounded by several bracts. Spathe green, glabrous; tube subglobose, 
about $ in, long and broad ; limb 13-2 in. long, about 1 in. broad, ovate- 
oblong, acute, horizontally spreading or reflexed. Spadix stout, about 
5 lin. thick, constricted above the female part, very obtuse, whitish ; 
female part } in. long; male part 9-11 lin. long. Fruit not seen.— 
Schott, Prod. Aroid. 214; Decsne in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xvii. 321 : 
Bot. Mag. t. 5985; Engl. in Nov. Act. Acad. Leopold. Nat. Cur. xxxix. 
201, t. 13, fig. 24, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 208, Jahrb. i. 189, and Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 131; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii, 117; Lynch in 
Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 375; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl, Afr. v. 
472. Caladium zamiefolium, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1408. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! 
‘\ Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, cultivated specimens, Kirk ! Boivin (ex Decaisne), 
Hildebrandt (ex Engler). 
Also found in tle Island of Bourbon according to Engler. 
This plant is remarkable among Aroid: in having truly pinnate leaves, with the 
leaflets articulated to the petiole, which character, however, is also shared by 
