358 AraceCB. {Remusatia, 



According to Bl. (1. c), this was obtained by Koenig in woods between 

 Tangalla and Mataia, and by him sent to Van Royen. 



Schott and Engler both having kept Syjianthcrtas as a distinct plant 

 from Aiiwypliophallus zcylanicus^ I gave both species in my Syst. Cat. 

 Ceyl. PI. 98, though suspecting they were really the same. .Sir J. Hooker, 

 in Bot. Mag. 1. c, has finally settled the question. 



Trimen, in a note in Herb. Pcraden., describes the appendage of a 

 specimen collected at Habarana, Sept. 1885, as coppery, purple, or 

 yellow.— J. U. H. 



9. REKZUSATIA, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs, flowering and leafing in alternate years (?) 

 emitting long, leafless, bulbilliferous shoots from the crown of 

 the tuber; 1. solitary, entire, peltate; spathe coriaceous, tube 

 convolute, constricted at the mouth, accrescent, limb spreading 

 or reflexcd, explanate, deciduous; spadix very short, sessile, 

 fern. infl. included in the tube, male exserted, appendage o; 

 male and fem. infl. distant, male clavate, of densely packed 

 flat-topped anth. mixed with neuters, connective cubical,, 

 fleshy, with 2-3-small immersed anth. -cells opening by terminal 

 slits ; fem. infl. short, cylindric, ov. closely packed, ovoid, 

 I -celled, stigma sessile, disciform, ovules many, on parietal 

 placentas, orthotropous ; berries few, small ; seeds with an 

 axile embryo and endosperm. — Sp. 2 in Fl. B. Lid. 



R. vivipara, Sc/tott, Mcletcm. i. 18 (1832). 



Colocasia I'lvipara^ Thw. Enum. 336. C. P. 2323. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 522. Wight, Ic. t. 798 {Arum vn'iparuiii). 



Tubers i-i^ in., clustered, depressed, rooting from the 

 crown ; bulbilliferous shoots simple or very shortly branched, 

 annulate, 6-12 in. long, and as thick as a goosequill or thicker, 

 ascending, flexuous, bearing at the nodes clusters of oblong, 

 squarrosely scaly bulbils -^V-i i"- long ; I. peltately long- 

 petioled, 5 by 3^ in. to 18 by 12 in., membranous, orbicular, 

 ovate or cordate, acute or acuminate, basal lobes rounded, 

 sinus obtuse, veins 3-5 from the top of the petiole and 3-4 

 pairs from the midrib, all meeting in an intramarginal one, 

 and all united by very slender close -set simple venules, 

 petiole 6-12 in., sheath very short; spathe 4-5 in. long, 

 coriaceous, tube 1-2 in., oblong or ovoid, green, limb 2-3 in., 

 broadly orbicular-ovate or -cordate, explanate, 2-3 in. broad, 

 golden yellow; spadix i-i^ in., male portion \ in. long. 



Rocky places in forests of lower montane zone ; rather common. FL 

 also on hills of India, Burma, Java. 



The foliage is quite like a Ca/ddiiii/i. 



