512 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. ArUVl. 



The whole leaf is from eighteen to thirty inches each way. 

 Petioles erect, from one to two feet long, smooth, clouded. Pe- 

 tioles winged. Scape erect, round, the length of the petioles, 

 smooth. Spatlie one third the length of the spadix, opening 

 at, and near the apex only. C/m& thrice the length of the 

 rest of the spathe, tapering to a long subulate point. Sta- 

 mens numerous, occupying about two inches of the spadix, 

 just within the apex of the spathe, singly sessile, and round- 

 ish, with two polliniferous cells, which open on the apex. 

 JVectary, some smooth, irregular, glandular bodies are plac- 

 ed between the stamens and germs. Germs numerous, glo- 

 bular, surrounding an inch of the base of the spadix, they 

 have the rudiments of three ovula. Style very short. Stig^ 

 ma large, three-lobed, glutinous, yellow. Berries one, two 

 or three-seeded. 



JVote. Roots brought from the mountains grew and flow- 

 ered in my garden at Samulkota, but it is perfectly unknown 

 to the natives of the low country. I am therefore ignorant 

 of its uses. 



22. A. margaritifer. Roxh. 



Herbaceous, stemless. Leaves trifid, with entire, narrow- 

 lanceolate, pinnatifid segments. Spathe campanulate, equal- 

 ling the obtuse spadix ; nectaries like large pearls. 



A native of Hindoostan, from thence introduced into the 

 Botanic garden, where it flowers in May, and June, some- 

 times before the leaves appear. 



Root a roundish, solid tuber, which produces roundish 

 ofisets in every part; size various; six inches in diameter. 

 Leaves decompound ; segments narrow, lanceolate, entire, 

 acuminate. Scape straight, erect, cylindric, as thick as a 

 man's thumb, and about two feet long, variegated, with 

 deeper and lighter green. Base embraced by one, two, or 

 three withering sheaths. Spathes sub-campanulate, ob- 

 tuse, the length of the spadix, smooth; the prevailing colour 

 a pale greenish yellow, with the bottom of the bell dark pur- 



