Tas. 7719. 
CRYPTOCORYNE Gnrirrirat. 
Native of the Malayan Peninsula, 
Nat. Ord. AnompEm.—Tribe ARINEX. 
Genus Cryprocoryneg, Fisch. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 963.) 
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Crytocoryne Griffithii; stoloniferum, foliis ad 3 poll. longis subcarnosis 
ovato- v. orbiculari-oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis v. cordatis marginibus 
subundulatis supra lete viridibus rubro-striolatis subtus pallidioribus 
creberrime striolatis, nervis utringue coste valide ad 6-8 gracillimis 
arcuatis, petiolo 6-8-pollicari basi mnguste vaginante, spathe breviter 
pedunculate tubo 3-4-pollicari albo basi oblongo tumido dein cylin- 
draceo ad 3% poll, diam. superne sensim ampliato in limbum recurvum 
1-13 pollicarem lanceolatum caudato-acuminatum intus papillosum rufo- 
branneum dilatato, inflorescentia }-pollicari, mascula gracile stipitata 
oblonga membrana operculiformi velata, appendice parvo clavato, in fl. 
fem. ovariis 8 connatis glandulosis pistillodia cingentibus, stigmatibus 
sessilibus reniformibus. 
C. Griffithii, Schott, Sun, Aroid. p, 1; Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 14; in Bonplandia, 
1857, p. 220. Engler, in DC. Monogr. P. . Vol, ii. p.- 631. 
N.E. Br. in Journ. Linn, Soe, vol. xviti. (1880) p. 244. Hook. f. Fi. 
Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 493. 
Cryptocoryne, sp., Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 139; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 173, fig. 3 
(ovula). 
Though described by Griffith (without a specific name) as 
having only six ovaries, I think that the plant here figured 
is certainly that to which Schott gave the name Giriffithit. 
The genus consists of six-and-twenty described species, all 
East Indian or Malayan ; of which one alone has been pre- 
viously figured in this work (Arum spirale, Retz., tab. 2220), 
It is remarkable for the curious hood in the interior of 
the tube of the spathe, which envelops the male inflores- 
cence, and is, no doubt, concerned in the operation of 
pollinization. Mr. Motley, in a MS. description of a 
closely allied Bornean species (cited by Mr. Brown in 
Journ. Linn. Soc., |, c.), describes the tube of the spathe 
as depending for length on the depth of the water in which 
the plant grows, thus performing the office of the peduncle 
in other water-plants ; and observes that after the pollen 
is shed the inflated portion of the tube generally contains 
half a dozen living insects, attracted probably by the slight 
carrion smell of the limb of the spathe. 
JuneE Ist, 1900, 
