(allez, OXCI. AROIDEJE. 4 991 
floribus inferioribus staminibus perfectis destitutis stabilitum, minime ut nobis videtur pro genere 
diverso habendum est. 
AxnPsias, Schott, Gen. Aroid, t. 73; Engl. Arac, 230 ; genus Venezuelanum a nobis non visum, 
ex descriptione et icone auctoris a J?odospatha differt ovario 2-6-loeculari. 
75. Heteropsis, Kunth, Ewwm. Pl. iii. 59.—Flores in spadice stipitato inappendi- 
eulato hermaphroditi, v. infimi abortu 9. Perianthium 0. Stamina 4 v. pauciora, 
donum brevibus mus compressis ; ; antherw connectivum Fuporáttes, loculis brevibus 
rimulis I il libus dehiscenti Ovarium 
Toni Vadis. dilatato deplanato, perfecte v. imperfecte 2-loculare ; stylus 
in centro verticis minutus, conoideus, stigmate lineari; ovula in loculis 2, erecta, 
anatropa, funiculis elongatis placentis basi septi adnatis affixa, micropyle infera. Fructus 
.—Frutices scandentes, ramosi, ramis ramulisque gracilibus teretibus flexuosis haud 
Unite ad nodos et alibi radices emittentibus. Folia alterna, lanceolata Y. elliptico- 
lanceolata, acuminata, coriacea, costa prominula, nervis petiolo 
brevi v. brevissimo tereti, ima basi semiamplexicauli. Pedunculi breves, axillares, 
vaginis brevibus. Spatha parva, oblonga y. PIE rostrata, convoluta, cito decidua. 
iani) spatha pum, Nu p lliy y 
Schott, Gen. UL t. 16; Aroid. t. 68 ad. 60. 
76. Anadendrum, Schott. in FORK UÉ, 1857, 45; Gen. rone de 18: - (Anadendron, 
Prod. Syst. Aroid. 389.)—Flores in spadice stipitato inapp 
Perianthium 0, nisi urceolus brevis stamina et ovarium cingens. Stamina 4-6, flameiftis 
planatis late li ibus v. dratis; antherw terminales, loculis connec- 
tivum ibus erectis subrenif mibus discretis rimis elongatis extrorsum dehis- 
centibus. Ovarium obconi l: dat vertice dilatato deplanatum, 1-loculare ; 
stigma sessile, parvum, BED depressum ; ovulum solitarium, anatropum, funiculo 
brevi adscendente placentze feces sfüxum; micropyle infera. essi remotze, globos: v. 
t Semen subglob testa ]bumine 0 ; embryo 
macropodus, —Fruticuli peers t ilibus, ramis radi 
Folia disticha, oblique ovato-oblonga v. lanceolata, ácuminata, QUURIA pertusa v. pinnati- 
fida, petiolo brevi v. elongato gracili longe vagi ite apice gi vaginis p 
bus v. deciduis, marginibus latis v. angustis. . Pedunculi terminales, "solitarii v. plures, 
breves v. . elongati, smpius graciles. Spatha ovato-oblonga, navicularis, rostrata, decidua. 
Spadix spatha inclusus, swpius longe stipitatus, cylindraceus, densiflorus. Baccre 
pisiformes, rubrze. » 
Species 4 v. 5, Arehipelagi Malayani incole. Engl. Tes 95. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, t. 39 
(Scindapsus). 
ds Monstera, dine Fam.ii.470. (Tornelia, Gatierez ex Schlecht, rs Linea, xxvi. 
382. Het is, Miq. in. Limnea, xviii. 79, non Kunth. 
Serangium, Wood Sali. en. Pl. Fragm. 5.)—Flores in spadice sessili inappendicu- 
lato I steriles conici, minuti, ovario effoeto. Perianthium 0. 
Stamina 4-6, filamentis complanatis late linearibus apicibus abrupte angustis ; antherie 
breves, loculis tivum sup Sinis pi tis rimis brevibus 
l tib Ovarium obconi ticum, 4-6-gonum, vertice dilatato 
deplanato, 2-loculare ; stigma sessile, parvum, Fata oblongum v. lineare ; ovula in 
loculis 2, anatropa v. semi-anatropa, funieulis brevissimis placentis tumidis basi septorum 
adnatis affixa, micropyle infera. Bacc:e in sy ficiebus eonglu- 
tinatis Sponte solvendis, 1-2-spermsw. Semina ovoidea v. subcordiformia, esta crassius- 
cula ide solubili, albumine 0 ; embryo dus. -—Frutices dent » ramosi, 
raphidibus instructi, ramis radicantibus, Folia disticha, lanceolata v. oblonga, inmequi- 
latera, integra pertusa v. pinnatifida, petiolo elongato vaginante, vagina p t et 
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