522 OLxvi. AROiDB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Remusatia. 



reflexed broadly orbicular-obovate cuspidate. Kunth Enum. iii. 36 ; Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 205 ; Dalz. & Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 259 ; Chrah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 

 228 ; Wall. Gat. 8939 ; Fngler Arac. 496. Caladium viviparum, Lodd. 

 Bot. Gab. t. 281. Oolooasia vivipara, Thw. Fnv/m. 336. Arum viviparum, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 496 ; Wight Ic. t. 798.— Bheede Sort Mai. xii. t. 9. 



SUBTBOPIOAL Himalaya ; alt. 2-3000 ft. from Kumaon to Sikkim. The Khasia 

 Hills and Bdema. Behae, on Parasnath, alt. 4500 ft., Clarice. The Westeen 

 Ghats, and Cetlon. — Distbib. Java. 



Tuber size of a hazel or walnut, viviparous shoots 6-11 in., bnlbils squamosely 

 crinite. Leafh by 3^ to 18 by 12 in. membranous, orbicular ovate or cordate, acute 

 or acuminate ; petiole 1 ft. or less. Spathe 4-5 in. long, tube green^ limb 2-3 in. 

 broad, golden yellow. iSpadix 1—1^ in. 



2. Xt. Kookerlana, Schott in (Estr. Bot. WochenU. (1858), 133; 

 Prodr. 187 ; bulbilliferous shoots slender prostrate or pendulous much 

 branched, limb of spathe erect ovate-oblong acuminate. Engler Arac. 497. 



TsMPEEATE Himalaya ; Simla to Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Tuher as in S. vivipara. Leaves ovate-oblong, cordate, caudate-acuminate 

 beneath between the nerves ; petiole 2-9 in. Spathe li-2J in., limb J-f in. broad, 

 sometimes coppery, more or less convolute. 



17. GONATANTKUS, Klotzsch. 



Tuberous herbs, with the habit foliage and bulbilliterous shoots of 

 Biemusatia, but the shoots are branched and the spathe has a slender 

 elongate convolute limb, there are no neuters between the male and fem. 

 infl., and the ovules are numerous and basilar. 



G. sarmentosus; Klotzsch in Link & El. Ic. PI. i. 33, ii. 14 ; leaves 

 ovate-cordate. Eunth Enum. iii. 36 ; Schott Syn. 44 ; Gen. t. 39 ; Prodr. 

 142; Bot. Mag. t. 5275; Gartenfl. (1868), 227, t. 588; Engler Arac. 571. 

 Caladium pumilum, Don Prodr. 21. Colocasia ? pumila, Kunth Enum. 

 iii. 40.— Aroid. Wall. Cat. 8952. 



Tempbeate Himalaya j from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 4-6500 ft. Khasia Hills, 

 alt. 4-5O0O ft. 



Tuber small and slender branched shoots with the small crinite bulbils of 

 Semusatia Hookeriana. Leaves peltate, acuminate, dark green above ; petiole 

 4-8 in. Peduncle 2-3 in. Spathe 6-10 in. long, tube ^-f in., ovoid, green ; base 

 of limb as long or longer than the tube, inflated, reclined, the rest suberect, 

 with a long recurved tip, golden yellow, contracted at the base, margins completely 

 convolute. Spathe with the fem. infl. in the tube, the stipitate clavate red-brown 

 male in the swollen base of the limb. Spadim 1-1^ in. long; stipes of male infl. 

 angular and crown of anthers chocolate-brown ; fem. infl. short, ovaries few closely 

 packed, globose, stigma a disciform area. Berries yellow. Seeds on long f unicles, 

 ovoid ; testa rough, with a fleshy yellow coat. 



2. G.? ornatuSj Scliott in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1858), 121 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate base cordate. 



Sikkim Himalaya, Thomson. Khasia Hills, alt. 5000 ft., J. S. E. Sf T. T. 



In the absence of inflorescence this is an altogether doubtful plant. It differs 

 from G. sarmentosus in the much narrower leaves, 5-10 by l^-^i in., which in the 

 origiaally described Khasia specimens were of a fine coppery-purple between the 

 green nerves and the broad green margin. In specimens apparently of the same 

 plant from both Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, the leaves are green and concolorous, 

 No bulbillifeious shoots have been seen. 



