Rkaphidophora.] clxvi. aeoide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 547 



broad falcate acuminate, primary nerves 5-8 pairs, spathe 5^7 in. ovate- 

 oblong beaked. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 185 ; Bngler Arac 244. Scindap- 

 sus pertusus, Schott. Melet. i. 21 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 62. S. Peepla, Thw. 

 Enum. 336. Pottos pertusas, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 434, Wight Ic. t. 781. P. 

 officinalis, Wall. Cat. 4436 Qr.—Bheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 20, 21. 



The Deccan Pbninstila j Coromandel, Malabar, and southward to Cetlon. — 

 DiSTRiB. Malay Islands. 



A tall climber. Leaves usually with oblong boles on one side j petiole about as 

 lung as the blade, deeply channelled, young winged, wings not auricled at the top. 

 Spathe shortly peduncled. Spathe yellow. Ovaries 4-angled ; stigma sessile, 

 pulvinate. 



15. R> g'la'Uca, Schott in Sonpland. v. (1857) 46 ; Prodr. 382 ; leaves 

 6-10 in. long and broad glaucous beneath pinnatisect, segments falcate 

 linear or broader caudate-acuminate 2-7-nerved, petiole as long as the 

 blade slender channelled up to the blade, spathe 4-6 in. oblong or lanceo- 

 late cuspidate. JEJngler Arac. 245 ; Ic. ined. 101. Soindapsus gla^ous, 

 Schott Melet. i. 121 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 61. Monstera glauoa, C. Koch ex' 

 Schott. Pothos glaucus, Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 45, t. 156 ; Oat. 4440. 



Tropical and Stibteopical Himalaya ; from Nepal, Wallich, eastwards to 

 the Khasia, Naga, and Munkipobe Hills, ascending to 7000 ft. 



Stem as thick as the thumb, climbing lofty trees. Leates of a fine glaucous blue 

 beneath ; young elliptic-ovate ; segments 2-4 pairs, narrowed towards the base, 

 2-5-nerved j petiole 6-10 in. Fed/vmcle 3-7 in. Spathe very variable in size, 

 longer than the spadix, yellow on both surfaces. SpadAx pale yellow. Stigma 

 of fresh ovary a longitudinal slit, of the dried pulvinate and raised. 



Vaf. ? khasiana ; leaves 12-14 in., segments 3-7, 7-9 in. long. — Khasia Hills at 

 Churra and Pomrang, J.D.S, S; T. T. — Referred by Schott to M. glauca, with which 

 it agrees in form of segments of leaf, and spathe and spadix, but the leaves are longer 

 with more numerous and longer segments. 



16. R. eximia, Schott in Sonpland. v. (1857) 45 ; Prodr. 387 ; leaves 

 1-2 ft. longer than bi-oad oblong pinnatisect with 4-7 pairs of obliquely 

 truncate acute l-coatate and many-nerved segments, petiole very stout, 

 spathe a foot long oblong cuspidate, stigma raised on the conical top of 

 the ovary. E. grandis, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Zeit. 1858, 894; Prodr. 

 386. 



Teopioal Himalaya; Kumaon, alt. 4000ft., Strachey ^ Winterhottom ; Sikkim, 

 alt. 2-5000 ft., and Khasia Hills, alt. 0-4O00 ft., Griffith, &c. 



A lofty climber ; stem as thick as a child's wrist. Leaves bright green on both 

 surfaces. Fedvmcle 6-10 in., as thick as the thumb. Spathe orange-yellow, out- 

 side and in. Spadix shorter than the spathe, white. 



17. XI. decursiva, Schott in Bonpland. v. (1857) 45; Prodr. 385; 

 leaves 1-3 ft. longer than broad oblong pinnatisect base, broadly cordate, 

 segments 8-15 pairs faloately ensiform acuminate costate and with several 

 lateral nerves, petiole very stout, spathe 5-7 in. subcylindrically oymbi- 

 f orm yellow beaked, stigma raised on the conical top of the ovary. Engler 

 Arac. 246 (exel. many syns.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 7282. Scindapsus decursiVus, 

 Schott Meletem. i. 21 ; kvmih Enum. iii. 62 ; Wight Ic. t. 779 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 186 ; Thw. Enum. 336 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7282. Monstera de- 

 cursiva, Schott in Wien. Zeiischr. 1829 {Linncea (1831) Literat. Ber. 52). 

 Pothos decursiva, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 436 ; Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 83, ea-cl. 

 the Attran plant). P. decurrens {error for decursivus), Wall. Gat. 4437 A, 

 in part. 



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