518 CLXVi. AROiBE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_SynantheriaB, 



Ehaphiophailus, ScTiott Gen. Aroid. t. 27 ; 8yn. 125 j Engler Arac. 321, 

 would appear from the characters given not to be separable from Syna/ntherias. 

 It was founded on a Canara plant collected by Hohenacker, of which I have 

 seen no specimen ; and is described and figured as having a few gibbous neuters, 

 and a slender subulate appendage shorter than the spathe. In other respects it 

 agrees with S. sylvaiica. 



S. sylvatica, Schott Gen. Aroid. t. 28; Prodr. 176; Angler Arac. 

 320 ; Ic. ined. No. 155 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7190. Amorphophallus sylvaticus, 

 Kunth Enum. iii. 34 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 259. A. zeylanicus, Blume 

 Emmiph. i. 148 ; Thw. Enwm. 336 ; Engler Arac. 314. Bractyspatha sylvatioa, 

 Schott Syn. 35. B. zeylanica, Schott Syn. 35 ; Prodr. 127. Arum sylva- 

 tioum, Soxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 511 ; Wight Ic. t. 802. 



The Deccan PE^fINSUIA, from the northern Circars to the Concan, and south- 

 wards to Ceylon. 



Tuber subglobose, bulbilliferous. Leaves 1 or 2, li-2^ ft. diam. ; divisions 

 1-2-pinnatifid ; leaflets 2-6 in., lanceolate, long-acuminate ; petiole and peduncle 

 1-2 ft., and spathe clouded barred and streaked with green and pale pink. Spathe 

 2-4 in., tube broad convolute, base truncate ; limb very short, ovate, acute. iSpadix 

 stipitate ; infl. as long as the spathe, terminating in a brown flexuous appendage 5-6 

 times as long ; infl. cylindric, male narrowed ; neuters sub 2-seriate, quite flat, pel- 

 tately adnate, yellow-brown. Malefl. of scattered or fascicled minute sessile obcuneate 

 anthers. Ovaries globose, style very short j stigma capitate j ovules subbasilar. 



11. TKOnXSOIfXA, Wall. 



Charaoters of Amorphophallus, but appendage clotlied below with 

 depressed neuters and all over above with tubercles. 



T. nepalensis, Wall. PI. As. Bar. 83, t. 99 ; Blume Bumph. i. 160 ; 

 Bngler Arac. 306. T. Hookeri, Fngler I. c. 307. Pythonium Wallicida- 

 num, Schott Melet. i. 17 ; Syn. 36 ; Gen. t. 25 ; Prodr. 123 ; Kunth Enum. 

 iii. 30. Aram grandiflorum, Serb. Bam. — Aroid. Wall. Cat. n. 8949. 



Teopioal Himalaya; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft., J. D. S. 

 Assam, Hamilton. Khasia Hills, alt. 1-5000 ft. 



Tuber i-5 in. diam., not bulbilliferous. Leaf 12-18 in. diam. or more ; leaflets 

 3-5 in., ovate or obloug-lanccolate, caudate-acuminate; petiole 18 in. and very 

 stout. Peduncle light green blotched with much darker, sheaths pink. Spathe 

 12-18 by 3-6 in. diam., oblong-cymbiform, shortly narrowly convolute at the base 

 erect, green. Spadix 5-10 in., exserted, very stout ; male infl. 2-5 in., fern, i-2 in. '• 

 appendage 3-4 in. and as long or shorter than the male infl., cylindric, green 

 changing to yellow, top rounded. Anthers 3-5, substipitate, compressed, 2-celled, 

 pollen vermiform. Ovaries globose, 2-celled; style stout j larger than the cells, up- 

 curved, stigma discoid ; obscurely lobed ; ovule 1, basilar, erect, anatropouB. M-uit ? 

 T. Hookeri, Mngler Arac. 307 (AUopythion, Hookeri Schott Gen. 24, t. 24; 

 Prodr. 122 ; founded on a very bad specimen of a Khasian plant (the leaf of which 

 Mr. Brown thinks may be that of an AriscBtna) is altogether doubtful. There is n 

 drawing in Herb. Kew of a curious state of T. nepalensis, with a fan-shaped green 

 f oliaceous spathe, cut irregularly and deeply into lanceolate acuminate costate lobes. 



12. FXiESraONXUnX, SchoU. 



Characters of Amorphophallus, but male and fern. infl. distant, with 

 large obovoid pearl-like or turbinate neuters interposed, and no append- 

 age. 



P. marg-aritlferum, Schott Syn. 34 ; Gen. t. 26 ; Prodr. 124 ; Fngler 



