AmorplippJialliis^ A racece. 355 



I. T. crenatum, Bhnne, Riiinph. i. 128 (1835). 



T. 3eyla)iicu»i and ctmatuni N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 

 258, 259 (1880). Afiein divan'caiiiin, Thw. Enum. 334 (non L.). A. cre- 

 naiitin, Wi<?hL in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 100. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 512. Hook. Bot. Misc. I.e. Suppl. t. 3 {A. crenafu/n). 



Tuber ^-i in. diam., subglobose ; 1. 2)-^ in. long, hastately 

 3-lobed, very variable in breadth, from narrowly linear to 

 deltoidly ovate, acute or acuminate, basal lobes ovate or 

 lanceolate, spreading, acute or rounded, sinus broad or narrow, 

 young 1. oblong, deeply cordate, tip rounded, petiole 4-10 in.; 

 spathe shortly peduncled, 2-|-3j in., erect, green, tube globose, 

 J in. diam., streaked with purple, limb oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 concave, margins crenately undulate, purple ; spadix sessile, 

 shorter than the spathe, erect ; male infl. about h in. long, 

 cylindric, anth. globose, beaked, purple; fem. of one whorl of 

 very slender globose ov. ; upper neuters very short, lower 

 slender, | in., falcate, spreading ; appendage cylindric, obtuse, 

 narrowed at the base; fr. on a stout decurved ped., of a whorl 

 of 6 or 8 oblong carpels with broad disciform stigmas. 



Grassy places in the dry country; rather common. Trincomalie 

 (Glenie) ; Puttalam (Pole) ; Anuradhapura ; Wellasce. Fl. Dec, Jan. 



Endemic. 



The leaves are much more deeply lobed in the Ceylon than in the 

 Peninsula specimens. 



7. AI^ORPIIOPHAX.ZiUS, Bl. 



Tuberous herbs, flowering before leafing, or together ; 

 1. tripartite, segments pinnatisect, veins pinnate, meeting in 

 an intramarginal one ; spathe campanulate, marcescent, tube 

 short, convolute, limb broadly expanded, margins undulate; 

 spadix very stout, appendage large ; infl. cylindric, male and 

 fem. contiguous, neuter organs o; anth. densely crowded in 

 groups of 2-4, sessile, cells oblong, pores apical; ov. 1-4-celled, 

 style long, stigma capitate, lobed, ovules solitary on each cell, 

 subbasilar, anatropous ; berry subglobose or obovoid ; seeds 

 large, endosperm o, embryo macropodous. — Sp. about 40 ; 14 

 in Fl. B, Ind. 



Tubers leafing after flg i. A. CAMPANULATUS. 



Tubers leafing and flg. contemporaneously . 2. A. dubius. 



I. A. campanulatus, BL ex Dene, in Ann. Miis. Par. iii. 366 

 (1834). Kidaran, S. 



Herm. Par. Batav. 89; Mus. 21, 33. Burm. Thes. 89, 90. Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 422 {Dracuficulus). Dracontiuni polypliylluni^ Willd., Moon, Cat. 30. 

 Thw. Enum. 335. C. P. 2823. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 513 and 514 {A. Rex), Wight, Ic. tt. 782, 785. 



