504 _ MONOECIA MONANDRIA., Arum. 
Teling. Surei Kunda. ° 
A native of the shady mango groves, near Samulkota, 
where the soil is pretty dry, and fertile. Flowering time the 
beginning of the rains. 
Root perennial, tuberous, nearly round, the size ofa pullet’s 
egg, white, with small inequalities, many fibres issue from the 
the apex, round the insertion of the leaves, and flower ; stem- 
less. Leaves radical, petioled, deeply three-lobed; lobes 
ovate, pointed, a little scolloped, smooth, round the under 
side, parallel with the margins and near it runs a double 
nerve about eight or ten inches broad, and the same length. 
Petioles erect, round, tapering, striated, about twelve inches 
long at the base, vaginated, and embracing one another. 
Scape axillary, very short, just sufficiently long to elevate the 
spathe above the ground. Spathe shorter than the petioles, 
striated, erect ; the inside red ; the outside herbaceous green. 
Spadix, the base surrounded with the germs, crowned with 
many, yellow, ramous filaments; the middle swelled with 
the anthers, above them there is no second order of filaments. 
Club scarlet coloured, as long as all the rest of the spadix, 
erect, tapering, subulate, from a’ concave broad base, to a 
point which is neither obtuse nor sharp, 
Note. This seems to me to differ from divaricatum and tri- 
lobatum. From the former in having deeply three-lobed, 
pointed leaves, and excessively acrid roots ; and from the lat- 
ter not only on account of the different form of the leaves, but 
_ because here the spathe is erect, with a straight point; there 
drooping, with the long point twisted like a screw ; here are 
also ramous fibres growing on the germs. 
The roots (when fresh) are exceedingly acrid, more so than 
those of A. Dracunculus, or maculatum: The natives ap- 
ply them in cataplasams, to discuss or bring forward scir- 
rhous tumours, They also.apply them externally to the bite 
of venomous snakes, at the same time giving —— — | 
the size of a field bean, 
It is certainly a most sidereok stimulant in bet tas si and . | 
