Arum. MONOECiA monandria. r>ll 



soon after the decay of the flowers, the leaves make tlieir ap- 

 pearance, and continue during the rainy season. 



Root perennial, turnip-shaped, an<l about the same size 

 with fleshy fibres from every part, particularly the crown. 

 Stem none. Leaves radical, generally single, long-petioled, 

 commonly divided into three, petioled, once or twice dichoto- 

 mous, pinnatifid, though in stunted plants they are frequently 

 trigeminate. Leaflets broad-lanceolar, acute, entire, smooth, 

 (he breadth of the whole leaf is often four feet ; small, com- 

 pressed, round bulbs are almost always present on the upper 

 side of the divisions of the leaves. Petioles from one to four 

 feet long, round, smooth, clouded, tapering a little towards 

 the top. Scape erect, from the crown of the root, round, 

 smooth, about six inches long, beautifully clouded with olive, 

 and pale orange tinged with pink. Spat he cauled, ovate 

 w hen taken oft' and spread, smooth on both sides ; at the base 

 on the outside clouded like the scape; above and on the in- 

 side pink. Spathe cylindric, nearly the length of the spadix, 

 clul) obtuse, and about one third of the whole, buff*-colour- 

 ed. Filament none. Jlnthers two-celled. JVectaries none, 

 nor any intermediate space between the stamens and pistils. 

 Germs roundish, two-celled, one of which even in the germ 

 is for the most part abortive, the other contains one curved 

 ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style scarcely 

 any. Stigma four-lobed. Berries one-seeded. 



21. A. sylvaticum. Roxb. 



Leaves super-decompound ; leaflets lanceolate. Spadix 

 straight, two or three times longer than the short, gibbous 

 campanulate spathe. Anthers two-celled. 



Teling. ?7davee chaina. 



A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars. Flower- 

 ing time the wet season. 



Root perennial, tuberous, nearly smooth like a potato. 

 Stem none. Leaves radical, one or two, petioled, thrice two 

 nr more lobed ; lobes pinnatifid ; segments lanceolate, smooth. 



