544 CLXVI. AROIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rhaphidopliora. 



very obscure. Spathe remarkably thick-walled (at least in. tbick). Ovaries 

 narrow, -J^ in. across the crown. 



3. R. Wrayi, Hook.f.\ leaves 7-12 by H-2 in. narrowly lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate submembranous, base narrowed acute or rounded, 

 nerves capillary on both surfaces, petiole 2-3 in. slender channelled up 

 to the blade, spathe H-2i in. peduncled cylindric or ovoid beaked spadix 

 as long as the spathe, stigma raised pulvinate. 



PEEAK; Wray (with No. 662), Scortechini, King's Collector. , 

 Stem 30-40 ft., woody, as thick as a goose-quill or less, internodes \-\ in., sur- 

 face striate. Leaves drying greenish-brown and quite opaque ; nerves erecto-patent, 

 T V-& in. apart with anastomosing nervules; petiole slender, stift'. Peduncle %-] $ in. 

 Spathe terete, walls very thick, green, cream-colrd. within. Fruiting spadix oblong, 

 2i in. long by 1 in. diam. Stamens 2. Berries % in. across the crown. 



4. R. Xiobbii, Schott in Bonpland. v. (1857), 45 ; Prodr. 379 ; leaves 

 3-8 by l|-3 in. ovate oblong linear-oblong or lanceolate acuminate or cau- 

 date thinly coriaceous, base acute or rounded, primary nerves distant and 

 usually well marked beneath all spreading and arched, petiole 1-2^ in. 

 channelled up to the knee or limb, spathe small (1-H) peduncled oblong 

 beaked, stigma raised. Engler Arac. 241. 



PEEAK ; Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA ; Griffith, Maingay. SINGA- 

 PORE ; Lobb. DISTEIB. Borneo, Java. 



Stem 20-30 ft. much branched, as thick as a goose-quill or less. Leaves greenish 

 brown and opaque when dry; 8-10 primary nerves very indistinct above, undersur- 

 face very smooth. Peduncle 1 in. Spathe turgid. Spadix oblong. Ovaries^- in. 

 diam. across the crown. Stamens 68 and ovary 2 3-celled. Maingay, mss. 



5. It. minor, Hook. f. ; leaves 3-5 by li-li in. elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate base acute or cuneate, primary nerves many slender 

 erecto-patent raised on both surfaces, petiole 1-2 in. broadly channelled up 

 to the blade, spathe peduncled 2-3 in. beak long slender, stigma raised 

 pulvinate. 



PERAK; Scortechini. MALACCA; Griffith (Keio Distrib. 5988), Maingay. 



Branches as thick as a goose-quill or less, soft, striate, and foliage pale yellowish 

 brown, not shining when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; nerves slightly arching. 

 Peduncle 1-1^ in., yellowish. Spathe coriaceous, apparently red, beak ending in a 

 very slender point. Spadix cylindric. Ovaries ^ in. diam. across the crown. 

 Berries 1 in. diam. 



6. R. Schottii, Hook.f.; leaves 8-14 by 2-4^ in. falcately lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate coriaceous, base 

 acute, nerves very many and slender uniform erecto-patent raised on both 

 surfaces, petiole l|-3 'in. stout channelled to the middle of the knee, 

 spathe 3 in. ovoid ncuminate, spadix peduncled very stout, stigma 

 raised pulvinate. R. Peepla (in part), Schott in Bonpland. v. (1857), -45. 

 Engler Arac. 242. 



ASSAM ; Masters. KHASIA HILLS; alt. 0-4000 ft., J. D. -H. $ T. T. 



Stein as thick as the little fiuger, smooth, terete, purple except the young 

 branches. Leaves thinly coriaceous, in young plants distichous 3-4 in. ovate acute, 

 base very oblique. Peduncle 14 in. Spathe yellow inside and out. Spadix reddish, 

 when advancing to fruit, 3 in. by 1 in. diam. Ovaries transversely elongate, in diam. 



In the dried spadix (Assam) advancing to fruit, the pulvinate stigmas are raised on a 



very short conical style; but in my drawing of the ovary, made in the Khasia Hills, 

 it is a depressed areole in the centre of the flat crown of the ovary. The petioles 



