174 CL. AROiDE^ (brown). [C.'ulcasia 



Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, very obtuse 

 at the base, 4r-7^ in. broad ; peduncles 

 2^-3^ in. long . . . . . 11. C. angolensis. 



Leaves distinctly cordate at the base ; spathe 



6-8 lin. long ...... 6. C. parvijlora. 



='"!'Stem erect, 1-3 ft. high, with long stilt-likeroots. 



Leaves 3-5 in. broad, elliptic, subacute . . .12. C. Mannii. 



Leaves l5-2f in. broad, oblanceolate or oblanceolate- 



oblong, acuminate 13. C. striolata. 



Leaves ^1 in. broad, lanceolate, acvite or acuminate 14. C. gracilis. 



1. C. scandens, Beauv. FL Owar. i. 4, t. 3. Stem climbing.. 

 l\-2h lin. thick, minutely tubercled, glabrous. Leaves |-3 in. distant, 

 spreading, glabrous; petiole 1-3 in. long, sheathing up to 1-6 lin. from 

 the top ; blade 3-7 in. long, 1 J-oJ in. broad, varying from lanceolate 

 to elliptic, more or less oblique, shortly and somewhat abruptly acumi- 

 nate, acute or more or less rounded at the base, immersed glands linear 

 or dot-like. Peduncles 2-4 together at the ends of the branches, rarely 

 solitary, 1-2| in. long, rather slender, glabrous. Spathe l^-lf in. 

 long, convolute to half way up when in flower, and afterwards nearly 

 to the top, green ; limb elliptic-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, hooded or 

 deeply concave. Spadix at first about J in. longer than the spathe, 

 after the fall of the anthers J-J in. longer ; female part about 5-6 lin. 

 long, cylindric, laxly floriferous ; male part 1-1^ in. long, 2-21 lin. 

 thick, cylindric-fusiform, or somewhat clavate, stouter than the female 

 part, densely covered with anthers, of which the lower are abortive. 

 Ovaries scattered, depressed-globose, seated in slight depressions of the 

 axis; stigma large, discoid, sessile. — Kunth, Enum. iii. 46; Schott, 

 Synop. Aroid. 115, Prod. Aroid. 218, and Gen. Aroid. t. 50 ; Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 527 ; Kotschy & Peyr. PI. Tinn. 42 ; Engl, in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. ii. 102, in Pfl. Gst-Afr. 0. 131, and in Jahrb. xv. 447 ; Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 116, and Nachtr. zu ii.-iv. 58; Durand <fc 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 471, and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 275; Rendle 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 90 ; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 

 fasc. 2, 64. Caladium scandens, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 489. Denhamia 

 scandens, Schott, Melet. 19. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Kambia, under trees, Scott-Elliot, 4229 ! 

 near Berria, Scott-Elliot, 4459a ! between Bumban and Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 

 5743 ! and without precise locality, Smeathman ! Afzelius ! Isert (ex Schott), 

 Lagos : interior, Roioland ! near Lugos, Moloney ! Niger Territory : Nupe, climbing 

 about the roots of trees and on river banks. Barter, 1471 ! River Quorra (Niger), 

 opposite Stirling, Vogel, 204 ! Niger Delta : banks of the River Nun, Mann, 516 !. 

 Cameroons : between Cameroon and Gaboon, Bucholz (ex Engler) ; Victoria Moun- 

 tains, Mann (ex Engler) ; and without precise locality, Preuss, 1333 ! 



Wile I.and. British East Africa : Bongo; by the River Mokloio, near Dukuttu, 

 Schweinfurth, 2806! not far from the River Dembo, Tinne, 11 (ex Kotschy Sf 

 Peyritsch); Jur ; Genana, near Jur Ghatta?, Schweinfurth^ 1354! and 3756 (ex 

 Engler). Uganda, climbing on trees, Scott-Elliot, 7373 ! 



X»ower Guinea. Princes Island in the Lower Congo, Laurent (ex Durand (Sf 

 Schinz). Congo, Smith, 41 ! Stanley Pool, Demeuse (ex Engler). Angola : Golungo 

 Alto ; in the woods of Mata de Quisuculo, near Bango, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch,. 



