350 AraceCB. [Anscema^ 



with the stout midrib below, diverging upwards; peduncle 

 2-3 in. long, slender, thickening in fr. ; spathe 3-5 in. long, 

 pale green without, dark purple within, tube obconic, much 

 shorter than the smooth subulate limb; male infl. cylindric, 

 anth. densely crowded, appendage clavate; ov. in many cycles, 

 forming a short green column, connate below, i-ovuled, 

 stigma disciform ; syncarp pendulous from the long, stout, 

 decurved ped., globose, about i in. diam., carpels ^ in. long, 

 crown rounded; seeds | in. long, linear-oblong, dark brown, 

 deeply grooved. 



Wet places in moist low country ; rather rare. Singhe Raja Forest ; 

 Galpana; Palewatu, Pasdun Korale; Morotuwa. Fl. Jan. -April. 

 Endemic. 



5. Ii. insigrnis, Tn'm. m Jotirti. Bot. xxiii. 269 (1885). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 496. 



Rootstock columnar, i| in. diam., closely annulately 

 scarred, roots very stout, vermiform ; 1. long-petioled, 6-12 by 

 3-4 in., oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rather 

 membranous, margins quite entire, closely minutely dotted 

 beneath, base acute, veins very many and slender, divergent 

 from the very stout midrib, scuriily papillose beneath, petiole 

 very stout, shorter than the blade, concave above ; peduncle 

 stout ; spathe 6-8 in. long, closely ribbed externally, tube 

 \\-2 in. long, funnel-shaped, limb 6-9 by 2-3 in. broad, 

 strongly recurved, oblong, truncate, abruptly caudate, strongly 

 ribbed, streaked with white and purple externally, within 

 dark purple, crisped transversely undulate and lacunose, 

 tail \-\\ in., slender; male infl. cylindric, densely crowded; 

 ov. in about 6 cycles, forming a globose head. 



By streams ; very rare. As yet only found in Palewatu Forest, Pasdun 

 Korale. Fl. March-May. 



Endemic. 



The spathes stain paper of a purple colour. Spathe purple, with white 

 veins and infl. and fl. as in L. toxicaria. 



4. ARZSS:BIA, Mart. 



Tuberous, monoecious or dioecious herbs, stem rooting from 

 above the tuber; 1. one or few, long-petioled, compound, 

 leaflets whorlcd, penniveined, veins meeting in an intra- 

 marginal one; spathe solitary, peduncled, deciduous in fr. ; 

 tube convolute, cylindric, limb various; spadix included in 

 the spathe or exserted, terminated by a cylindric clavate or 

 caudiform appendage; male infl. of many stipitate or sessile 

 2-ccllcd anth., with short vertical slits; fem. infl. of many 



