ScINDAPSUS. | AROIDEA., 303 
the flowers; lamina entire, peltate, petiole rather short. Spathe 
coriaceous, short-stalked ; tube convolute, ovoid, accrescent over 
the fruit; limb broad or narrow, erect or spreading and reflexed, 
deciduous. Spadix very short, sessile ; male and fem, inflorescence 
separated by neuters, appendage none. MALE inflorescence form- 
ing a clavate mass of densely packed angular flat-topped florets. 
Stamens each with a fleshy connective bearing 2-3 small anther- 
cells opening by terminal slits. Frm. florets forming a short 
cylindric inflorescence. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled; stigma sessile 
discoid; ovules many on _ parietal placentas, orthotropous. 
Fruit of small clustered berries. Seeds small, albuminous, embryo 
axile.—Species 2, in India and Java. 
R. vivipara, Schott; F. B. I. vi, 521; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 1113 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 828. Arum viviparum, Roxb, Fl. 
Ind, tii, 496. 
T'ubers 1-14 in. in diam., in clusters from the crown ; bulbiferous shoots 
6-12 in. long, simple or shortly branched, ascending, flexuous, bear- 
ing at the nodes clusters of oblong squarrosely scaly bulbils ;5-} in. 
long. Leaves peltate, 5 by 3} to 18 by 12 in., membranous, orbi- 
cular-ovate or -cordate, acute or acuminate, with strong main nerves 
and fine venation between them; petiole 6-12 in. long, the sheath 
short. Spathe 4-5 in. long, coriaceous; tube 1-2 in. long, oblong 
or ovoid, green ; limb 2-3 in. leng, broadly orbicular-ovate or ovate- 
cordate, golden-yellow. Spadizx 1-1} in. long. Mate inflor. } in. 
long. 
Dehra Dun, in shady ravines (Duthie). Eastwards along the Sub- 
Himalayan tracts in Rohilkhand and Northern Oudh (Duthie). 
Distris.: Subtrop. Him. from Kumaon to Sikkim, up to 3,500 ft. ; 
also on the Khasia Hills, and on Parasnath Hill in Chota Nagpur ; 
Konkan and South to Ceylon and Java. The plant rarely flowers, 
but sends up long bulbiferous shoots from the crown of the tuber. 
9. SCINDAPSUS, Schott; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 541. 
Robust climbing shrubs, tissues abounding in acicular needles, 
Stems rooting at the nodes. Leaves ovate oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, petiole 3-6 in. long, sheathing, geniculate, the sheath often 
accrescent. Flowers 2-sexual, all fertile. Spathe boat-shaped, 
thick caducous. Spadix shorter than the spathe, sessile, cylin- 
