156 CXXXV. AROIDER. [ Colocasia. 
or more, very broadly hastate-cordate, with the venation of C. a 
quorum, but not at all or only very slightly peltate. Spatha and e 
very similar to those of that species as far as can be ascertained from 
imperfectly dried specimens, the laminæ of the spatha rather broader 
and the terminal appendage of the spadix longer. Anthers usually 2, 
2-celled (or 4, o to each flower or cluster. Ovary 1-celled, with 
Muell. Sard viii. 187; Oaladium macrorrhizon, R. Br. Prod. rm 
Alocasia macrorrhiza, Schott, Prod. Syst. Aroid. 146. 
Queensland. Ipswich, .Verist.; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Rockingham Bay, 
Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. ; 
N. S. wW Hastings River, Beckler ; Richmond River, Mrs. Hodgkinson. 
I have not found any specimen in Brown’s herbarium. The species is widely 
spread over tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
4. RHAPHIDOPHORA, Hassk. 
Spatha open to the base, usually very deciduous. Flowers hermaphro 
dite or the lower ones without stamens, in acylindrical spike covering the 
whole of the gs Perianth none. Stamens 4 to 6, adnate to the 
sides of the ovary, or the anther-cells free, opening outwards in long" 
tudinal slits. Urs with a thick angular fleshy truncate apex 
lower part. Leaves M and deeply pinnatifid or in species not Au* 
tralian smaller and entir 
The genus as limited by Schott comprises s few cep Mss East India or th? 
Malayan Archipelago, one of which isalsothe Australian o 
1. R. pinnata, Schott in Bonplandia, v. 45 ; Prod. Syst. Arne 
,— Stems climbing on trees to a great height. Leaves often 3 
curved P 
nected to about 4 in, from the centre, sometimes distinct almost to = 
his, the terminal ones often united in a large broad lobe, all exce? 
the lowest penniveined with a prominent central nerve and fine oblique 
veins starti ng from it, and also numerous fine veins starting from e 
general midrib or rhachis of the leaf, the lower lobes sometimes wit 
only the fine veins, the base of the leaf cordate truncate or almost 
acute. Spatha very pomo leaving a Minim noe va 3 or 4 D, i 
but very imperfect in the Australian specimens seen.—R. vitiensis 9? 
R. RTE Behott,i in Bonplandia, ix. 367. 
[ A. Cunningham; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Fitzroy Island 
Walt ET Deam, Koen. The species is also : in the Malayan Archipelag? 
