Epipremnum.] CLXVI. AKOIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 549 



A lofty climber, over 100 ft. ; stem 2-3 in. diam. Leaves 12-24 by 6-12 in., 

 bright green (drying yellow-brown) very coriaceous, shining above ; costa very 

 stout, nerves trabeculate by the rectangular nervules ; petiole as long as the blade, 

 winged throughout its length. Peduncle solitary. Spathe ending in a curved beak. 

 Spadix as long as the spathe. Stigmas on a style that rises from the hollow crown 

 of the ovary. -^Roxburgh describes the spathe as dirty dull purple, but it is dull 

 green in his drawing. King's Collector says of the Perak spathe, green outside and 

 yellow within, its walls are about in. thick. A closely allied flowerless plant in 

 Herb. Wallich (No. 4442, from Singapore), has leaves 18 in. long by 5 broad. 



2. E. mirabile, Scliott Gen. Aroid. t. 79 ; Prodr. 338 ; leaves entire 

 pinnatifid or pirmatisect, base cordate, segments ensiform falcate truncate 

 acute or acuminate 1-3-costate base rounded or broadly cordate, spathe 

 | in. cymbiform. Engler Arac. 249 ; N-. E. Br. in G-ard. Chron. 1882, i. 

 180, and Journ. Bot. (1882) 332. Ehaphidophora caudata, Schott in Bon- 

 pland. v. (1857) 45. E. Wallichii, Scliott Prodr. 383 ; Engler I. c. 245. R. 

 pinnata and pinnatifida, Scliott in Bonpland. I. c. ; Prodr. 384. E. lacera, 

 Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bogor. 58; PI. Jav. Ear. 155. E. Cunninghamii, Scliott 

 in Bonpland. ix. (1861) 367. Scindapsus caudatus, pinnatifidus and 

 pinnatus, Scliott Meletem. i. 21 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 62-63. S. caudatus, 

 Engl. I. c. 248. Pothos caudatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 436 ; Wall. PI. As. 

 Rar. ii. t. 192. P. decursivus, Wall, in As. Res. ii. 83, t. 192 ; PL As. Rar. 

 ii. 83 (the Attran plant only}. P. pinnatifidus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 437. P. 

 decurrens (error for decursivus), Wall. Cat. 4437 A (in part), B. Monstera 

 pinnatifida, Scliott in Wien. Zeitschr. 1820 ; in Linncea, vi. Litter. Ber. 

 52. Rumpk. Herb. Amb. v. 489, t. 183, f. 2. 



MARTABAN and TENASSEHIM, Wallich, Falconer. PENANG, Roxburgh. Dis- 

 TEIB. Malaya, Australia, Polynesia. 



A lofty climber ; stem stout, 1 in. diam., clothed above with a network of the 

 fibrous remains of the stipular sheaths. Leaves 12-20 by 7-12 in., always with small 

 fenestrations or perforations along the region of the midrib, by which it may be 

 distinguished from all allied plants ; lobes 4-10 pairs, terminal trapezoid ; petiole 

 8-15 in., knee 1-1^ in. Spathe 4-4^ in., green without, yellowish within. Spadix 

 sessile, f in. thick, obtuse, green. Ovaries 1-celled, placentas stretching half-way 

 across the cell ; stigma linear ; ovules 1-3 at the base of the placentas. Schott figures 

 many arrested ovules which I do not find. Roxburgh says of the Penang plant grow- 

 ing in the Bot. Garden, that the extreme leafless shoots are long and pendulous, 

 differing thus from all other species of Pothos known to him. This species (if the 

 identifications are correct with the Pacific plant) is the Tonga drug, much lauded in 

 cases of rheumatism. I am indebted to Mr. Brown for unravelling the intricate 

 synonymy of E. mirabile and Rhaphidophora decursiva. 



3. E. huxnile, Hookf.-, dwarf, leaves entire ovate-cordate acuminate, 

 nerves spreading and arched, spathe 1-1^ in. cymbiform beaked. Ana- 

 dryum humile, Scliott in Mia. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 127 ; Engler Arac. 

 181 ; Ic. ined. No. 152. 



PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1560.) PERAZ, Curtis, Scortechini.VisuRiv. 

 Sumatra. 



Rootstock as thick as the little finger, creeping (climbing?). Leaves 4-7 by 

 in., coriaceous, acuminate, sinus deep narrow rounded at the base; nerves many, 

 spreading, arched, and branching with the secondary; petiole 6-12 in., not sheath- 

 ing. Peduncle solitary, l-2 in. Spathe erect. Spadix shorter. Stamens 4. 

 Ovary obpyramidal, truncate, 1-celled; placenta parietal, stretching nearly across 

 the cell, with one erect anatropous ovule on each side of its base ; stigmas hemi- 

 spheric. The ovary is certainly 1-celled according to both Mr. Brown's and my own 

 analyses, the ovules are detected with great difficulty. The habit is very unlike that 

 of either E. giganteum or mirabile. 



