S22- cxiA. auack.t:. 



p. 428 ; Wait, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 312. Arum Murrayi, Grah. 

 Cat. PI. Bo. (1839) p. 229.— Flowers : May-July. y^us". Sdpacha 

 Kdnda (i. e. Snake root). 



KosKAN : Stocls I ; Matheran, Gool-e ! Deccan : Mabableshwar, Cooke !, Graham, 

 Dal:ell <^- Gihwn ; Sinliagad, Woodrow ; Puranclbar, Bhiva ! ; Kliandala, Bhiva ! 

 GCJARAT : Bansda Hill S.W. of Sumt, Law. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Very common at Mabableshwar, wbere it is known to the residents as the Cohra- 

 or S7i('i/a'-'L\ly. It appears about the end of May or beginning of June all over the 

 hill, its white flowers without leaves being conspicuous objects throughout the woods. 

 It is equally common at Matheran. 



4. Arissema caudatum, Enr/ler, in DO. Monocj. Phan. v. 2 (1879) 

 p. 559. Tuber depressed-globose. Leaf solitary ; j^etiole stout and as 

 well as the peduncle barred and streaked ; leaflets 7, petiolulate, 5 by 

 2 in. (exclusive of the thread-like tips), cuneately elliptic, acuminate 

 and with long capillary tips 1-3 in. long. Peduncle very short. Spathe 

 6 in. long (not including the 3 in. caudate tip) ; tube elongate, cylindric ; 

 limb incurved, ovate-lanceolate, rather abruptly narrowed into a very 

 long subulate tail ; margins below recurved. tSpadix androgynous ; 

 appendage included, shorter than the flowering portion, not thickened 

 below, the tip rounded. PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 508 ; AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 428. 



KoNKAN : Stocks (Icon, in Herb. Kew.) ! 



The description given above is that of Sir Joseph Hooker, made from a drawing by 

 Stocks which is in Herb. Kew. There are no specimens of the plant in Herb. Kew. 

 Engler [1. c.) says that he has seen cue badly dried specimen. 



5. TYPHONIUM, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs. Leaves entire, or 3-5-lobed, or pedatiscct. Flowers 

 monoecious. Tube of spathe short, convolute, with a constricted mouth, 

 persistent ; limb of spathe ovate-oblong, lanceolate, or linear, deciduous. 

 Spadix usually exserted, with a long smooth barren appendage. Male 

 and female inflorescences distant, with neuters above the females and 

 sometimes also below the males. Male inflorescence : Stamens 1-3 ; 

 anthers subsessile, the cells contiguous, opening by pores or chinks ; 

 pollen globose. Female inelobescence : Ovary 1-celled ; ])lacenta 

 basal ; ovules 1-2, erect ; stigma sessile. Fruit of ovoid 1-2-seeded 

 berries. Seeds globose ; albumen copious ; embryo axile. — Disteib. 

 Tropics of the Old World ; species abotit 17. 



Leaves bearing bulbs ; neuters above the female inflorescence 



linear 1. T. hulhiferum. 



Leaves not bearing bulbs ; neuters above the female inflores- 

 cence clavate or obovoid 2. T. cuspidatum. 



1 . Typhonium bulbiferum, Dalz. in Keiv Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) 

 p. 113. A small plant 4 8 in. high ; tuber i-| in. in diam. Leaves 

 triangulai-haslate, sagittate or cordate, 2-4 in. long and often as broad 

 across the lobes, tlie angles acute; petiole 5-6 in. long, slender, usually 

 witli a pisiform tuber at the top. Peduncle 1--| in. long. Spathe 

 slender, pale rose-colored, 3-5 in. long, convolute ; tube ^-4 in. long. 

 Spadix as long as the spatho, slender, yellow ; appendage fliiforni. 

 Neuters above the female inflorescence linear, erect, yellow. Anthers 



