^^rwn. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 503 



1 1. A. d'waricalum. Willd. iv. 482. 



Steniless. Leaves cordate-acuminate. Spathe longer than 

 the subulate spadix, with a slender, drooping, spiral apex. 

 JSTectarial filaments simple, subulate and incurved. 



Nelen Schena major. Rheed. Mai. xi. t. 20. 



From Canton in China Mr. Wiiliam Kerr sent this plant 

 to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms freely 

 during the rains, the leaves are not exactly as in Rheed's Ma- 

 laharicus, yet to me they seem the same, or varieties of one 

 species. 



Root a small, hooked tuber, with many fibres from its 

 union with the rest of the plant. Stem none. Leaves radical, 

 petioled, oblong sagittate, acuminate ; margins waved, smooth 

 on both sides; lohes divaricate, but little, and rather obtuse; 

 from four to six inches long, by two or three broad. Peti- 

 oles nearly as long as the leaves. Scapes solitary, axillary, 

 much shorter than the petioles. Spathe longer than the spa- 

 dix, recurvate, toward the basecampanulate, beyond the mid- 

 dle tapering into a long, slender, drooping, spiral point ; of a 

 deep beautiful crimson on the inside ; on the outside ferrugin- 

 ous, green. Spadix nearly erect. Cluh subulate, acute, the 

 colour of the inside of the spathe. Stamens ; filaments none. 

 Anthers a few near the base of the club, and nearly an inch 

 above, a crowded tuft of simple, subulate, incurved, nectarial 

 filaments, two-lobed ; lobes grooved on the outside, and open 

 on the apex. Germs few and occupying a short space of the 

 base of the spadix, just under the nectarial filaments, one- 

 celled, and containing a single ovulum, attached to the bot- 

 tom of the cell. Styles none. Stigma fiat. 



12. A. orixensis. Roxb. 



Stemless. Leaves three-lobed. Floioers sub-sessile. 

 Spathe ample, erect, longer than (he spadix. Nectarial fila- 

 ments long, and often ramous. 



Beng. Ghekool. 



Arum trilobatum. Lourier, Cochin Ch. 534. 



