Gonatopus. | CL, AROIDEZ (BROWN). 197 
broad, oblong, acuminate into a long subulate point, expanded, recurved 
or revolute. Spadix sessile; female part about } in. long and about 
4 in, thick ; male 24-34 in. long, about 5 lin. thick, constricted at the 
base, with the lowest flowers more or less imperfect. Perianth-seg- 
ments of both male and female flowers oblong, truncate at the triangular 
apex. Ovary ovoid, narrowed into a short style, 2-celled; stigma large, 
peltate, just exserted from the perianth, pea-green. Stamens in the 
male flowers 4, connate around an abortive ovary, entirely absent in the 
female flowers ; anthers subquadrate, white. Fruit not seen.—Engl. in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 209; Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 117, and Pflanzenw. 
Ost-Afr. C. 131; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 472. Zamio- 
culcas Boivini, Decsne. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xvii. 321; Hook. f. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 6026. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor / 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Boivin (ex Decaisne), Hildebrandt (ex Engler). 
German East Africa : coast opposite Zanzibar, cultivated specimens, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; in the Shire Valley, opposite to the rapids of Zedzane, 
Kirk, 339! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 186! Mount Mlanji, McClounie, 51! 
Also (according to Engler) in the Island of Réunion. 
2. G. angustus, V. /. Br. Tuber turnip-shaped. Leaf solitary, 
erect, 14-44 ft. high, tripinnatipartite, glabrous ; lowest branches 10-12 
in. long, about 5 in. broad ; leaflets or ultimate segments 1}-3 in. long, 
13-4 lin. broad, probably sometimes larger, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, more or less decurrent at the base, not articulated to the rhachis. 
Peduncle 2-3 in. long, smooth. Spathe glabrous; tube 1-1} in. long, 
oblong-ovoid ; limb about 3 in. long, and 1} in. broad, reflexed, oblong, 
cuspidate. Spadix sessile, shorter than the spathe ; female part 8—9 lin. 
long, about } in. diam. cylindric; male part about 23 in. long, cylin- 
dric, obtuse, 1ts basal portion for about 8 lin. constricted to about half 
the thickness of the upper portion and covered with abortive flowers. 
Perianth-segments oblong, truncate at the angular apex. Ovary ovoid, 
narrowed into a short stout style, 2-celled; stigma rather large, peltate, 
exserted just beyond the perianth-segments. Stamens in the male 
flowers 4, connate into a tube around an abortive ovary and equalling it 
in length, entirely absent in the female flowers. : 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Zambesi Valley; in copses on 
mountains near Boruma, Menyharth, 922bis ! 
21. CYRTOSPERMA, Griff.; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. 
Pi. iii. 997. 
Spathe convolute at the very base, open above, ovate-lanceolate, 
persistent. Spadix free, densely covered with hermaphrodite flowers, 
without an appendix or neuter organs, Perianth-segments 4-6, free, 
imbricate, somewhat hooded at the truncate apex. Stamens 4-6; 
filaments short and broad ; anthers short, 2-celled ; cells oblong, open- 
-ing by longitudinal slits, extrorse. Ovary ovoid, l1-celled ; stigma 
