CLVIII. AROIDE^. 
Il8 
\Scindapsus. 
the top. Stigma linear. Fruit grey pulpy. Hah. Not rare, climb¬ 
ing on rocks and trees in the low country. Singapore, Serangoon 
Road; Sungei Buloh. Johor, Ulu Batu Paliat. Malacca, Selandor 
(Cantley). Pahang, Pekan. Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Kwala 
Woh (Wray). Penang, Government Hill (Curtis). Kedah, Yan. 
Disirib. Java. Native names: Akar Lubang Alah; Akar Ular 
(snake climber). Use: A decoction of the stem used for rheu¬ 
matism, 
(5) S. perakensis Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 542; Ridl. Mat. iii. 39; 
Engler, Pflanzenreich, he. 75, fig. 32. 
Stem 30 to 40 ft. long, very stout. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 
acuminate, elliptic or nearly ovate, coriaceous, 9 to 10 in. long, 
2-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles 4 to 6 in. long, broadly winged to base! 
Peduncles 4 in. long, rather stout. Spa the creamy white, ovate 
cuspidate, leathery, 3 in. long and as wide; cusp i in. long. Spadix 
4 to 6 in. long, -5 to 1-5 in. through (in fruit); stigmas linear. 
Fruit slaty blue, -3 in. across. Seed lenticular black. Hab. Rocky 
hill woods, Malacca, Batu Tiga. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Sulu 
(Cantley). Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Trong (Wray); Ulu 
Bubong (Kunstler). Native name: Akar Surundang. 
(6) S. rupestris Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 44, p. 184; 
var. siamensis Engler, Pflanzenreich he. 77. S. siamensis Engler, 
Botanisk 2 'idssk. xxiv. 171. 
Stems *25 in. thick. Leaf narrow lanceolate inaequilateral, base 
sub-acute, apex acuminate subfalcate, 8 in. long, i in. wide; nerves 
numerous, close, fine; petioles sheathing to the knee in upper 
leaves, 3-5 in. long, slender. Peduncles 2 in. long. Spathe shell¬ 
shaped, white, I in. long, -5 in. thick. Spadix sessile, cylindric, 
•6 in. long. Pistil small; stigmas elliptic. Hab. On rocks in forests! 
Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Disirib. Tenas- 
serim, Siam, Sumatra, Borneo. 
I have only seen Maingay’s No. 1544, which certainly resembles my 5 . 
rupestris from Borneo in its tall, slender petiole. 
15 . AMYDRIUM, Schott. 
Creeping plant with ovate cordate leaves. Spathe ovate shell¬ 
shaped, brown. Spadix sessile, very short. Stamens 4; filaments 
linear, anthers ovoid. Ovary obpyramidate, 4-angled unilocular; 
ovules 2; style thick; stigma hemispheric. Species i, Malay 
Peninsula and islands. 
Referred by Hooker to Epipremnuni and by myself, in the Materials, 
to Raphidophora. Engler thinks it better to keep it separate; though it hardly 
difiers from the two genera generically, still its habit is so different that it 
may be kept separate temporarily at least. 
(i) A. humile Schott, Ann. Mtis. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 127. Raphi¬ 
dophora humile Ridl. Mat. iii. 41. Epipremnum humile Hook, fll 
E.B.I. vi. 549. 
Stem slender, long creeping, -25 in. through. Leaves ovate 
