Arum. MONOEKCIA MONANDRIA, 509 
19, A. campanulatum, Roxb. 
Stemless. Leaves decompound. Flowers sessile, with res- 
pect to the surface of the ground, and appearing when the - 
plant is destitute of leaves, Spathe the length of the spadix, 
campanulate, with curled margins, no nectary ; club broad- 
ovate, lobate. Anthers two-celled. 
Sans, Kunda or Kulla. 
Teling. Manchi kunda. 
Beng. Ol. 
Tacca sativa, Rumph, Amb, v. p. 324, t. 112, the root and 
leaf, and Tacca phallifera, ¢. 113. f. 2. the flower, at which 
period not a leaf is to be found. Schena and Mulen-Schena. 
Rheed. Mal. p. 11. t. 18, and 19, 
Found wild in damp places in the woods near Calcutta; 
flowering time the beginning of the rains. 
Root perennial, tuberous, roundish, covered with a dark. 
brown skin, frequently, when in a good soil, as large asa 
child’s head ; from various parts of the chief root, there issue 
small tuberosities, which are employed as offsets, to cultivate 
the plant by. Leaves radical, for the most part only one or 
two, thrice-bifid; divisions outwardly pinnatifid ; segments 
obliquely oblong, pointed, smooth ; size very unequal; the 
exterior one being always longer than the inferior one, the 
wholé leaf is from one to three feet each way. Petioles 
round, tapering, with darker coloured green, pretty smooth, 
clouded as long as the leaves. Spathe very large, leathery, 
campanulate ; the border curled ; smooth on both sides ; the 
outside near the base pale green; the middle part deeper 
green, and towards the margin greenish purple; the bottom 
deep dotted purple ; the spadix about as long as the spathe, 
the lower third or pistiliferous part cylindric; the middle 
third or staminiferous portion somewhat turbinated, the club 
or upper third part very broad, short, ‘conical, or sub-globu- 
lar, of a dark purple colour, variously lobate, and wrinkled 
like a dried truffle, in large plants this part is six inches in 
diameter, and four in perpendicular height. Fi/aments none. 
