Qyrtosperma."] CLXVI. AROIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 551 



obovoidly globose, smooth, 1-7-seeded, scarcely longer than the accrescent 

 sepals. Seeds compressed, crested; albumen scanty; embryo hooked. 

 Species about 10^ tropical. 



C. lasioides, Griff. Itin. Notes iii. 149 ; Nolul. iii. 150; Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t, 169 ; leaves sagittate, lobes caudate-acuminate, petiole and peduncle 

 prickly, flowers 6-merous, ovules 2. Schott Gen. t. 84 ; Prodr. 403 ; Engler 

 Arac. 270 ; Ic. Ined. No. 89. Wall. Cat. 4447. 



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

 PORE, Gaudichaud, &c. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Rootstock stout. Leaves like those of Lasia, 2-3 ft., basal lobes as long as the 

 median, costa and nerves prickly beneath ; petiole 2-8 ft., sometimes as thick as 

 the middle finger. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 1-5 in.., lengthening 

 to 8 in fruit, open to the base, flat, ovate or lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, many- 

 nerved, white or yellow within, reddish-brown without striped with green. Spadix 

 pink ; stipes stout, dorsally adnate to the spathe. Fruiting spadix 4-6 by 1 in. 

 diam. Berries closely packed. Young plants are smaller in foliage and spathe. 



30. ANAPHirXiXiUXK, Schott. 



A tall herb, with creeping rootstock. Leaves broad, membranous, 

 pinnate or pedatipartite. Spathe large, broadlylanceolate, caudate, twisted, 

 membranous, deciduous, base very shortly convolute. Spadix short, cylin- 

 dric, stipitate, flowering downwards, base adnate to the spathe. Sepals 4, 

 large, obovate, truncate, incurved. Stamens 4, filaments flat; anther- 

 cells saccate, pores terminal. Ovary ovoid or oblong, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; 

 stigma sessile, disciforui ; ovule sernianatropous, parietal. Berries obo- 

 void. 



A. Wigrhtii, Schott Gen. Aroid. t. 83 ; Prodr. 404; Engler Arac. 275. 

 Wall. Gat. 8968. 



TRAVANCOBE ; Courtallam. Wight. 



Leaves 1-2 ft. long or more; leaflets 2-6 pairs, sessile or petiolulate, 8-18 by 

 2-4 in., acuminate, 1-costate, base cuneate rounded or acuminate, terminal lobe 

 simple or divided ; petiole 3-4 ft., quite smooth. Peduncle longer than the leaf. 

 Spathe 6-12 by 2-4 in. Spadix 1 in. 



31. POTHOS, Linn. 



Climbing branched shrubs, branches rooting. Leaves distichous. Pe- 

 duncles terminal or axillary or from lateral shoots. Spathe small, reflexed, 

 cvmbiform, or elongate, persistent. Spadix sessile or stipitate, flower- 

 ing upwards, stipes often decurved or flexuous. Sepals 6, tips incurved. 

 Stamens 6, filaments flat; anther-cells ellipsoid, slits extrorse. Ovary 

 3-celled ; stigma small ; ovules 1 in the inner angle of each cell, anatro- 

 pous. Berries 1-3-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo macropodal. 

 Species about 20, tropical Asiatic, Australia and Pacific, with one 

 Madagascar. 



A. Leaves with a broad flat truncate petiole, and short entire sheath. 

 Spadix (in the Indian species) very short, globose oblong or pyriform, stipes 

 long. 



1. P. scandens. Linn. Sp. PI. 968; leaves 2-4 in. obovate or lanceo- 

 late, peduncles -5 in., bracts very small, spathe cymbiform cuspidate, 

 spadix globose ovoid or shortly oblong. Bot. Reg. t. 133 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 



