Stylochiton, | AROIDEZ (Brown). 35 
on the vaginate part; blade 3-6 in. long, 21-61 in. broad, va 
from sagittate to hastate, obtuse or acute, with a subulate apieulus 
13-3 lin, long; basal lobes oblong, very obtusely rounded at the 
at the base, green outside, whitish-green within ; limb erect, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2-3 in. long i 
coloured within, green on the back ; . spadix sessile, 11-1} in. long ; 
base of the male part more or less interrupted but scarcely separated 
from the female flowers by a distinct naked space; female part 
4-5 lin. long, of 4-5 crowded spirals of flowers, angular from mutual 
pressure ; perianth {—1 line deep, cup-shaped, contracted at the 
mouth, truncate and thickened at the margin, cream-coloured ; 
ovary oblong-ovoid, 2- rarely 3-—4-celled with axile placentation, 
green ; style 3 & line long, whitish-green; male perianth about + line 
deep, laterally compressed, cream-coloured ; stamens with filiform 
Fier and elliptic-oblong age creamy-yellow. Schott, Gen. 
; Prod. Aroid. 345; Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. 523. 
Gicinite natalensis, Sond, ex Schott, Arotd. i. 10. 
Eas ee Reaion: Natal; Attercliffe, 800 ft., Sanderson, 309! Inanda, 
Wood, 271! and without precise ocak, Gerrard, 750! Gueinzius! Delagoa 
Bay, Ata te specimen, Mrs. Montes 
2. §. maximus (Engl. Jahrb. xv. 466); leaves about 6, quite 
glabrous; petiole 6-12 in. or more (?) long, vaginate for 3—; its 
length ; blade 4-12 in. long, 5103 in. broad, deeply cordate or 
cordate-sagittate, aeute or obtuse, apiculate ; ; basal lobes elliptic, 
elliptic-ovate, or elliptic-oblong, about half as long as the front lobe, 
pia? e apex, with an obtuse sinus 2-3 in. dee °P 
me them ; peduncle 2-3 in. long ; oe with a tube 2-3 i 
the female part by a distinct naked space ; female pa 
of 4—5 crowded spirals of flowers, angular from mutual pressure 
perianth 1 line deep, cup-shaped, contracted at the mouth, trunc e 
and thickened at the margin ; ovary subglobose, 2-celled with axile 
seeticteeos At 3; style 1 lin e long ; ; male perianth 3 line deep, laterally 
compressed ; filaments of stamens 1 line long, filiform, exserted. 
Pere ne : Delagoa Bay, under the shade of trees, Forbes ! Monteiro, 
Mr. Monteiro on his label states that the flowers ‘ powerful 
odour,” whilst Mrs. Monteiro informed me that they are iembictesy wad strongly 
scented _ violets.” 9 
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