Steudiiera.l olxvi. AEoiDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 521 



6. S- capltellata, Mooh. f. ; leaves 8-9 by 7-8 in. orbicular-ovate 

 subacute base broadly retuse, spa the 3J-4 in. pendulous from the de- 

 ourved peduncle lanceolate acuminate yellowish-brown without pale 

 purple and striated within, male infl. globose. 



BuBMAj in evergreen forests, Tonkyaghet, Kurz (Ic. in Serb. Oaloutt). 



Caudex as thick as the little finger, densely fibrous ; sheaths 4 in. Leaves pale 

 green above, paler beneath, nerves about 5 pairs, strong, arched; petiole 1 ft.. 

 Blender. Peduncles many (4 in the drawing), 4-5 in., very slender. Spadix i-1 in., 

 fem. infl. very long. 



15. KAFAI.INI!, Schott. 

 Small tuberous herbs. Leaves membranous, cordate or sagittate. 

 Spathe long-ped uncled, tube cylindric, decurrent tightly convolute, limb 

 lanceolate or linear-oblong, flat. Spadix equalling the spathe ; male 

 and fem. infl. remote; male elongate; fem. adnata to the spathe, of 

 few uniseriate ovaries. Male fl. an elongate hexagonal peltate shortly 

 stipitate body, with 4-6 minute globose anther-cells pendulous from its 

 margin. Ovaries ovoid, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; stigma disciform ; ovule erect, 

 anatropous. 



1. H. Benthamiana, Schott in (Estr. Bot. Wbchenbl. (1857), 85 ; 

 JProdr. 162 ; leaves oblong-sagittate basal lobes narrow obtuse more than 

 half as long as the anticous, spathe acuminate ; Bngler Arac. 489 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. (1873), 109, t. 9. Hapale, Schott Oen. Aroid. 

 t. U.— Aroid. Wall. Oat. 8953 A. 



Burma ; banks of the Attrau river, WalUe'h. PKexr and Maetaban, in dry 

 forests, KuTz. 



Tuber small. Leaves few, 3-1 in. long ; sinus deep, narrow ; petiole and peduncle 

 slender. Spathe 2-3 in. long, membranous, white. 



2. K. Brownii; Sook. f. ; leaves ovate acuminate deeply cordate, 

 basal lobes rounded ird the length of the anticous, spathe oblong apiculate. 



Malay Peninsula ; Quedah, alt. 100-500 ft. King's Collector. 



Habit of S. Benthamiana, differing in the basal lobes of the leaf and 

 form of the spathe. — Named after Mr. N. E. Brown, assistant in the Kew Herbarium. 

 (See p. 490). 



16. BEDXVSiLTXA, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs, flowering and leafing in alternate years ? bearing 

 long radical bulbilLiferous shoots. Leaf solitary, entire, peltate. Spathe 

 coriaceous ; tube convolute, ovoid, accrescent over the fruit ; limb broad 

 or narrow, erect or spreading and reflexed," deciduous. Spadix very 

 short, sessile, male and fem. infl. separated by neuters ; appendage ; male 

 infl. clavate, of densely packed angular table-topped male fl. and neuters ; 

 fem. short, cylindric. Stamens with a fleshy connective bearing 2-3 small 

 anther-cells opening by terminal slits. Ovaries ovoid, 1-celled ; stigma 

 sessile, disciform ; placentas parietal ; ovules many, orthotropous. 

 Berries small. Seeds albuminous, embryo axile. 



1. XI. vivlpara, Schott Melet. i. 18 ; Syn. 43 ; Qen. Aroid. t. 36 ; 

 Prodr. t. 137 ; in Ann. Gand. (1846), t. 66 ; bulbilliferous shoots very stout 

 subereot or ascending simple or very shortly branched, limb of spathe 



