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: Tas. 6076. 
: STEUDNERA conocast#routra. 
Native of South America. 
Nat. Ord. AroinE2.—Tribe ASTEROSTIGME. 
Genus Sreupnera; (Koch in Regel Gartenflora, 1869, p. 323). 
STEUDNERA colocasiefolia ; caudice brevi crasso vaginis brunneis tecto, foliis 
longe_petiolatis, petiolo tereti, lamina peltata concava ovato-oblonga 
acuminata basi modice emarginato-2-loba, subtus glauo-viridi maculis 
brunneis latis infra nervos irrorata, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus et 
tenuioribus viridibus, spatha ampla tota aperta late ovata acuta recurva 
flava disco pallide et sordide rufo-purpurea, spadice spatha multo 
breviore obtuso parte fceminea dorso spathe fere toto adnata, ovariis 
confertis staminodiis brevibus clavatis circundatis hemisphericis 
2-locularibus, stigmate sessile discoideo 5-gono, antheris columne- 
formibus late truncatis loculis 7-8 parallelis connectivo columnari 
carnoso longitudinaliter adnatis, 
STEUDNERA colocasizfolia, Koch, 1. c. 
According to Regel and Koch this singular Aroid is a 
native of South America, whence it was imported by Linden, 
if, as I venture to think, the plant here figured and for 
Which T an indebted to Mr. Bull, is the Stewdnera colocasiafolia 
of Koch. Of this a comparison with Regel’s description 
and plate would leave no doubt in my mind, were it not 
that Mr. Bull’s plant has many staminodes and a 2-celled 
ovary, whilst Koch’s has but one or two staminodes, and a 
5-celled ovary ; the number of staminodes is very likely to 
be variable, as is frequently the case with arrested organs, 
and our plants having, like Koch’s, 5 rays to the stigma 
would indicate the probability of there being sometimes as 
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_ Many cells to the ovary 
4 regret having no information as to the exact habitat of 
his plant. Mr. Bull believes that he received his specimen 
tom Calcutta, but it is certainly not an Indian form. it 
longs to Schott’s section or tribe of Asterostigmea, and its 
tes are for the most part American; it, however, closely 
Tesembles in the form “and colouring of the foliage a very 
JANUARY Ist, 1874. 
