1114 BENGAL PLANTS. [Aglaonema. 
*Nerves unequal, primary much — than the intermediate or 
secondary ; stock elongate, nodose [p. 1113] ...............44 Hookerianum. 
2316. AGLAONEMA CLARKE! Hook. f.; F. B. I. vi. 529. 
A scandent herb. 
2317. AcLaoneMA Hooxerranum Schott; F. B. I. vi. 529. 
Chittagong. 
A stout herb. 
1009. Scindapsus Schott. 
Robust, climbing shrubs; tissues with acicular needles; stems 
rooti t the nodes; leaves aya oblong, or oblong-lanceolate ; 
petiole sheathing, geniculate, ath often apereeeene Flowers 
hermaphrodite, all fertile; snaihe sl Falla ick, ciduous ; 
spadix shorter than the spathe, sessile, cylindric, Fiabe ths 
Perianth 0. Stamens 4; filaments widish, flattened, thickened at 
the tips; anthers terminal; cells oblong, parallel or divaricate, 
dehiscing by lateral slits. Ovary prismatic or obpyramidal, 1-locu- 
lar, top flattened; ovule solitary, anatropous, basilar; stigma 
sessile, linear-oblong, depressed. Fruit of clustered, Riel 
yramidal berries, but with apex coriaceous an timately 
separating. Seed more or less reniform, with an arillate ee ; 
testa hard; albumen 0; — ie het 
2318. Se OFFICINALIS Schott; F. B. L vi. 541; E. D. 
8.970. Pothos eficnai F, I. i. 431 
In all the provin 
A large epee sinc Hind. and Beng. Gajpipal ; 
Santal. Daré jhapak. 
1010. Rhaphidophora Schott. 
Robust, — shrubs; tissues with acicular needles ; stems 
sending down long aerial roots; leaves large, distichous, often 
oblique, eknts or pinnately lobed, rarely entire ; petiole sheath- 
ing, geniculate. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous by abor- 
, thi 
deciduous; spadix included, thick, cylindric, dense-flowered. 
Perianth 0. Stamens 4 or 5; Slangentb linear, flattened, narrow' 
at_the tips; anthers small; cells oblong, divergent, dehiscing by 
extrorse slits. « Ovary obpyramidal or prismatic, 1- or im 
