Stylochiton.'] cl. aroide.e (brown). 195 



cupular, tinmcate. Filaments of the stamens much exceedin'^ the 

 perianth, |-f lin. long, filiform ; anthers subtjuadrate. '^ 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Sangara; in sandy alluvium at Farana on 

 the River Niger, 3300 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5373 ! 



19. ZAMIOCULCAS, Schott ; Benth. et Hook. fil. 

 Gen. PI. iii. 993. 



Spathe convolute at the base ; limb horizontally spreading or some- 

 what reflexed. Spa^lix free, sessile, monoecious, stout, shorter than 

 the spathe, constricted above the ovaries, without neuter organs or 

 appendix ; female part short, cylindric ; male part cylindric or sub- 

 clavate, obtuse, closely contiguous to the female, with the lower 

 flowers abortive. Perianth-segments 4, present in both sexes, thickened 

 at the angular truncate apex. Female flowers : Stamens none. Ovary 

 subglobose or ovoid, 2-celled ; style short, cylindric; stigma ex- 

 serted just beyond the perianth, discoid; ovule soKtary in each 

 cell, erect, anatropous, on a short funicle. Male flowers with 



4 stamens surrounding an abortive ovary, included ; filaments short, 

 free ; anthers small, 2-celled, slightly connate ; cells divergent at the 

 base, opening by transverse slits. — A perennial evergreen herb, with a 

 stout creeping rhizome. Leaves pinnate; petiole with a thickened 

 articulation above the middle. Peduncles short, solitary, axillary. 



Endemic, monotypic. 



1. Z. Iioddigesii, Schott, Synop. Avoid. 71. llhizome stout, 

 creeping. Leaves all radical, erect, pinnate, IJ— 2 ft. long, including 

 the petiole, glabrous ; petiole stout, shortly sheathing at the base, with 

 a swollen articulation above the middle ; leaflets opposite or alternate, 

 S^-5|- in. long, 1-2 in. broad, oblanceolate, acute, cuneatel}' narrowed 

 to the base from above the middle, articulated to the petiole and at 

 length deciduous. Peduncle 1|— 2^- in. long, 2 lin. thick, glabrous, 

 surrounded by several bracts. Spathe green, glabrous ; tube subglobose, 

 about \ in. long and broad ; limb 1 i-2 in. long, about 1 in. broad, ovate- 

 oblong, acute, horizontally spreading or reflexed. Spadix stout, about 



5 lin. thick, constricted above the female part, very obtuse, whitish ; 

 female part J in. long; male part 9-11 lin. long. Fruit not seen. — 

 Schott, Prod. Aroid. 214; Decsne in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xvii. ;I21 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5985 ; Engl, in Nov. Act. Acad. Leopold. Nat. Cur. xxxix. 

 ^01, t. 13, fig. 24, in DC. Mondgr. Phan. ii. 2(>S, Jahrb. i. IS!), and Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 131; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 117; Lynch in 

 Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 375 ; Durand tt Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 

 472. Caladium zamuefolium, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 140S. 



irile Iiand. British East Africa : K:ibai Hills, near Moniba«a, Taylor ! 



IMEozamb. Dist. Zunzihar, cultivated s])ecinieiis, Kirfi- ! Jioirin (ex UeraUne), 

 llildehrandt (ex Enr/ler). 



Also found in t'le Island of Bourbon according to Kngler. 



This [)lant is remarkable among Aroid- in having truly pin.iatc Icivcs. wiili the 

 leartots articulated to the jjctiok', which character, liDwevcr, is also shared liy 



