Schismatoglottis.~\ CLXVI. AROIDE.-K. (J. D. Hooker.) 539 



leaves cordately ovate or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous 

 many-nerved, petiole sheathing for ^ or 5 its length, peduncles many, 

 spat he 2-3 in. constricted about the middle, spadix with fern. inn. for half 

 its length followed by a constriction with neuters, male infl. clavate, 

 the upper half broadlv conic sterile. Schott Gen. Aroid. t. 55 ; Prodr. 

 321. 



PERAR, Scortecfiini. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Rootstock elongate, as thick as a swan's quill, rooting. Leaves 5-7 by 2-3^ in., 

 pale beneath, tip with a deciduous long mucro, costa stout; nerves 12-18 pairs, 

 spreading and arching ; petiole equalling or exceeding the limb. Peduncles 4-8 in. 

 Spathe with an inflated acuminate limb, tube f-1 in. Ovaries oblong; stigma 

 pulvinate, obscurely lobed. Reduced to 8. ealyptrata, Zoll. and Morr. (Syn. Vei z. 

 #oll. 83), by Eogler, which is founded on Calla ealyptrata, Roxb. (Wight Ic. t. 799), 

 au Amboyna plant with oblong leaves, short stout petioles and a capitate summit 

 of the male infl. 



8. S. XLurzii, Hook. f. ; leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in. ovate deeply cordato 

 many-nerved membranous, basal sinus very acute, petiole 12-14 in. broadly 

 sheathed to the middle. 



PEGU YOMAH, Kurz. 



Resembles 8. mutata, but a much larger leaved plant, with a very stout petiole. 

 I have seen no spathe. It is interesting as the most northern species of the genus 

 known in India. 



* Tube of spathe after flowering broadly funnel-shaped. (RHYNCOPYLE, 

 Engler.} 



9. S. elongrata, Engler in Bull. Soc. Ort. Tosc. iv. (1879) 298; leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acute at both ends. Rhyncopyle elon- 

 gata, Engler in Beccan Males, i. 289, t. 23, f. 3-15; Ic. ined. n. 199. 



PERAK ; sandy creeks, alt. 3000 ft., Scortechini. DISTEIB. Borneo (or Su- 

 matra). 



Rootstock short. Leaves 4-8 by 1-2^ in., coriaceous, pale beneath, tip with a 

 tubular mucro ; nerves 7-8 pairs, nearly straight and costa beneath strong ; petiole 

 sheathing at the base. Peduncles equalling the petioles or shorter. Spathe 1^-2 in., 

 erect or inclined, green, oblong, acute or acuminate. Spadix sessile, much shorter 

 than the spathe, stout ; fern. infl. shorter than the male, narrowed below, with tabular 

 neuters below it ; male rounded at the top ; connective broad, pubescent. Uerries 

 very small, turbinute ; stigma a small sessile disc. Seeds fusiform, with a trans- 

 parent fleshy coat which is produced into a long tail at top and base. Engler 

 figures the spathe exactly as in Homalomena nutans, namely, broadly ovate and 

 cernuous on a decurved peduncle. 



23. ANADENBRUIM, Schott. 



Scandent shrubs rooting on trees. Leaves distichous, entire or pinnatifid, 

 petiole geniculate at the tip ; primary nerves many, se jondary branch- 

 ing. Spathe ovate acuminate, deciduous. Spadix stipitate, elongate, 

 cylindric ; flowers crowded, bisexual ; perianth 0, annular, or cupular. 

 Stamens 4-6, filaments very short, flattened ; anthers terminal, cells 

 erect subreniform. Ovary ob^onic, truncate, 1-celled, crown flat ; stigma 

 small, sessile, linear; ovule solitary (or 2 in A. medium), basilar. 

 Berries small, scattered ; pericarp without intercellular needles. Seed 

 exalbuminous, testa thick ; embryo macropodal. Species 4 or 5, 

 Malayan. 



