Aris(ema.'\ Aracece. 351 



I -celled ov. at the base of the spadix, style short or o, 

 stigma disciform, ovules 2 or more, basilar, orthotropous ; 

 neuter fl, o or few, variously disposed, subulate; fr. a i-few- 

 seeded berry; embryo in copious endosperm. — Sp. about 50; 

 38 in Fl. B. Jnd. 



Appendage of spadix slender, exserted. 



Spathe acuminate, tip decurved . . . I. A. NEGLECTUM. 



Spathe abruptly caudate . . . . 2. A. FILICAUDATUM. 



Appendage of spadix cylindric, obtuse . . 3. A. Leschenaultii. 



1. A. neg-lectum, Schott in Bo7iplandia, v. 26 (1859). \jral- 

 kidaran, S. 



Arum pejitaphyllum, Moon, Cat. 64 (? Linn.). A. filiforme^ Thvv. 

 Enum. 335 (non BL). A. curvaium, Thw. 1. c. (non Kunth). A. 

 Wzghtii, Hk. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5507 (non Schott). C. P. 31 18. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 504. Bot. Mag. t. 5507 (from Ceylon specimens). 



Monoecious; tuber globose, i| in. diameter; stem 1-2 ft. 

 slender, clothed with long mottled sheaths ; 1. i or 2, pedately 

 5-7-foliolate, leaflets sessile or shortly petiolulate, oval or 

 oblanceolate, cuspidately or caudately acuminate, base acumi- 

 nate, bright green, many veined, petiole 3-10 in., terete, green ; 

 spathe 3-4 in., green, tube i| in., cylindric, striate, green and 

 white or purplish, base swollen, limb about as long, oblong, 

 cymbiform, obtusely acuminate, arched and tip incurved, 

 margins of mouth not or scarcely recurved; spadix rather 

 stout, much larger than the spathe, appendage up to 8 in. long, 

 sessile on the male infl., caudiform, very slender, pale yellow- 

 green, suddenly bent forward and then upwards and erect, 

 or decurved and pendulous ; anth. scattered, stipitate, solitary 

 or binate, occupying two-thirds of the spadix below the 

 appendage; ov. occupying the other third, ovoid-oblong, 

 green, stigma sessile, discoid. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. April, Sep. 

 Also in S.W. India. 



2. A. filicaudatum, N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 253 

 (1880). C. P. 3980. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 507. 



Dioecious ; 1. solitary, long-petioled, 6-7-foliolate, leaflets 

 whorled, sessile or subsessile, 5-9 by i|-2| in., lanceolate, 

 oblanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, 

 membranous, tip capillary, base cuneate, petiole i ft. or more ; 

 ped. stout, as long as the petiole ; spathe 2\ in., tube cylindric, 

 \\ in., limb 3 in. long, broadly ovate, incurved, abruptly con- 

 tracted into a filiform tail 6-10 in. long, with subclavate tip, 

 base narrowed ; male spadix i| in., slender, basal third covered 

 with 4-nate subsessile anth.; appendage \\ in., columnar, 



