Anadendrum.1 cLxvi. aroidbje. (J. D. Hooker.) 541 



needles in the pericarp, and apparently macropodal embryo, all point to Anadendrum. 

 Tliere are needles in the tissue of the petioles, which I do not find in any other 

 Anadandrum. 



24 SCXNDAPSVS, Sehott. 



Climbing shrubs with the characters of Anadendrum, but the spadix 

 is sessile, there is no cupular perianth, and the pericarp of the berries 

 abounds in intercellular needles. — Species about 10, tropical Asiatic, 

 Australian and Polynesian. 



See note under genus ShapMdophora. 



* Leaves obliquely ovate elliptic or lanceolate. 



1. S. officinalis, SchoU Meletem. i. 21 ; Ge,n. t. 81 ; Prodr. 395 ; 

 branches wrinkled when dry, leaves 5-10 by 2^6 in. ovate elliptic-ovate 

 or nearly orbicular caudate-acuminate base rounded or slightly cordate, 

 primary nerves distinct, petiole 3-6 in. broadly winged up to the knee, 

 spathe 4-6 in. oblong subcylindrioal beaked. Kunth Enum. iii. 63 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. 452 ; Engler Arac. 254. Pothos officinalis, Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 431 ; WigU Ic. t. 778 ; Wall. Oat. 4486. Calla ovata, Herb. Ham. 



' Tbopicae Himalaya; from Sikkim eastwards. Benoae, CHiTiABONa, Buema, 

 and the Andaman Islds. 



Stem as thick as the little finger. Leaves dark green. Peduncle solitary, 

 terminal, much shorter than the petiole. Spathe about 4-6 in. long, green without, 

 yellow within, beak slender. Spadix equalling the spathe, elongating in fruit, 

 greenish-yellow. Stigma elongate j fruiting hemispheric. Berries, few only 

 ripening, fleshy. Seed ovate-cordate. — Fruiting spadiz sometimes a span long. 



2. S. pictus, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Boqor. {1844), 68 ; PI. Jav. Bar. 159 ; 

 branches angled and muriculate when dry, leaves 6-7 by l-s-5 in. faloately 

 ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate acute or acuminate, petiole 1-li in. 

 winged to the knee, spathe li-2i in. cymbiform beaked. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 183 ; Sehott Prodr. 393 ; Bngler Arac. 252. S. pothoides, Sahott 

 I.e. 394 (not of Miq.). S. argyrsea, Engler I. c. 255. 



Peeak ; King's Collector. — Distbib. Java, Borneo. 



Stem 6-8 ft., as thick as a goose-quill or more, 4-6-angled when dry through 

 contraction of the tissues, and pale red-brown. Leaves thickly coriaceous, dull 

 green ; nerves very close and slender, primary and secondary hardly distinct. 

 Peduncles equalling the petiole, very stout. Spathe white. Spadix green. — The 

 leaves of yonng plants are orbicular-cordate, green blotched with white. 



3. S. Scortechinii, Hook. f. ; branches deeply wrinkled when dry not 

 muriculate, leaves 3-6 by 14-24 in. ovate orbicular or falcately lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, primary nerves very 

 obscure, petiole 2-54 in. broadly winged, spathe 1^-24 in. ovate acute or 

 acuminate. 



Peeak ; ScorteeUni, alt. 3-1000 ft.. King's Collector ; on Maxwell's Hill, 

 Wray. 



Sltm scaudent, as thick as a swan's quill or less, pale, wrinkled, other- 

 wise quite smooth. Leaves thickly coriaceous; nerves very many, primary hardly 

 distinguishable from the secondary ; petiole winged to the knee or | way up. Peduncle 

 much shorter than the petiole. Spathe yellowish on both surfaces. Spadix much 

 shorter. Berries about i in. diam. across the crown. 



