Lagenandra.'] AraceCB. ^4q 



■obtuse, spathes very shortly peduncled, 1-2 in., dark purple, 

 densely warted in longitudinal streaks, tube obconic, half as 

 long as the limb, which is ventricose at the base ; ov. in 5-6 

 cycles, connate at the very base, stigma conical. 



Banks of streams and rivers in moist low country ; common. Fl. Feb. 



Endemic. 



Leaves often a uniform red-purple. — Trinien. In Ic. Herb. Peraden. 

 some are represented as light-red-brown beneath ; others as green on 

 both surfaces. — J- D- H. 



3. Ii. toxicaria, Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 289 (1852). 

 V^tala, ^\ 



Caladiuvi ovatum^ Vent., Moon, Cat. 64. L. ovata, Thw. Enum. 334, 

 C. P. 3315. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 495. Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 23. 



Rootstock as thick as the wrist, creeping, simple, annulate, 

 root-fibres vermiform; 1. 12-18 by 3-5 in., oblong or oval- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, base acute or rounded, 

 margins undulate, quite entire, veins very many, slender, 

 diverging from the stout costa, petiole as long as the blade, 

 semi-cylindric, as stout as the little finger, stipular sheaths 

 acuminate, 2-keeled; peduncle much shorter and more slender 

 than the petiole, compressed ; spathe 3-6 in., dull green 

 streaked with purple externally, dark purple within, tube 

 broadly ovoid, limb ovate-lanceolate, i-ii in. broad, caudate- 

 acuminate, slightly twisted, tail 2-3 in. long ; male infl. 

 cylindric, anth. crowded, yellow, cells with tubular tips, 

 appendage short, conical, purple ; ov. in many cycles, crowded 

 in a globose head, obconic or subglobose, angled, stigma 

 sessile, pulvinate, 5-angled, ovules 4-8 on a basal placenta ; 

 syncarp on a very stout decurved peduncle, globose, 1^-2 in. 

 diam., carpels about ^ in. long, free, partially dehiscent, crown 

 green, rounded; seeds yV i"- lo'ig- narrowly oblong, terete, 

 furrowed. 



In shallow water in the moist low country ; very common. Fl. Feb. 



A.lso in S. India. 



Rootstock reputed poisonous in Peninsular India. 



4. Xi. Koenigrii, Thu: Etium. 334 (1864). 

 Cryptocoryne Kcenigii^ Schott, Prod. Aroid. 16. C. P. 3496. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 496. Engler, Ic. ined. Arac. t. 15. 



Rootstock columnar, i ft. long, i^ in. diam., annulately 

 scarred, with very stout vermiform roots at the base; 1. 

 crowded, subsessile on the top of the rootstock, 1-2 ft. by 

 :|-f in., loriform or very narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 thickly coriaceous, dark brown when dry, clouded with white 

 beneath, base narrowed into a short, stout petiole, which is 

 concave above and trigonous at the base, veins nearly parallel 



