Arum. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 503 
Hl. A. divarigatum. Willd. iv. 482. 
Stemless, Leaves cordate-acuminate. Spathe longer than 
the subulate spadix, with a slender, drooping, spiral apex, | 
Nectarial filaments simple, subulate and incurved. 
Nelen Schena major. Rheed. Mal. xi. t, 20. 
From Canton in China Mr, William Kerr sent this plant 
to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms freely 
during the rains, the leaves are not exactly as in Rheed’s Ma- 
labaricus, yet to me they seem the same, or varieties of one 
species, 
Root a small, hooked tuber, with many fibres from its 
anion with the rest of the plant. Stem none. Leaves radical, 
petioled, oblong sagittate,acuminate ; margins waved,smooth 
on both sides; /obes divaricate, but little, and rather obtuse ; 
from four to six inches long, by two or three broad. Peti- 
oles nearly as long as the leaves. Seapes solitary, axillary, 
much shorter than the petioles, Spathe longer than the spa- 
dix, recurvate, toward the base campanulate, beyond the mid- 
dle tapering into a long, slender, drooping, spiral point ; of a 
deep beautiful crimson on the inside ; on the outside ferrugin- 
ous, green, Spadix nearly erect. Club subulate, acute, the 
colour of the inside of the spathe. Stamens ; filaments none. 
Anthers a few near the base of the club, and nearly an inch 
above, a crowded tuft of simple, subulate, incurved, nectarial 
filaments, two-lobed ; Jobes grooved on the outside, and open 
on the apex. Germs few and occupying a short space of the 
base of the spadix, just under the nectarial filaments, one- 
celled, and containing a single ovulum, attached to the bot- 
tom of the cell. Styles none, Stigma flat. 
12, A, orixensis. Roxb. ve 
Stemless, Leaves three-lobed. Flowers sub-sessile, 
Spathe ample, erect, longer than the spadix. everint eon 
ments long, and often ramous, 
Beng. Ghekool. 
Arum trilobatum, Lourier. Cochin Ch. 534. 
