496 MONOECiA MONANDRiA. Arum. 



Weli-ila. Rheed. Mai. xi. t. 22. 



I doubt if this can be reckoned any thing more than a 

 large aquatic variety of Colocasia. In Bengal it is rarely cul- 

 tivated, but found wild in abundance on the borders of lakes, 

 and pools of fresh water. Every part of this plant is eaten 

 by the Hindoos. The root or rather subterraneous stem, often 

 grows to the length and thickness of a man's arm. The peti- 

 oles, scape and leaves, are of a reddish colour, and the plants 

 considerably larger than any of the varieties of Colocasia 

 just mentioned ; yet the leaves are narrow in proportion to 

 their breadth. The only good specific mark to know it from 

 Colocasia by, is the shortness of the club of the spadix. 



3. A. viviparum. Roxh. 



Stemless. Leaves peltate, cordate, acuminate. Root fla- 

 gelliferous and these runners bearing scaly, viviparous bulbs 

 in clusters. 



Maravara Tsjembo. Rheed. Mai. xii. t. 9. 



A native of Nepal as well as Malabar. From the former 

 place Dr. Buchanan sent the minute bulbs to this garden, 

 where they produced complete plants in a short time and 

 thouoh now eight years old, have never blossomed ; never- 

 theless, in Nepal, Dr. Buchanan observed they bore the com- 

 mon flower of the Arums; hence there can be no doubt of 

 the o-enus. Here they produce annually in the rainy season 

 abundance of the bulbiferous radical spikes,and by these the 

 plant is readily propagated. 



Root biennial, or more, consisting of a small, roundish 

 tuber, which is abundantly furnished with the usual fibres, 

 while from its apex the foliage rises ; and round its sides the 

 flagelliform, bulbiferous spikes issue. Stem none. Leaves 

 petioled, peltate, cordate, entire, acute, smooth on both sides ; 

 posterior lobes obtuse ; from four to twelve inches long, and 

 from three to eight broad. Spikes or runners from the body 

 of the tuberous root, some simple, leafless shoots issue, they 

 are about as thick as a quill, run for a few inches, just under 



