Arum, MONOECJA MONANDRIA. 507 
Roots tuberous. Leaves radical, two or three, pedate ; 
segments from ten to twelve, lanceolar, entire, smooth, vein- 
ed; about six inches long. Petioles very long, the lower 
four fifths thereof sheathing ; the upper part round, tapering 
all are smooth, and of a als green colour, below the peal 
are embraced by a sheath or two, these are clouded with 
white on the outside. Scape from three to four feet high, 
which is rather longer than the leaves, round, smooth, and 
all’but a portion of its apex enveloped in the sheaths of the 
leaves, Spathe half the length of the spadix, its body which 
embraces the receptacle or flower-bearing part of the spadix, 
cylindric, above that the remaining part of the spathe pro- 
jects horizontally over the mouth of the cylindric part, like 
a large, concave, pointed roof, or lid, striated, otherwise 
smooth, and of an uniform pale green on both sides. Spadix 
the receptacle may be about a fourth of the whole, it is erect, 
above that it bends out downwards, then upwards, ending in 
a long, erect, naked club, or rather whip. Stamens occupy- 
ing the upper two thirds of the receptacle. Filaments short, 
_ diverging. Anthers large, three-lobed, with two polliniferous 
pits in each lobe, Germs numerous, &c. as in the genus. 
17. A. sessiliflorum. Roxb. 
Stemless. Leaves pedate ; leaflets about nine, broad-lan- 
ceolate, entire. Flowers sessile, appearing when the plant 
is destitute of foliage. Spathe revolute, twice the length of 
the long, tapering, erect, acute spadix. Nectarial filaments 
clavate. _Anthers two-lobed. Berries from one to two- 
seeded, 
‘A native of the country about Cawnpore, from thence in- 
troduced by Colonel Hardwicke into the Botanic garden in 
January 1803, where the plants blossom freely during the 
dry, hot season. 
Root of the shape and size of a jan turnip, with small 
knobs, or offsets, growing from it, of a light brown. | Leaves, 
which appear many weeks after the flowers decay, ed: te and 
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