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soon after the decay of the flowers, the leaves make their ap- 
pearance, and continue during the rainy season. 
Root perennial, turnip-shaped, and about the same size. 
with fleshy fibres from every part, particularly the crown. 
Stem none. Leaves radical, generally single, long-petioled, 
commonly divided into three, petioled, once or twice dichoto- 
mous, pinnatifid, though in stunted plants they are frequently 
trigeminate, Leaflets broad-lanceolar, acute, entire, smooth, - 
the breadth of the whole leaf is often four feet ; small, com- 
pressed, round bulbs are almost always present on the upper 
side of the divisions of the leaves. Petioles from one to four 
feet long, round, smooth, clouded, tapering a little towards 
the top. Scape erect, from the crown of the root, round, 
smooth, about six inches long, beautifully clouded with olive, 
and pale orange tinged with pink. Spathe cauled, ovate 
when taken off and spread, smooth on both sides ; at the base 
on the outside clouded like the scape; above and on the in- 
side pink, Spathe cylindric, nearly the length of the spadix, 
club obtuse, and about one third of the whole, buff-colour- 
ed. Filament none. Anthers two-celled. Nectaries none, 
nor any intermediate space between the stamens and pistils, 
Germs roundish, two-celled, one of which even in the germ 
is for the most part abortive, the other contains one curved 
ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style scarcely 
any. Stigma four-lobed. Berries one-seeded. 
21. A. sylvaticum. Roxb. 
Leaves super-decompound ; leafiets lanceolate. Spadix 
straight, two or three times longer than the short, gibbous 
campanulate spathe. Anthers two-celled. 
Teling. Udavee chaina, 
A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars, Flower- 
ing time the wet season. 
‘Root perennial, tuberous, nearly smooth like a potato. 
Stem none. Leaves radical, one or two, petioled, thrice two 
or more lobed ; /obes pinnatifid ; segments lanceolate, smooth, 
