CXXXV. AROIDER. 153 
1. TYPHONIUM, Schott. 
Spatha contracted above the convolute base, the lamina broad, 
spreading or recurved. Flowers unisexual, the females at the base of 
the spadix, with subulate neutral organs immediately ae them, = 
males separated by a bare interval, the spadix terminating in a lo 
bic fleshy appetdage. erianth none. Anthers 2-celled, seasilo i in 
peltate, sessile or shortly stipit Berry 1-seeded. Albumen 
copious.— Herbs with a hard tuberous rhizome. Leaves entire or 3- 
lobed, radical as well as the sc 
The genus is generally spread over the warmer regions of the Old World. It 
differs from the European group now considered as the typical Arum, depen fi in the 
solitary ovules. The Australian species are, as far as known, endemi 
Leaves linear, 1 ft, long or more cw. T iy. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolale, 3 or 4 in. 1. Jong . eos « s. À. T. alismifolium, 
Leaves 3-lobed. 
i cr — ge & x Ab Qoi 8 T. Bronte 
Lobes linear auiceuisuie 4 T. gne 
Pig temi re 1i "d long, ineladin g the M. which is 
sheathing at the base and gradua s 2n 
broader and tapering to a point. Scape about Gin. high. Spat tha wi 
j in. long, vU deos to a point. Female spike at the base of the spadix 
, ut $ in. long. Neutral o organs filiform, recurved, uon 
umerous. Male spike after a bare interval of ab 
cylindrical, about $ in. long. Appendage ecce ania. thik 
is ely truncate at the base, A conical, ac e, about 5 
ong. rry ovoid-globular. —F. ete ll. Fragm. xi L187. : 
Australia. Victoria River, F. Mueller. The reference vr ugs aer by Schott and 
copied by F. Mueller to "Hook Kew. Miscell 1856, 321, is not This 
plant was only in manuscript labels by F. Mueller, but is mentioned Hioned without 
` SPecifie name in Hook. Kew. Journ. viii. 329, in a paper of F. Mueller's 
das T. alismifolium, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 186.—4A smaller plant 
t he other Fes species, the tuber estan smaller and vcn 
Leaves undivided, ovate-lanceolate or lanceola 
Purple S = 
or almost black inside, 4 to 5 in. long, tapering 
and not 1} in. broad in the broadest t part. Flowers in‘ isse ihe sme relire zu 
Position as in the other Australian species, the terminal appendage 
rather long. Berry ovoid-globular, about 2 lines diameter. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
