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CXXXVIII. ORONTIACE^. 



1. POTHOS, Linn. 



1. P ScANDENS, Linn. sp. 1374 .^Climbing and rooting on 

 trees ; stems long, very tough ; leaves entire, articulated with the 

 petiole ; petioles winged, slightly stem-clasping at the base ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, obtuse and rounded at 

 the base ; spadices axillary solitary, peduncled, recurved, subglobose. 

 The leaves are coriaceous, smooth, 2 to 4 inches long ; berries 

 oblong, red, pulpy, 1 to 2-seeded. In the Ghaut jungles, pretty 

 common. Rheed. Mai. vii, t. 40; Bot. Reg. t. 1337; Syn. 

 Flagellaria repens, Lour. Coch. 263. 



2. SCINDAPSUS, Schott. 



1. S Peetusus, Schott. Meletem. i, 2L — Stem climbing and 

 rooting on trees, smooth, about an inch in diameter ; leaves large, 

 long-petioled, cordate, pinnatifid on one side, and pierced on the 

 other ; spadices shorlly-peduncled ; spathe gibbous, acute, a little 

 longer than the spadix ; spadix cylindric-obtuse. Jungles in the 

 Southern Concan. Syn. Pothos pertusus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ; Rheed. 

 MaLxii, t. 20,21. 



CXXXIX. AROIDEiE. 



1. CRYPTOCORYNE, Fisch. 



1. C RoxBUEGHii, Dalz. — Root fibrous, stoloniferous ; leaves 

 radical, erect, ensiform, smooth, a little curled on the margin ; 8 to 1 2 

 inches long ; scape about an inch long, compressed, smooth ; spathe 

 as long as the leaves, erect, twisted like a screw to a very fine point, 

 beautifully spotted inside, with very dark-purple ; capsule coriaceous, 

 conical, 6-celled ; seeds very numerous. Banks of streams and other 

 wet places, common ; flowering in October. This is the Ambrosinia 

 nnilocularis of Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 493 ; but as the fruit is not 

 unilocular, we are obliged to alter the specific name. No. 1618 of 

 Graham's Catalogue. 



2. LAGENANDRA, Dalz. 



1. L ToxicARiA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 289. — A 

 marsh plant, 3 feet high, with a thick creeping root or rhizome ; 

 leaves on long petioles, oblong, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, large ; 

 sheaths stipulary, opposite the leaf;^ scapes axillary, solitary, 

 compressed; spathe longer than the scape, tubular at the base, 

 attenuated into a long, slender apex; fruit compound, about 1 inch 

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