Gyrtosperma.] clxvi. AHoiDEai. (J. D. Hooker.) 551 



obovoidly globose, smooth, l-7-3eeded, scarcely longer than the accrescent 

 sepals. Seeds compressed, crested; albumen scanty; embryo hooked. — 

 Species about 10, tropical. 



C. lasloides, Griff. Bin. Notes iii. 149 ; Nolul. iii. 150; Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 169 ; leaves sagittate, lobes caudate-acuminate, petiole and peduncle 

 prickly, flowers 6-merous, ovules 2. Schott Gen.t. 84; Prodr. 403; Engler 

 Arac. 270; Ic. Ined. No. 89.— PTaZZ. Cat. 444.7. 



Pbeak ; in marshes, Scortechini, King's Collector. Malacca, Q-nffith. Singa- 

 POBE, &audichavd, &c. — Distbib. Borneo. 



Sootsiock stout. Leaves like those ol Lasia, 2^-3 ft., basal lobes as long as the 

 median, costa and nerves prickly beneath ; petiole 2-8 ft., sometimes as thick as 

 the middle finger. Feduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 1-5 in., lengthening 

 to 8 in fruit, open to the base, flat, ovate or lanceolate, caudate-acuininate, many- 

 nerved, white or yellow within, reddish-hrown without striped with green. Spadix 

 pink ; stipes stout, dorsally adnate to the spathe. Fruiting spadix 4^6 by I in. 

 diam. Berries closely packed. — Young plants are smaller in foliage and spathe. 



30. ANAPXYXiXiUIlI, Schott. 



A tall herb, with creeping rootstock. Leaves bi-oad, membranous, 

 pinnate or pedatipartite. Spathe large, broadlylanceolate, caudate, tyvisted, 

 membranous, deciduous, base very shortly convolute. Spadix short, cylin- 

 dric, stipitate, flowering downwards, base adnate to the spathe. Sepals 4, 

 large, obovate, truncate, incurved. Stamens 4, filaments flat ; anther- 

 cells saccate, pores terminal. Ovary ovoid or oblong, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; 

 stigma sessile, disciform ; ovule semianatropous, parietal. Perries obo- 

 void. 



A. Wiffhtii, Schott Gen. Aroid. t. 83 ; Prodr. 404 ; Engler Arac. 2751 

 —Wall. Cat. 8968. 



Tkavancoee ; Courtallam, Wight. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft. long or more; leaflets 2-6 pairs, sessile or petiolnlate, 8-18 by 

 2-4 in., acuminate, 1-costate, base cnneate rounded or acumiaate, terminal lobe 

 simple or divided ; petiole 3-4 ft., quite smooth. Peduncle longer than the leaf. 

 Spathe 6-12 by 2^ in. Spadix 1 in. 



"31. POTKOS, Linn. 



Climbing branched shrubs, branches rooting. Leaves distichous. Pe- 

 dwncles terminal or axillary or from lateral shoots. Spathe small, reflexed, 

 cjmbiform, or elongate, persistent. Spadix sessile or stipitate, flower- 

 ing upwards, stipes often decurved or flexuous. Sepals 6, tips incurved. 

 Stamens 6, filaments flat; anther-cells ellipsoid, slits extrorse. Ova/ry 

 3-celled ; stigma small ; ovules 1 in the inner angle of each cell, anatro- 

 pous. Perries 1-3-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo macropodal. — 

 Species about 20, tropical Asiatic, Australia and Pacific, with one 

 Madagascar. 



A. Leaves with a broad flat truncate petiole, and short entire sheath. 

 Spadix (in the Indian species) very short, globose oblong or pyriform, stipes 

 long. 



1. P. scandens, Linn. Sp. PI. 968 ; leaves 2-4 in. obovate or lanceo- 

 late, peduncles ^j in., bracts very small, spathe cymbiform cuspidate, 

 spadix globose ovoid or shortly oblong. Bot. Beg. t. 133 ; SooJc. Ic. PI. t. 



