354 -^ raceCE. [ Theriophonum. 



naked ; appendage very long, stipitate, cylindric or narrowed 

 from the truncate base to the tip, dark purple; anth. minute; 

 ov. densely crowded, stigmas pulvnnate; neuters crowded in a 

 short cylindric column, subulate, recurved, yellow. 



Low country in moist region ; apparently rare. About Colombo 

 (Ferguson) ; weed in I'eradeniya Gardens. Fl. March-August, De- 

 cember. 



Also at Singapore. 



Engler considers this as a variely only of T. divaricatum. Dene. I 

 suspect Annn dhuiricaitan, L., to be either this or T. aispidatuvi 

 (and not T. divarica/iiiii, Dene.). It is Fl. Zeyl. n. 325, but unfortunately 

 there are no specimens in Hermann's Herb. Linn;cusalso (|uotes Rheede, 

 Hort. Mai. xi. t. 20, which Engler refers to T. cuspidafuin. — Triuien. 



T. divaricattiDi^ Dene. I suspect confusion here. This widely dis- 

 tributed species is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 510, but the 

 localities quoted are those above given for T. Roxbtirghii. I have seen 

 no specimens. Figured in Wight, Ic. t. 790. — Tj-nncn. 



3. T. cuspidatum, Dctie. in Nouv. Atin. Mus. Par. iii. 367 (1834). 



Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 167. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 511 (not given for Ceylon). Blume, Rumphia i. t. 30, 

 Wight Ic. t. 791. 



Tuber about i in. diam. ; 1. long-petioled, 2-5 in. long, 

 hastately oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, basal lobes short sub- 

 acute, sinus narrow or open, petiole 4-10 in.; spathe 4-5 in., 

 peduncled, green, tube ^-i in., ribbed, limb three times as 

 long as the tube, very narrowly linear-lanceolate, narrowed to 

 the decurved or pendulous tip ; spadix shortly stipitate, 

 slender, male infl. \ in., cylindric, fem. shortly cylindric, inter- 

 space covered with clavate, purple-headed neuters below the 

 male infl. and subulate white ones above it ; anth. minute, 

 yellow ; ov. clavate, green ; appendage stipitate, as long as 

 the spathe, slender, acuminate. 



Moist low country ; apparently very rare, but probably overlooked. 

 Round Colombo Lake, 1886 (P^crguson). Fl. July. 



Also in Bengal, Burma, and i\Ialaya. 



6. TKERIOPHONUM, /;/. 

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

 spathe constricted above the short convolute persistent tube, 

 limb deciduous ; spadi.x included, slender, male and fem. infl. 

 distant, male with subulate neuters above it, and long narrow 

 clavate ones immediately below it, fem. of few ov. at the base 

 of the spadix, interspace beween the fem. infl. and lower 

 neuters naked; anth. sessile, globose; ov. sessile, i -celled, 

 stigmas pulvinate, ovules many, pendulous from the top of the 

 cell, orthotropous ; berries ovoid or oblong. — Sp. 5; all in 

 77. 11 hid. 



