Pidia.'] CLxvi. AROiDisiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 497 



P. Stratlotes, Linn. 8p. PI. 963 ; Boxh. Cor. PI. iii. 63, t. 269; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 131 ; ariff. Notul. 12, 211 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 260, 261 ; Dah. & 

 Oibs. Bomb. M.Wl ; Bot. Mag. t. 4564.— BAeeie Sort. Mai. t. 32. 



Throughout India, and Cbilon; in still sweet water.— Disteib. tropica 

 generally. 



Soots of tufted simple white fibres clothed with fibrillse. Leaves lJ-4 in. long 

 in Indian formSj apex rounded or retuse, undulate, pubescent above and beneath ; 

 nerves raised beneath, flabelliform, converging within the margin. Spathe white, 

 obliquely campauulate, i in. long, tomentose externally, gibbous and closed below, 

 contracted about the middle, dilated and nearly circular above. 



4. AB,Isa:nXA, Mart. 



Taberons herbs. Leaves B-seot, pedatiseot, or leaflets whorled. Spathe 

 deciduous, tube convolute, limb often, acuminate or tailed, usually in- 

 curved. Bpadix included or exserted, appendage various of ten excessively 

 long and filiform. Male fl. many, stipitate (sessile and connate in a 

 continuous stratum in A. flavym), anthers 2-5 oblong or subgloboae. Fern. 

 fl. densely crowded j ovary 1-celled ; style short or 0, stigma disciform ; 

 ovules 2 or more, basilar, orthotropoua. Neuters 0, or a few above the 

 males or females, or on the appendage, subulate. Berries 1-few-aeeded. 

 Seeds albuminous ; embryo axile. — Species about 50, temp, and trop. Asia, 

 and N. America. 



The characters taken from the plants being mono- or dioecious are not absolute 

 but very constant, as are those of leaves one or two. 



A. Teisecta. Leaves trifoliolate (Sp. 1-17). 



* Appendage much shorter than the limb of the spathe. — ^Usually all 

 dioecious. 



1. A. Roxburgrbll, Kunth Enum. iii. 18 ; leaves 2, leaflets ovate- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate lateral subsessile median petiolulate, limb of 

 spathe ovate-lanceolate acuminate incurved or involute, appendage very 

 slender acute naked or with a few basal neuters. 8chott Syn. Aroid. 27 ; 

 Prodr. 33. A. cuspidatum, Engler Arac. 536. Arum cuspidatum, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 506 ; Wight Ic. t. 784. 



Penanq-, Soxlm-^h ; on Govt. Hill, alt. 2000 ft., OurUs. Pebak, ScorteoUni, 

 Kimstler. — Distbib. Java (Ic. Sorsfield.) 



Mootstock horizontal, rooting all over. Fetiole elongate sheathing the scape, 

 14-18 in., and peduncle mottled-green and pink j leaflets 4-10 by 1-5 in, Spathe 

 pale yellow-green, tube 4 in.', .longer than the limb, margins not recurved around 

 the mouth of the tube in Roxburgh's drawing, but distinctly in one of Scortechini's, 

 which represents a much broader strongly incurved limb of the spathe with a caudate 

 tip. Male spadix very slender, tapering into the short filiform appendage which 

 bears a few subulate neuters. 



2. A. Kunstleri, Hook.f. ; leaf solitary, leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late suboandately acuminate all or the median only petiolulate, limb of the 

 green spathe subereot ovate-lanceolate acuminate about as long as the 

 tube but broader, base dilated round the tube hardly recurved, male 

 spadix very slender ending in a very slender naked finely acuminate 

 appendage. 



Peeak, Eunstler (Ic. vnSerh. Calcutf.). Penano, King's Collector (1653), on 



Govt. Hill, alt. aOOO ft., Curtis. ? Khasia Hilis ; Nja Bungalow, alt. 2000 ft. 



Clarke. ' . 



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