508 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Aruni. 



about two feet high. Leaflets generally nine, broad-lanceo- 

 late, entire, smooth, from three to nine inches long. Petioles 

 round, smooth, tapering, clouded with pale dull purple; from 

 six to eighteen inches long. Scape very short, and entirely 

 hid under the surface of the earth. Spathe sessile, indeed 

 its oibbous base is rather immersed in the earth, for four or 

 five inches above the swelling, erect, cylindric and entire ; 

 then reclinate, and open, the edges variously dentate, some- 

 what curled, more deeply coloured, and soon becoming invo- 

 lute. Spadix scarcely half the length of the spathe, deeply 

 coloured at the base, conical, and there covered with germs. 

 Mectarial filaments clavate, crowning the germs ; from thence 

 two-lobed, two-celled, sessile. Anthers naked, cylindric, oc- 

 cupying about two inches. Cluh straight, from six to eight 

 inches long, highly coloured, slender and acute. Germs obo- 

 vatp, one-celled, containing two ovula, attached to the bottom 

 of the cell. Berries turbinate, smooth, polished, crimson, one 

 or two-seeded. 



18. A. lyratum. Roxh. 



Root turnip-shaped, stemless. Leaves compound ; first 

 divisions sub ternate ; leaflets lyrate, smooth. 



Telitig. f/davee-Kundee. 



Grows in moist places amongst the Circar mountains. 



Root tuberous, pretty smooth, and something like a large 

 potato. Leaves radical, one, two, or three, petioled, tripin- 

 natifid ; divisions very unequal ; the exterior ones compound, 

 larger than the others, pointed, and obliquely oblong, some- 

 times scolloped, smooth ; the inferior ones small, and obtuse. 

 Petioles one or two feet long, striated, clouded, swelled at the 

 base ; and there sheathing. Berries the size of a small cher- 

 ry, red, smooth, one-seeded. 



The roots are eaten by the natives of the mountains, but 

 require two or three boilings and some particular care in the 

 dressing to render them inoffensive, and nourishing. 



