Arum. MONOECiA monandrfa. 509 



19. A. campanulatum. Roxb. 



Stemless. Leaves decompound. Flotcen sessile, with res- 

 pect to the surface of the ground, and appearino- when the 

 plant is destitute of leaves. Spathe the length of the spadix, 

 campanulate, with curled margins, no nectary ; club broad- 

 ovate, lobatc. Anthers two-celled. 



Sans, Kunda or Kulla. 



Teling. Manchi k?mda. 



Beng. 01. 



Tacca sativa, Rnmph. Amb. v. p. 324. /. 112, the root and 

 leaf, and Tacca phallifera, t. 113. f. 2. the flower, at which 

 period not a leaf is to be found. Schena and Mulen-Schena. 

 Rheed. Mai. p. U.t. 18, and 19. 



Found wild in damp places in the woods near Calcutta; 

 flowering time the beoinnino- of the rains. 



Root perennial, tuberous, roundish, covered with a dark 

 brown skin, frequently, when in a good soil, as large as a 

 child's head ; from various parts of the chief root, there issue 

 small tuberosities, which are employed as offsets, to cultivate 

 the plant by. Leaves radical, for the most part only one or 

 two, thrice-bifid ; divisions outwardly pinnatifid ; segments 

 obliquely oblong-, pointed, smooth ; size very unequal ; the 

 exterior one being always longer than the inferior one, the 

 whole leaf is from one to three feet each way. Petioles 

 round, tapering, with darker coloured green, pretty smooth, 

 clouded as long as the leaves. Spathe very large, leathery, 

 campanulate; the border curled ; smooth on both sides; the 

 outside near the base pale green ; the middle part deeper 

 green, and towards the margin greenish purple ; the bottom 

 deep dotted purple ; the spadix about as long as the spathe, 

 the lower third or pistiliferous part cylindric ; the middle 

 third or staminiferous portion somewhat turbinated, the club 

 or upper third part very broad, short, conical, or sub-globu- 

 lar, of a dark purple colour, variously lobate, and wrinkled 

 like a dried trufflle, in large plants this part is six inches in 

 diameter, and four in perpendicular height. Filamejits none. 



