Arum. MONOECiA monandria. 4,07 



the surfiice of the earth, and there strike root, after whicli they 

 rise from six to twelve inches nearly erect, and bear ninner- 

 oiis, approximate fascicles of small, sessile, scaly, proliferous 

 bulbs. Bulbs oblonof, green, the size of a small berberry, 

 vegetating- readily when committed to the earth; when they 

 chance to remain any length of time on the spike, other 

 bulbs are formed intheaxills of the scales, the whole forming" 

 a little round head of these bulbs. Scales (of the bulbs) im- 

 bricated, ovate, each ending* in a pretty long, hooked bristle, 

 by which they readily adhere to whatever touches them, and 

 thereby arc widely spread. 



4. A. rapiforme. R. 



Herbaceous, stemless. Roots tuberous, turnip-shaped. 

 Leaves cordate, sub-repand. Spadix nearly as long as the 

 concave spathe. Anthers many-celled. 



A native of Pegu, introduced by the Rev. Mr. F. Carey, 

 into the Botanic garden, where it blossoms during the rains. 

 It differs from A. montanum, the only species known to me, 

 for which it can be mistaken, most conspicuously in the shape 

 and nature of the root ; in other respects their size and habit 

 are tnuch alike. 



6. A. montanum. R. 



Stemless. Root a sub-cylindric tuber. Leaves cordate, 

 repand, polished. Spadix nearly as long as the cucullate, 

 coloured spathe. Anthers many-celled. 



A native of the mountainous forests of the Northern Circars, 

 where its root is said to be employed to poison tigers. 



1 long considered this to be A. macrorhizon, but changed 

 ray opinion on observing* that Forster, who must have seen 

 and examained that species in its recent state, says, the flo- 

 rets are hermaphrodite; there being* six sessile, twin anthers 

 surrounding each germ, and that the stigma is orbicular. 

 There are no traces of stamina, anthers or glands round the 

 germs of my plant; and the stigma is regularly three or four- 

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