Jjriim. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 507 



Roots tuberous. Leaves radical, two or three, pedate ; 

 ser/nients from ten to twelve, lanceolar, entire, smooth, vein- 

 ed ; about six inches long-. Peiio/es very long, the lower 

 four fifths thereof sheathing ; the upper part round, tapering, 

 all are smooth, and of a pale green colour, below the petioles 

 are embraced by a sheath or two, these are clouded with 

 white on the outside. Scape from three to four feet high, 

 which is rather longer than the leaves, round, smooth, and 

 all but a portion of its apex enveloped in the sheaths of the 

 leaves. Spathe half the length of the spadix, its body which 

 embraces the receptacle or flower-bearing part of the spadix, 

 cylindric, above that the remaining part of the spathe pro- 

 jects horizontally over the mouth of the cylindric part, like 

 a large, concave, pointed roof, or lid, striated, otherwise 

 smooth, and of an uniform pale green on both sides. Spadix 

 the receptacle may be about a fourth of the whole, it is erect, 

 above that it bends out downwards, then upwards, ending in 

 a long, erect, naked club, or rather whip. Stamens occupy- 

 ing the upper two thirds of the receptacle. Filaments short, 

 diverging. Anthers large, three-lobed, with two polliniferous 

 pits in each lobe. Germs numerous, &c. as in the genus. 



17. A. sessilijloruin. Roxb» 



Stemless. Leaves pedate ; leaflets about nine, broad-lan- 

 ceolate, entire. Floicers sessile, appearing when the plant 

 is destitute of foliage. Spathe revolute, twice the length of 

 the long, tapering, erect, acute spadix. Nectar ial filaments 

 clavate. Anthers two-lobed. Berries from one to two- 

 seeded. 



A native of the country about Cawnpore, from thence in- 

 troduced by Colonel Hardwicke into the Botanic garden in 

 January 1803, where the plants blossom freely during the 

 dry, hot season. 



Root of the shape and size of a small turnip, with small 

 knobs, or offsets, growing from it, of a light brown. Leaves, 

 which appear many >veeks after the flowers decay, pedate and 



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