Pathos.'] AracecE. 363. 



ov. ovoid, I -celled, style stout, stigma a depressed disk, ovule 

 solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell, semi-anatropous; 

 berries obpyramidal, 6-angled, top muricate ; seeds compressed,, 

 rugose, endosperm o, embryo macropodous. — Monotypic. 



Ii. aculeata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 81 (1790). BLohila, S. 



Herm. Par. Batav. 75 ; Mus. 56, 64. Burm. Thes. 34. Fl. Zeyl. n. 328. 

 Dracontiiiin spiiwsum., L. Sp. PI. 967 ; Moon, Cat. 30. L. Hennanniy 

 Schott in Bonpl. 1. c. L. spi/iosa, Thw. Enum. 336. C. P. 2978. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 550 (Z. heleropliylla, Schott). Wight, Ic. t. TJJ (L. 

 heteropJiylla., Schott). 



Rootstock creeping, i in. diam. ; 1. 6-18 in. long, rigidly 

 coriaceous, young hastate or sagittate, old pinnatifid, seg- 

 ments lanceolate, acuminate, smooth above, beneath costate, 

 and strongly penniveined, midrib and veins naked or spinous- 

 beneath, petiole 2-4 ft., terete, base sheathing; spathe 8-14 

 in., spirally twisted above the spadix, about as thick as the 

 little finger, acute, green or yellowish, margins very dark 

 purple except at the base, open at the base only when the 

 pollen is being discharged, closing afterwards ; spadix about 

 I in., claret-col'd., fruiting 4-5 in. and i in. diam.; fl. sessile, 

 perianth -segm. 4-5, concave, dorsally hooded, dull pink; 

 fil. very broad, anth.-cells oblong, divaricate below ; ov. short, 

 columnar, green, stigma large, sessile, pulvinate, pink; fr. an 

 oblong or capitate syncarp 2 in. diam., of muricate berries 

 \ in. diam. 



Moist low country ; rather common. Fl. Dec. 



Also in Assam, Bengal, China, Burma, Malaya ; not in Peninsular 

 India. 



Very variable in foliage ; Engler (Mon. 274) makes a variety of 

 L. Herinan7ii., Schott, with very much-divided leaves. 



Rootstock eaten in famine times. 



14. FOTKOS, L. 



Evergreen, branching shrubs, climbing by aerial roots ; 1. 

 distichous, entire, coriaceous, articulate on the winged or 

 slender petiole, costa stout, veins very many with anastomos- 

 ing venules, all meeting in an intramarginal vein ; spathe 

 small, reflexed, cymbiform or elongate, coriaceous, persistent,, 

 ped. short or long, stout or slender, sometimes deflexed ;. 

 spadix sessile or stipitate, globose, ovoid, oblong, or linear, 

 densely covered with bisexual fl. ; sep. 6, short, tips incurved ; 

 stam. 6, fil. flat, anth.-cells oval, slits extrorse ; ov. ovoid or 

 depressed, 3-celled, cells i-ovuled, stigma small, sessile; ovule- 

 in the innner angle of the cell, anatropous; berries 1-2-seeded;, 



