524 OLXVI. AROIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Colocasia. 



covered with flat neuters ; appendage slender, narrowed to the tip, golden yellow. 

 In a fine drawing of this species in Herb. Calcutt. the stigma is represented as 

 disoiform. 



3. C. fallax, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 28; Prodr. 138; leaves 

 orbicular-ovate base cordate or emarginate, nerves strong, tube of spathe 

 4-6 times shorter than the lanceolate limb, fruiting subspherical, style 

 short, stigma disciform. C. Wendlandii, Engl. Ic. ined. No. 240. Aroid. 

 Wall. Gat. n. 8952 A. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., Clarke. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-4000 ft. 

 J. D. H. and T. T. 



Tuber small. Leaves 4-6 by 3-5 in., largest 8 by 7 in., much thicker in texture 

 and with much stronger nerves than 0. affinis. Spathe and spadix much as in 

 affinis, but usually with fewer neuters between the male and fern. infl. Anthers 

 stellately crenate in both. 



4. C. virosa, Kunth Enum. iii. 39 (in part) ; leaves large ovate sub- 

 undulate and repand, base retuse, tube of spathe oblong much shorter than 

 (but hardly distinct from) the narrowly lanceolate blade, spadix four 

 times shorter than the spathe, appendage 0. Schott Syn. 41 ; Prodr. 139 ; 

 Engler Arac. 494. Calla virosa, JKoxb. PL Ind. iii. 517 ; Wight Ic. t. 808. 

 Zantedeschia virosa, G. Koch Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. (1854), App. 9. 



BENGAL and the lower Provinces of India, Roxburgh. 



Stem short, simple, cylindric. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 6-15 in. ; petiole about as long, 

 terete, smooth, green. Peduncles clustered. Spathe nearly straight, subulate, 

 convolute. Spadix 3 in., obtuse, lower third female. Anthers peltate, 8-12- 

 celled ; ovaries broadly ovoid 1-celled, stigma large subsessile peltate ; placentas 3-4. 

 Descript. from Roxburgh ; nothing further being known of this plant. 



5. C. ZHannii, HooJc.f. ; leaves oblong-ovate base sagittate lobes very 

 obtuse sinus broad acute, spathe narrowly oblong cymbiform, spadix half 

 as long as the spathe sub-acute, appendage 0. 



UPPER ASSAM ; at Makum, Mann. 



Leaves '8-12 by 4-7 in., nerves 6-7 pairs, not stout, basal lobes 4 in. ; petiole 

 1-3 ft. Peduncle rather slender. Spathe 6-7 in., tube 1 in. Spadix 1^4 in. ; male 

 infl. 1 in. intermediate space in. ; male H-l, tip rounded. Anthers stellately 

 crenate. Ovaries globose, stigma a discoid area. 



6. C. gigrantea, Hook. f. petiole pruinose, leaves very large ovate- 

 cordate, spathe 6 in., limb oblong or elliptic-oblong cymbiform cuspidate, 

 appendage very short acute. C. indica, Engler Arac. 494 (not Kunth). 

 Leucocasia gigantea, Schott in (Estr. Bot. Wochenbl. (1857), 84 ; Prodr. 141 

 (excl. syn. pruinipes). 



PERAK, Scortechini. DISTEIB. Cochinchina, Java. 



Leaves 18-20 by 14-18 in., base deeply cordate, margin repand ; nerves 8-10 

 pairs, very stout ; lobes 6-8 in., rounded, sinus open ; petiole 2-3 ft. Peduncle very 

 stout, tall. Spathe 5-6 in., coriaceous; tube 2J in., glaucous, limb erect. Spadix 

 yellow, fern. infl. 1^ in. conic; neuter infl. 1 in. slender; male stout, cylindric, ter- 

 minating in a rudimentary conic appendage. Ovaries very numerous, narrow, 

 stigma very broad, covering the whole ovary j ovules parietal, scattered. The ovaries 

 are quite unlike those of its congeners. 



19. AX.OCASXA, Schott. 



Characters of Colocasia, but ovules few, basilar, erect. Species perhaps 

 20 or 30, tropical Asiatic. 



