SteudneraJ] CLXVI. AROIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 521 



6. S capitellata, Hook. f. ; leaves 8-9 by 7-8 in. orbicular-ovate 

 subacute base broadly retuse, spathe 3|-4 in. pendulous from the de- 

 curved peduncle lanceolate acuminate yellowish-brown without pale 

 purple and striated within, male infl. globose. 



BURMA ; in evergreen forests, Tonkyaghet, Kurz (Ic. in Herb. Calcutt.). 



Caudex as thick as the little finger, densely fibrous ; sheaths 4 in. Leaves pale 

 green above, paler beneath, nerves about 5 pairs, strong, arched ; petiole 1 ft., 

 slender. Peduncles many (i in the drawing), 4-5 in., very slender. Spadix -1 in., 

 fern. infl. very long. 



15. HAP ALINE, Schott. 



Small tuberous herbs. Leaves membranous, cordate or sagittate. 

 Spathe long-peduncled, tube cylindric, decurrent tightly convolute, limb 

 lanceolate or linear-oblong, flat. Spadix equalling the spathe ; male 

 and fern. infl. remote ; male Elongate ; fern, adnate to the spathe, of 

 few uniseriate ovaries. Male fl. an elongate hexagonal peltate shortly 

 stipitate body, with 4-6 minute globose anther-cells pendulous from its 

 margin. Ovaries ovoid, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; stigma disciform ; ovule erect, 

 anatropous. 



1. H. Benthamiana, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Wochenbl. (1857), 85 ; 

 Prodr. 162 ; leaves oblong-sagittate basal lobes narrow obtuse more than 

 half as long as the anticous, spathe acuminate ; Engler Arac. 489 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. (1873), 109, t. 9. Hapale, Schott Gen. Aroid. 

 t. 44. Aroid. Wall. Gat. 8953 A. 



BURMA ; banks of the Attran river, WallicJi. PEGU and MARTABAN, in dry 

 forests, Kurz. 



Tuber small. Leaves few, 3-4 in. long ; sinus deep, narrow ; petiole and peduncle 

 slender. Spathe 2-3 in. long, membranous, white. 



2. H. Brownii, Hook. f. leaves ovate acuminate deeply cordate, 

 basal lobes rounded ird the length of the anticous, spathe oblong apiculate. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Quedah, alt. 100-500 ft. King's Collector. 



Habit of H. JSenthamiana, differing in the basal lobes of the leaf and 

 form of the spathe. Named after Mr. N. E. Brown, assistant in the Kew Herbarium. 

 (See p. 490). 



16. RE1VITJSATIA, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs, flowering and leafing in alternate years ? bearing 

 long radical bulbilliferous shoots. Leaf solitary, entire, peltate. Spathe 

 coriaceous ; tube convolute, ovoid, accrescent over the fruit ; limb broad 

 or narrow, erect or spreading and reflexed,* deciduous. Spadix very 

 short, sessile, male and fern. infl. separated by neuters; appendage 0; male 

 infl. clavate, of densely packed angular table-topped male fl. and neuters ; 

 fern, short, cylindric. Stamens with a fleshy connective bearing 2-3 small 

 anther-cells opening by terminal slits. Ovaries ovoid, 1-celled ; stigma 

 sessile, disciform ; placentas parietal ; ovules many, orthotropous. 

 Berries small. Seeds albuminous, embryo axile. 



1. R. vivipara, Schott Melet. i. 18 ; Syn. 43 ; Gen. Aroid. t. 36 ; 

 Prodr. t. 137 ; in Ann. Gand. (1846), t. 66 ; bulbilliferous shoots very stout 

 euberect or ascending simple or very shortly branched, limb of spathe 



