Brachyspatha.] CXXXV. AROLDER. 155 
or sessile and decurrent. Scape above 1 fi. Spatha acuminate, 
spreading, 4 to 5 in. long. Flowering ea of the spadix about 2 in.. 
the Ste part much uis ger than the female, the terminal appendage 
slightly fasiform, Ayo 8 to 10 in. long or even more.— Amor- 
Hiskia variabilis, Blume, Rumphia, i. 146, t. 35. 
N. Australia. North coast, R. Brown ; Port Darwin, Schultz, u. 562, 
The species is also in the Malayan Archipelago. R. Brown, Prod. 337, referred 
the leaves of this E which he had gathered on the North Coast, to Lie 
which he i ` 
nati 
however, with v very differe Moret is i katketa 6 only [im fro om PODÍA Ameri 
and west, tropical Africa 
9. COLOCASIA, Schott. 
Spatha w 
ith a convolute persistent base, the lamina long lanceolate 
deciduous. Flo 
owers unisexual, the females at the base of the spadix 
by short ovoid neutral organs without any 
i. : l A 
"y x and sometimes obsolete. Perianth none. Anthers quet 
n copious.—Seapes and leaves radical, 
rge, doen or peltate, undivided. 
The 
as limited by NM dne ca of very few species xs the warmer 
rons Teo the = World. The ustralian spani are also widely dispersed in 
e ne of them is us fon ans cultivated. 
Ves peltate. Ovules 
Lea es cM D dACHIND 
ves broadly hastitevcottate A Ovulés rather few . . . 2. C. macrorrhiza, 
et antiquorum, Schott, Meletem. 18; Prod. Syst. droid. 138.— 
ovate, more or less peltate and cordate, otten above 1 ft. long 
the pon th 
the pin mE ie lamina 6 in. long or more. = Sp ix much bred 
a jr 
Pais rather Se z to l in. long, the neutral part shorter, the male 
mes obsolet HS the terminal appendage much shorter and some- 
Wight, i At €. Stigmas almost sessile.—F. Muell. Fragm., viii. i 
786 ; Caladium acre, R. Br. Prod. 336. 
Endeavour River, Banks and Selander ; Rockingham Bay, 
maane T is much Pier ilese in Moti An e Afi and dften 
d, but its real native e country is not well asc ronde 
2, x ane? 
| c. Macrorrhiza, Schott, Meletem. 18.— Leaves dhin T long 
