Homalomena.'] CLXVI. AROIDE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 535 



ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate base obliquely acute rounded subtrun- 

 cate or subcordate, nerves 6-10 pairs, petiole slender sheathing - way up, 

 peduncles very short, spathe -j-f in. oblong cuspidately beaked, spadix 

 sessile, fern. inn. half as long or nearly as long as the male. Chameecladon. 

 obliquatum, Schott in Bonpland. (1858), 369 ; Prodr. 315 ; Engler Arac. 

 347 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8963. 



PENANG, Phillips, Wallich ; MALACCA, Maingay. 



Rootstock as thick as the thumb. Leaves very variable, usually broadest at the 

 base with unequal rounded sides ; nerves slender, nearly straight, except the basal 

 where the base of the leaf is broad, tip with a thick long macro. Peduncles -2 ia. 

 Stigma disciform. Seeds many, faintly sulcate, red brown. Closely resembles H. 

 Grijfithii, but the spadix of that plant is stipitate. 



15. H. King-ii, Hook, f.- leaves 4-5 by 2-2i in. oblong or ovate- 

 oblong acute and mucronate, base rounded or subcuneate, nerves 4-5 pairs, 

 petiole stout sheathing from J- way up, peduncles short, spathes f-1 in. 

 oblong cuspidately beaked, fern. infl. nearly as long as the male. 



SINGAPORE ; in swamps, King. 



Rootstock as thick as the little finger. Leaves thinly coriaceous, slightly unequal- 

 sided ; nerves erecto-patent, slightly arched, tip with a thick mucro ; petiole 

 rather stout. Peduncle 1^-1^. Berries about 15-seeded. Seeds red-brown. 



16. H. truncata, Hook. /. ; leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in. oblong or 

 triangular- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate from a broad truncate or snb- 

 hastate base, nerves very slender, petioles slender sheathing from | i their 

 length, peduncles half as long as the petioles or shorter, spathes 1-1 in. 

 oblong cuspidately beaked, fern. infl. half as long as the male or more, with 

 many stamiuodes intermixed and below the infl. Ohamaecladon truncaturn, 

 Schott in Bonpland. (1858), 369; Prodr. 314 ; Engler Arac. 347. 



MERGUI, Griffith. DISTRIB. Borneo ? 



Rootstock as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves very membranous ; nerves many, 

 nearly straight, except the basal, base usually uneqaal-sided, tip mucronulate. 

 Spathes slightly curved, narrowly oblong in flower, broader in fruit. Spadiv 

 narrowed and few-fld. at the base but hardly stipitate. Stigma capitate. Seeds 

 very many, striate. The Bornean specimen included by Schott has identical leaves, 

 but a larger narrower falcate finely acuminate spathe, a distinctly stipitate spadix, 

 no (or obscure) staminodes, and furrowed seeds. 



17. H. pumila. Hook. f. leaves 1^-2 in. elliptic-ovate obovate or 

 oblong subacute apiculate membranous nerves very faint, petiole very 

 slender sheathing at the base, peduncles short slender, spathe ^-f iu. 

 linear oblong cuspidately beaked, spadix sessile, fern. infl. the length of 

 the acute male, staminodes few. 



SINGAPORE, Maingay. 



Rootstock creeping and copiously rooting, rather slender. Leaves green ; nerves 

 3-5 pairs, arching. Peduncles 5- in. Seeds few in the berries, pale spotted with 

 black. Very near the Javan and Bornean H. purpurescens (Chamcecladon, Schott) 

 but the leaves are green, of a very much more delicate texture, the petiole much 

 more slender, and the fern. infl. shorter. 



18. XX. nutans, Hook.f. ; leaves 4^-5 by 2-2 in. elliptic acuminate 

 at both ends tip mucronate, nerves very faint, petiole sheathing for 

 half its length, peduncles short decurved above, spathe cernuous broadly 

 ovate with a recurved cusp, spadix stout sessile much shorter than, the 

 spathe, fern. infl. half as long as the broadly ovoid obtuse male. 



