522 OLXVI. AROIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Remusatia. 



reflexed broadly orbicular-obovate cuspidate. Kunth Enum. iii. 36 ; Miguel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 205; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 259; G-rah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 

 228; Wall. Gat. 8939; Engler Arac. 496. Caladium viviparum, Lodd. 

 Bot. Gab. t. 281. Oolocasia vivipara, Thw. Enum. 336. Arum viviparum, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 496 ; Wight Ic. t. 798.Rheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 9. 



SUBTBOPICAL HIMALAYA ; alt. 2-3000 ft. from Kumaon to Sikkim. The KHASIA 

 HILLS and BUEMA. BKHAE, on Parasnath, alt. 4500 ft., Clarke. The WESTEEN 

 GHATS, and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Java. 



Tuber size of a hazel or walnut, viviparous shoots 6-11 in., bulbils squamosely 

 crinite. Leaf 5 by 3 to 18 by 12 in. membranous, orbicular ovate or cordate, acute 

 or acuminate ; petiole 1 ft. or less. Spathe 4-5 in. long, tube green, limb 2-3 in. 

 broad, golden yellow. Spadix 1-1? i Q - 



2. R. Hookeriana, Schott in (Estr. Bot. Wochenbl. (1858), 133; 

 Prodr. 187 ; bulbilliferous sboots slender prostrate or pendulous much 

 branched, lirnb of spathe erect ovate-oblong acuminate. Engler Arac. 497. 



TBMPEBATE HIMALAYA ; Simla to Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Tuber as in R. vivipara. Leaves ovate-oblong, cordate, caudate-acuminate 

 beneath between the nerves ; petiole 2-9 in. Spathe l-2 in., limb -f in. broad, 

 sometimes coppery, more or less convolute. 



17. GONATANTHUS, Klotzsch. 



Tuberous herbs, with the habit foliage and bulbilliferous shoots of 

 Remusatia, but the shoots are branched and the spathe has a slender 

 elongate convolute limb, there are no neuters between the male and fern, 

 inn., and the ovules are numerous and basilar. 



G-. sarmentosus? Klotzsch in Link & Kl. Ic. PI. i. 33, ii. 14 ; leaves 

 ovate-cordate. JZunth Enum. iii. 36 ; Schott Syn. 44 ; Gen. t. 39 ; Prodr. 

 142; Bot. Mag. i. 5275; Gartenfl. (1868), 227, t. 588; Engler Arac. 571. 

 Caladium pumilum, Don Prodr. 21. Colocasia ? pumila, Kunth Enum. 

 iii. 40. Aroid. Wall. Cat. 8952. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 4-6500 ft. KHASIA HILLS, 

 alt. 4-5000 ft. 



Tuber small and slender branched shoots with the small crinite bulbils of 

 Hemusatia Hookeriana. Leaves peltate, acuminate, dark green above ; petiole 

 4-8 in. Peduncle 2-3 in. Spathe 6-10 in. long, tube ^-f in., ovoid, green; base 

 of limb as long or longer than the tube, inflated, reclined, the rest suberect, 

 with a long recurved tip, golden yellow, contracted at the base, margins completely 

 convolute. Spathe with the fern. infl. in the tube, the stipitate clavate red-brown 

 male in the swollen base of the limb. Spadix 1-1 in. long; stipes of male infl. 

 angular and crown of anthers chocolate-brown ; fern. infl. short, ovaries few closely 

 packed, globose, stigma a disciform area. Berries yellow. Seeds on long funicles, 

 ovoid ; testa rough, with a fleshy yellow coat. 



2. C.? ornatus, Schott in (Estr. Sot. Zeitschr. (1858), 121 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate base cordate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Thomson. KHASLA HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. fy T. T. 



In the absence of inflorescence this is an altogether doubtful plant. It differs 

 from Q. sarmentosus in the much narrower leaves, 5-10 by l-3 i n -> which in the 

 originally described Khasia specimens were of a fine coppery-purple between the 

 green nerves and the broad green margin. In specimens apparently of the same 

 plant from both Sikkim and the Khasia" Hills, the leaves are green and concolorous. 

 No bulbilliferous shoots have been seen. 



