FLORA VITIENSIS. 287 
“ Observatio III. R. pinnata ore orientalis tropice Australie a beato Cunningham collecta, ob seg- 
menta angusta vix truncata potius acuminata, angusta diachymatis portione connexa et venas auxiliares 
costales paucas, distincta species esse videtur, R. Cunninghami nuncupanda."— Schott, 1. c. 
. 9. R. Storckiana, (sp. nov.) Schott in Seem. Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 346; petioli 7-10-polli- 
cares, vagina petiolari ad basin geniculi usque producta; lamina fol. 10-11 pollices longa, 3-34 pol- 
lices lata, oblongo-elliptica, basi cuneata, apice subsensim angustata, acuta, apiculo brevi aucta, venis 
et venastris oo, subsquitenuibus, approximatis, parallelis, patentibus, marginem versus sursum 
arcuatis, basi coste decurrentibus; spatha tripollicaris et ultra acuta; spadix spatha paullo brevior. 
—Island of Ovalau (Storck! n. 911). 
* Affinis R. Peepla, Schott, tamen differre videtur petiolis longioribus, vagina ad basin geniculi termi- 
nata, fol. lamina inferne cuneatim angustata, apice acuta tantum et brevissime apiculata, nec acuminata."— 
Schott, 1. c. 
V. Cuscuaria, Rumph.; Schott, Prodr. Aroid. p. 397; ejusd. Gen. n. 80, tab. 80, Spatha 
cymbzeformis, ad basin usque hians, tandem decidua. Spadix sessilis, flosculis hermaphroditis onus- 
tus. Stamina 4, filamentis late linearibus; antherze haud exsertze, loculis apiculatis connectivo lon- 
gioribus. Ovarium 1-loculare, l.ovulatum, stylo manifesto, abrupte+e verticis centro exserto co- 
noideo brevi, stigmate hemispherico, stylo tenuiori impeltato. Ovulum basifixum, anatropum, 
breviter funiculatum, dorso parietem inferiorem (in spica) versus spectante.— Ramuli spadicigeri ab- 
breviati, internodiis brevissimis. Petioli vagina sensim angustata, ad geniculum non protensa, mar- 
cescenti-decomposita, aucti. Lamina integerrima, densissime ac tenuissime venosa. Pedunculi 
solitarii. 
1. C. spuria, (sp. nov.) Schott in Seem. Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 367; petiolus 9-10 pollices 
longus, vagina inferne lata, apicem versus angustata, infra geniculum desinente auctus; geniculum 
longulum ł-pollicare, subincrassatum ; lamina fol. 14-15 pollices longa, 53-6 pollices inferne lata, 
oblonga, modice inzquilatera, basi abrupte rotundata, imo breviter cuneata, apicem versus sensim 
leviterque angustata, exitu subabrupte rotundata, brevissime cuspidulata, venis venastrisque copio- 
sissimis rectiusculis subzequicrassis in pseudoneurum marginale patentissime anastomosantibus.— 
Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 655). 
VI. Cyrtosperma, Griff. Itin. Notes, vol. iii. p. 149; Schott, Prodr. Aroid. p. 402 ; ejusd. 
Gen. n. 84. tab. 84. Spatha vix contorta, tota longitudine tandem aperta, marcescenti-persistens. 
Spadix cylindricus. Flosculi 6-meri. Ovarium 1-loculare, 2-ovulatum, ovulis parietifixis, collatera- 
libus, infra medium loculamenti exsertis, fere longule funiculatis, anatropis, micropyle ampla 
fundum versus spectante. Pericarpium abortu monospermum. Semen curvatum, reniforme, mar- 
ginato-cristatum. Albumen carnosum? Embryo hippocrepicus.— Folia omnia hastata; petioli ut 
pedunculi aculeis armati. 
1. C. edulis, (sp. nov.) Schott in Seem. Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 367; petioli 15-16-pollicares, 
inermes; lamina fol. hastata, lobis acuminato-acutatis, juvenculz subzqualibus, vetustae inzequalibus, 
lobo medio pollices circiter 7-8 longo, 12 lato, linea valde arcuata apicem versus angustato, posticis 
ineequalibus inzequilateris extrorsis v. valde extrorsis, oblique oblongo-ovatis, ovato-oblongis v. sub- 
lanceolato-oblongis, apicem versus gradatim angustatis, exitu obtusulis apiculatis, 8-10 pollices 
longis, 44-54 pollices latis; costis (posticis) fere horizontaliter exsertis, infima parte in sinu amplo 
denudatis, exitu vix bicruri.—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, ** Via Kana."—Viti Levu, in swamps, and 
also cultivated (Seemann! n. 653). 
The corms are baked and eaten, their flavour being considered by the natives to be superior to that of 
the Via mila (Alocasia Indica, Schott). 
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