Tab. 7190. 



SYNANTHERIAS sylvatioa. 



Native of India. 



Nat. Ord. AnoiDEiE. — Tribe Pythonie^e. 

 Genus Synantijerias, Schott.; (Benth. et Hook./. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 972.) 



SYNANTH£HiA8*yJi>atoca; folio longe petiolato pedatisecto, segmentis late- 

 rahbus dichotomis intermedioque irregularite sectis pinnatifidis v. 

 bipmnatifidis, laciniis ultimis lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatisve, pedunculo 

 gracili striato, spatha brevi cylindraceo-campanulata oblique hiante acuta 

 y. apiculata fusco-viridi irrorato-maculata, spadice breviter stipitata, 

 mil. mascula cylmdracea exserta, staminibus sparsis v. varie aggregatig' 

 femmea brevi inclusa, ovariis globosis 2-3-locularibus, organia neutris 

 uniseriatia oblongia depressis rugosis, appeudice caudiformi valde 

 elongato palhde brunneo, basi paullo incrassato. 



S. sylvatica, Schott Gen. Aroid. t. -28 ; Prodr. Syst. Avoid, p. 176 ; Enohr 

 Monog. Arac. p. 320. F ' ^ r 



Brachyspatha sylvatica, Schott Synops. Aroid. p. 35 ; Engler I.e. 314. 

 B. zeylanica, Schott Syn. Aroid. p. 36. 



Amorpbophallua zeylanicus, Blume Bumph. vol. i. p. 148; TAwaites Enum. 

 p. 335. 



A. sylvaticus, Kunth. Enum. vol. iii. p. 34 ; Bah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 259. 



Arum sylvaticum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 511; Wight Ic. PI. Ind 

 Or. t. 802. 



Arum polypbyllum, &a., Herman Hort. Lugd. Bat. 60. 



Arum foliia palmatis, &c, Van Boyen Hort. Lugd. Bat. vii. p. 2. 



Dracunculua zeylanicus polyphyllus 0, Linn. F. Zeylan. p. 198 et 422. 



Dracontium caule immaculato, &c, Hermann Parad. Batav. p. 88. 



After a careful comparison of the specimen in the 

 Kew Herbarium with the description and drawings of 

 Roxburgh, Schott, Engler, and the plant here drawn, 

 I am convinced that all refer to the same plant. Dis- 

 regarding the descriptions of the authors of the last 

 century (which I have extracted from Blume), it is first 

 and excellently described and figured by Roxburgh in the 

 collection of drawings which he had made in India 

 (now at Kew), and the figure is copied in "Wight's 

 Icones." In it the so-called neuter flowers are each repre- 

 sented in their positions between the male and female 

 inflorescences, and are described as smooth irregular 

 glandular bodies. It is the presence of these whioh dis- 

 AuotrsT 1st, 1891. 



