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CLVIII. AROIDE^. 
[Epipremnopsis. 
17 . EPIPREMNOPSIS, Engl. 
Climbing plants. Leaves distant when adult, young leaves 
distichous close set, entire, sessile; adult broad oblong, lobed and 
perforated; petioles long, sheathing at the base. Peduncles long. 
Spathe persistent thick, beaked, spreading. Spadix stipitate. 
Perianth none. Stamens 6; filaments short, triangular; anthers 
2-celled. Ovary flat-topped, 2-celled, each cell i-seeded. One 
species from Tenasserim, throughout the Peninsula and Malay 
Archipelago. 
(i) E. media Engler, Pflanzenreich, iv. 236, p. i, fig. iga. Ana- 
dendron medium Scholl, Bonplandia, v. 1857, p. 45 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
vi. 540. Raphidophora Huegeliana Scholl, Bonplandia, l.c. Ridl. 
Mai. iii. 45. Pothos celatocaulis Horl (young state). Pothos 
pinnatus Wall. Cal. 4438. 
Stem 20 to 30 ft. tall, -5 to 75 in. through. Leaves when young 
lanceolate falcate, sub-sessile, light green, often overlapping, 2 to 7 in. 
long, 75 to 3 in. wide {Pothos celatocaulis). Adult leaves with 5 
to 14 lobes, oblong truncate, acute or cuspidate at upper angle, 
8 to 15 in. long, 7 to 12 in. wide; petioles 10 to 13 in. long. Peduncle 
3 in. long, slender. Spathe i to 3 in. long, -5 to 1*5 in. across. 
Spadix I to 1-5 in. long, stipes -5 in. long. Fruit white, -25 in. 
across. Hah. Very widely distributed through the lowland woods 
on the trunks of trees, Singapore (Wallich); Bukit Timah; Reser¬ 
voir Woods; Garden Jungle. Johor, Gunong Pantai. Negri Sem- 
bilan (Cantley). Selangor, Bukit Kudah; Ginting Bidai. Perak 
(Scortechini) ; Goping (Kunstler). Penang, Batu Feringhi (Curtis). 
Distrib. Java, Philippines, Borneo. Native name : Sakat Gajah. 
This plant is really intermediate between Anadendmm and Raphidophora. 
It has much of the habit of the former, but the fruit of the latter. Young 
plants develop a series of very remarkable leaves as they ascend a tree trunk, 
commencing with the curved distichous lanceolate overlapping leaves 
appressed to the tree trunk forming the Pothos bi/arius and P. flextiostts 
and P. celatocaulis of Gardens. Higher up they become oblong acute, 6 to 
8 in. long, 4 in. wide; with petioles i to 1-5 in. long still appressed to the 
trunk. Then they became ovate-cordate as large, but the petiole is 5 in. 
long and they stand erect, finally taking on the adult form (Ridley, Card. 
Chron. 1864, p. 526). 
18 , RAPHIDOPHORA, Schott. 
Big or moderate climbers. Leaves entire perforate or lobed; 
petiolate. Spathe boat-shaped, deciduous. Spadix cylindric ses¬ 
sile, usually floriferous to base. Perianth none. Stamens 3 to 6; 
filaments flat linear. Ovaries more or less hexagonal at the tip; 
stigmas pulvinate or linear. Berries many-seeded, confluent. Seeds 
oblong. Species 60, Indo-Malaya, China. 
Leaves entire. 
Leaves oblong-ovate, base round; petioles long, 
slender, 7 to 9 in. long; spadix 3 in. long (i) R, gracilipes 
