69 ARUM CAMPANULATUM. 
inside towards the margin yellowish purple, middle pale 
yellow, bottom deep dotted purple; diameter of the mouth 
of the bell in large plants about a foot ; perpendicular height 
nearly the same. 
Spadix about as long as the spathe, the lower third, or pistilliferous 
part cylindrical, the middle part, or staminiferous portion, 
somewhat turbinated ; the club (here a very improper name) 
or upper third part is of a very broad short-conical, or sub- 
globular shape, and of a dark purple colour, variously lobate 
and wrinkled, like a dried truffle: in large plants this part 
is six inches in diameter and four in perpendicular height. 
Filaments none. Anthers numerous, closely impacted round the 
turbinate or middle portion of the spadix, linear, two-celled, 
with two corresponding openings at the apex, where they 
discharge the dust or pollen; the immense quantity of which 
that is poured out from these openings and drops down on 
the pistils is really inconceivable. 
Nectarial filaments none. 
Germs numerous, roundish. Styles subulate, thick, coloured. Stigmas 
large, yellow, downy, 2-lobed. 
Berries numerous, long, obovate, red, and covered with a consi- 
derable portion of pulp. 
Seeds one or two in each berry. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This species is much cultivated over the northern Circars, and 
highly esteemed for the wholesomeness and nourishing quality of 
the roots. It deserves to be called the Telinga potatoe. The usual 
time of cultivation is immediately after the first rains in June. A 
very rich loose soil suits it best, where the swelling of the roots 
meets with little obstruction, and where they draw the greatest 
nourishment, for which reason it requires to be very well and 
repeatedly ploughed. The small tuberosities that are found on the 
larger roots are what they employ for sets, and are planted in the 
manner potatoes are in England, and about the same distance from 
one another. In twelve months they are reckoned fit to be taken 
up for use. The larger roots will then weigh, if the soil has been 
good and the season favourable, from four to eight or more pounds 
each: they keep well if kept dry, and are by the natives em- 
ployed in food, in the same manner as the common yam. 
273. PHOENIX ACAULIS. 
Stemless. Fronds radical, pinnate ; leaflets folded, ensiform, in 
sub-opposite fascicles, pointing many ways, the lower spinous. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Bahar. Flowering time in the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta the cold season. Seed ripe in April and May. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem none in plants ten years old: at this age, when in flower, 
the whole body of the plant, including the inflorescence, but 
exclusive of the foliage, is of an ovate form, and not exceed- 
ing six or eight inches in height, from the surface of the 
ground, and is sketched in the annexed figure, at fig. 1, and 
only about one-fourth part of the natural size. 
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Leaves ( fronds) pinnate, from two to six feet long. Leaflets in 
nearly opposite, rather remote fascicles ; the superior folded, 
slender, ensiform, and about eighteen inches long; the lower 
small, straight, rigid, and end in very sharp spinous points. 
Petioles (stipes,) near the base flat; toward the apex triangular, 
smooth, 
MALE. 
Spathes and spadix as in the female, hereafter described. 
Flowers alternate, solitary, sessile, small, pale yellow. 
Calyx one-leaved, triangular; angles or lobes acute, and unequal. 
Corol 3-petalled ; petals obliquely-lanceolate, acute, slightly united 
at the base. 
Filaments six, very short, inserted into the base of the corol. 
Anthers linear, nearly as long as the petals. 
Pistil none. 
FEMALE. 
Spathes universal axillary, solitary, one-valved, about six inches 
long, with their base rather below the surface of the earth, 
generally splitting into two portions, down the middle on 
each side. 
Spadix ramous, composed of many, simple, short, erect, flexuose 
branches; all are smooth, and pale yellow. 
Flowers alternate, solitary, sessile, in bractiform notches on the 
sides of the branches of the spadix. 
Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, with three obscure points at equal 
distances on the margin. 
Petals three, subrotund, thick and fleshy, concave, smooth. 
Nectary a small 6-toothed cup, in which the germs sit. 
Germs three, each one-celled, and contains a single ovule attached 
to the inside of the cell. Styles three, recurved, small, and 
short. St¢gmas small. 
Drupe oval, fleshy, smooth, bright red, size of a very small olive, 
one-celled. 
Seed solitary, oblong, with a deep longitudinal groove on one side. 
Embryo in the middle of the back, or convex side of the seed. 
274. MYRISTICA AROMATICA. 
Leaves oblong. Male flowers, several on simple and compound 
axillary racemes. Female flowers solitary. Calyx pitcher-shaped. 
M. officinalis. Zinn. syst. 493. Suppl. 265. Gert. sem. 1.p.194,. 
t. 41. 
M. moschata. Willd. sp. pl. 4. p. 869. Woodville’s Medical Botany, 
363. ¢. 134. 
Nux myristica. Rumph. amb. 2. p.14.t. 4. 
Ja-i-phul, or Jaephal, the Hindostanee and Bengalese name of 
the nutmeg, and Jawatri of the mace. 
Jouz-bew-a, of the Persians and Arabians. 
Jali-phalo, the Sanscrit name of the nutmeg, and Jali-patri the 
mace. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the Molucca Islands; (bearing male and female 
flowers on different trees, and by late information in some in- 
stances monoecious ;) and there blossom and bear their fruit the 
whole year. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight. Bark smooth, and of a greenish ash, or dirty olive 
