Tas. 4465, 
SAUROMATIUM  curratum ‘ 
et 3 7 Spotted Sauromatium. 
Nat, Ord. Arnorpem.—Monacta PoLyanpDrRia. 
Gen. Char. Spatha basi tubulosa, limbo plano patente. Spadix inferne inter- 
rupte androgynus, genitalibus rudimentariis infra stamina sparsis apice sub- 
clavato nudus. Anthere distinct, loculis oppositis, rimula brevi subobliqua 
dehiscentibus. Ovaria plurima, libera, unilocularia. Ovuda 2, basilaria, e funi- 
culis brevibus erecta, orthotropa. Stigma terminale, sessile, depresso-hemi- 
sphericum. Bacce monosperme. Semen . . . .—Herbee Indice ; tubere radi- 
cali globoso, carnoso, maximo, scapo radicali brevissimo, subsolitaria, basi squamoso, 
spatha maculata, folio serotino, pedati-partito, multilobo. Endl. 
Savromatium guttatum ; foliis pedati-multipartitis lobis oblongis acuminatis» 
spatha ad os tubi irregulariter subulato-repanda. 
SAUROMATIUM guttatum. Schott., Meletem. v.1. p.17. Blume, Rumphia, v. 1. 
p. 126. Kth. Enum, Plant. v. 3. p. 28. 
Arum guttatum. Wall, Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 2. pl. 10. p. 115. 
A very remarkable Aroideous plant, native of the East Indies, 
where it is probably not uncommon. Dr. Wallich detected it im 
Nepal, Blume in Java. Roots of our plant were sent to us by our 
friend Mr. Law, Tanna, Bombay, in 1848, and they flowered in 
the stove in the spring of the following year. The flower was 
succeeded by the leaf. The said flower has no very agreeable 
smell, but Dr. Wallich observes it is far less offensive than many 
of the other species. Before expansion, Dr. Wallich found the 
heat at the bottom of the spatha to be very considerable. 
Descr. From the top of a large almost globose ¢wer, and 
surrounded by three or four membranaceous spotted scales or 
bracteas, arises the singularly shaped, and no less singularly 
marked, sessile spatha, from a foot and a half to two feet long, 
almost cylindrical below, but somewhat swollen at the very base ; 
at the height of three or four inches from the base the sheath 
opens, ‘as it were, and is dilated into a large, lanceolato-subulate, 
Beacitied, fleshy spatha, which is reflexed and waved below at 
the margin : the colowr, without livid or purplish-green, 1s within s 
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