508 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Arum. 
about two feet high. Leaflets generally nine, broad-lanceo- 
late, entire, smooth, from three to nine inches long. Petioles 
round, smooth, tapering, clouded with pale dull purple; from 
six to eighteen inches long. Scape very short, and entirely 
hid under the surface of the earth. Spathe sessile, indeed 
its gibbous base is rather immersed in the earth, for four or 
five inches above the swelling, erect, cylindric and entire ; 
then reclinate, and open, the edges variously dentate, some- 
what curled, more deeply coloured, and soon becoming invo- 
lute. Spadiax scarcely half the length of the spathe, deeply 
coloured at the base, conical, and there covered with germs. 
Nectarial filaments clavate, crowning the germs ; from thence 
two-lobed, two-celled, sessile. Anthers naked, cylindric, oc- 
cupying about two inches. Club straight, from six to eight 
inches long, highly coloured, slender and acute. Germs obo- 
vate, one-celled, containing two ovula, attached to the bottom 
of the cell. Berries turbinate, smooth, polished, crimson, one 
or two-seeded. 
18, A. lyratum. Roxb. 
Root turnip-shaped, stemless, Leaves compound ; first 
divisions sub-ternate ; leaflets lyrate, smooth. 
Teling. Udavee-Kundee. 
Grows in moist places amongst the Circar mountains. 
Root tuberous, pretty smooth, and something like a large 
potato. Leaves radical, one, two, or three, petioled, tripin- 
natifid ; divisions very unequal ; the exterior ones compound, 
larger than the others, pointed, and obliquely oblong, some- 
times scolloped, smooth ; the inferior ones small, and obtuse. 
Petioles one or two feet Rosle striated, clouded, swelled at the 
base ; and there sheathing. Berries the size of a meals cher- 
ry, red, smooth, one-seeded, 
The roots are eaten by the natives enaengeinigill 
require two or three boilings and some ——— 
dressing to render them Koes and pe 
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