352 Aracece. [Typhonium. 



slightly constricted about the middle, base hardly thickened, 

 tip clavate, smooth ; fem. spadix 2 in. long, infl. conical, f in. 

 long, ov. globose, stigmas pulvinate; appendage ^7 in. long, 

 erect, cylindric 



Moist region ; very rare. I have seen only the C. P. specimens, col- 

 lected in Morovvak Korale at about 3000 ft., in July, 1865, by Thwaites. 

 Endemic. 



3. A. Xieschenaultil, Bhoiie, Rumphia, i. 93 (1835). Wal- 

 XLidaran, 6^. 



A. papillosum, Steud., Thw. Enum. 335. C. P. 546. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 504. Bot. Mag. t. 5496 (from Ceylon specimens). 



Monoecious or dioecious; tuber globose, 2 in. diam.; stem 

 6 in., stout, clothed with long mottled sheaths; 1. pedatipartite, 

 leaflets 5-1 1, whorled, subsessile, lanceolate, caudate-acumi- 

 nate, dark green above with a stout midrib, pale beneath, base 

 acuminate; petiole stout, 1-2 ft. long, pale green irregularly 

 barred or mottled with pale purple ; spathe emerging from the 

 sheath of the petiole, very shortly peduncled, 6-18 in. long, 

 dark green, externally striped with pale green or dull purple, 

 very dark green within, tube as long as the limb, narrow, 

 ribbed, erect, gradually dilated into the slightly dccurved, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cymbiform limb which terminates 

 in a filiform clavellate tip sometimes 3 in. long ; spadix up to 

 3 in. long, gradually passing into a very narrowly clavate, pale 

 green, smooth appendage longer than the infl. with a rounded 

 sometimes vcrruculose top; anth. 3-4-nate, sessile, with a few 

 subulate neuters above them ; o\^ very many, minute, densely 

 crowded. 



Montane region, in shady places ; common. Fl. Sept., &c. ; colour 

 of spathe very variable. 

 Also in Western India. 



5. TYPKONZUBI, Schoti. 

 Tuberous, monoecious herbs, stem o; 1. few, petioled, 

 entire, 3-5-lobed or -partite, penniveined; spathe peduncled, 

 constricted above the short convolute persistent tube, limb 

 refracted, broad, deciduous ; spadix included, or male infl. 

 and appendage exscrted, male and fem. infl. distant, with 

 neuters above the fem. and sometimes below the male, 

 appendage elongate, smooth; anth. subsessile, didymous; 

 ov. I -celled, stigma sessile, pulvinate, ovules 1-2, basal, erect, 

 orthotropous ; berries ovoid, 1-2-seeded; seeds globose, embryo 

 axile in copious endosperm. — Sp. about 17; 10 in FL B. 

 Ind. 



