Tas. 6762. 
STEUDNERA COLOCASIHFOLIA. 
Native of Burma (?). 
Nat. Ord. AnoripEm.—Tribe DIEFFENBACHIEZ. 
Genus SteupweRa, C. Koch; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 988.) 
SrrupNERA colocasiefolia ; caule brevi crasso, foliis longe gracile petiolatis ovato- 
oblongis acuminatis basi retusis, vagina elongata, pedunculo petiolis multo 
breviore, spatha oblongo-lanceolata attenuato-acuminata retorta basi aperta 
obtusa v. rotundata intus atro-purpurea extus sordide flava, spadice sesqui- 
pollicari, staminodiis clavellatis, stigmatibus placentisque 5. 
S. colocasiefolia, C. Koch in Wochenschrift. 1869, p. 114; Regel Gartenjlora, 
vol. xviii. p. 323, t.633; André Ill. Hortic. t. xix. (1872), p. 33, t.90; Engler 
Monogr. Arac. 452 (excl. var. 8 et Syn. Gonatanthus Grifithii). 
At Tab. 6076 of this work an Aroid of unknown origin, 
but supposed to have been sent from Calcutta, is figured 
under the name of Steudnera colocasiefolia, Koch, but 
which Mr. N. Brown has determined to be a different 
species, to which he has attached the name of S. discolor 
(«Gardener’s Chronicle,” vol. iv. (1875), p. 708). At that 
period there was much error in respect of the genus, which 
from its supposed affinities was concluded to be American, 
whilst the ovary had been erroneously described by both 
Koch (Wochenschrift. 1862, p. 114) and Engler (Monogr. 
Arac. p. 457) as two- to five-celled. At present about five 
species of the genus are known, viz. the present one, 8. 
discolor, Hort. Bull., from India; S. Griffithii, Schott, from 
Burma, and two undescribed ones from Cachar. 
The genus Steudnera has been referred to the tribe 
Dieffenbachiee in the “Genera Plantarum,” but it has 
much more claim to be placed in Colocasiew, where it would 
be near its close allies the Indian Ariopsis (Tab. 4222), and 
the genera Remusatia and Gonatanthus. 
The native locality of S. colocasiefolia is unknown, but 
is probably Eastern Asiatic. The plant flowers annually in 
the Stove at Kew early in spring. 
JUNE lst, 1884. 
