of Arum trilobatum; the leaves of which species, as 

 M. Lamarck has observed vary exceedingly in form. 



The Arum trilobatum is a native of Ceylon, and Herman 

 observes that the inhabitants eat the roots, when deprived 

 of their acrimony by boiling or drying them in the sun. 



Philip Miller received the roots from Ceylon in 1752, 

 which flowered at Chelsea the two following years; but 

 we are told in the Hortus Kewensis from the authority of 

 the philosophical transactions, that this plant was cultivated 

 by Mr. Thomas Fairchild before the year 1714. 



It requires to be kept in the stove. 



