tinguishes Synantherias irom Amorphophallw ; and it was 

 owing to their being overlooked, or disregarded, that led 

 to the plant being placed in the latter genus by Blume. 

 In one respect only the specimen here figured differs from 

 Synantherias (as also from Amorphophallus) and that is in 

 the anthers not being collected round a disk, but scattered 

 irregularly over the surface of the spadix. This, however, 

 is in accord with Roxburgh's drawing and description, 

 which are the authorities for Synantherias; the fact being 

 that the character is a very unstable one, the anthers being 

 only partially aggregate in Ceylon specimens, and densely 

 so in Bombay ones. 



Whether Synantherias should be retained as a distinct 

 genus, or be referred to the section Brachyspatha of Amor- 

 phophallus (with which it agrees in all other characters 

 except the presence of neuter organs), or form a separate 

 section of the latter genus, is a doubtful matter. It is very 

 closely allied to the Javanese A. (Brachyspatha) variabilis, 

 -Blume, and until more is known of its immediate allies, it 

 may remain where Schott and Engler have left it. 



tf. sylvatica is probably widely spread in the Deccan 

 Peninsula; Roxburgh had it brought to him at Samulkote, 

 where he cultivated it, from the mountains of the Oircars ; 

 IMlzell and Gibson state that it is common in the Southern 

 uoncan, and there are specimens in Kew Herbarium from 



V^y a ala ? ar - Accordi *g to a note of Schott's in 

 iinglei a Aracea^m. zeylanicus is a native of Java as well 



last centur * ** WaS discoyered in the middle of the 



p Q L he Pk n t ^ ere % ured was sent from the Botanical 

 gardens, Ceylon, to those of Kew in 1886, where it 



Oollf ?J? St ° Ve in Ma ^ 1890 > and ^nt up a leaf in 

 October of the same year.—/. D. H. 



3. OTarv' V ri i ^ni m ^ Z W l th male ' female ' imd neater flowers ! 2 » 8tamen > 

 >. oraiy , 4, vertical section of ditto -.-all enlarged. 



