Synantherias.\ AracecB. 357 



Moist low country ; apparently rare. I only know it as an inhabitant 

 of the Gardens at Peradeniya, where it is apparently wild. Rambukkana 

 (Thwaites). Fl. April. 



Also in Malabar (?), 



I doubt this being other than a smaller variety of y^. campatiulatus. 

 The spathe is frequently blotched or spotted with white, and it then 

 seems the A, virosu^, N. E. Br. figured in Bot. Mag. t. 6978. 



\^A. giganteus, Bl., beautifully figured in Rumphia, i. t. 34, is given by 

 Blume as a native of Ceylon, but in error.] 



8. ST N ANTHER! AS, Schott. 

 Tuber depressed-globose, bulbilliferous ; 1. i or 2, appearing 

 with the fl., 3-partite, segments pinnatifid, veins pinnate 

 meeting in an intramarginal one ; spathe long-peduncled, very 

 short, sacciform, convolute, suddenly narrowed into a very 

 short, erect, acute point or cusp; spadix stipitate, appendage 

 sessile, long, caudiform, infl. cylindric, as long as the spathe, 

 male of scattered or fascicled groups of anth., distant from 

 the fern., with interposed oblong, depressed peltate, smooth 

 neuters; anth. minute, sessile, obcuneate ; ov. small, globose, 

 style very short, or o, stigma capitate, 3-lobed, ovules sub- 

 basilar, anatropous ; fr. of globose berries; seeds of Amor- 

 pliophallus. — Monotypic. 



S. sylvatica, Schott, Gen. Aroid. t. 28 (1858). 



Herm. Par. Bat. 88 (.?). Amorphophallus zeylaiiicus, Bl. Rumph. i. 

 148; Thw. Enum. 335. Brachyspatha zeylanica, Schott, Syn. Aroid. 36; 

 Thw. Enum. 443. Trim. Syst. Cat. 98. C. P. 3733. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 518. Wight, Ic. t. 802 {Arum sylvaticiim), Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7190 (from a Ceylon specimen). 



Tuber i-2| in. diam. ; 1. long-petioled, a foot broad or 

 less, leaflets few, ovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate 

 or caudate, 5-6 in. long, lower on the divisions smaller, petiole 

 6-18 in., pale green, streaked with darker; ped. up to 8 in. 

 long, pink clouded with dirty green, basal sheaths short, 

 scarious, pale pink; spathe 1-3 in. long, pale pink spotted 

 with green, purple within towards the base; spadix up to 

 10 in. long, erect, appendage up to 7 in. by f in. diam., but 

 often more slender, sometimes tapering from the middle to 

 base and apex, purple, smooth ; anth. in groups of 4-6, minute, 

 purple or pale pink; ov. green, stigma yellow; neuters as 

 large as the groups of stamens or larger, oval or oblong, disci- 

 form, pale, shining. 



Dry region; rather common. Trincomalie, Paterson, 1782 (Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.); DambuUa; Habarana; Polonama; Uma-oya. Fl. Sept., Oct. 

 Also in S. India. 



