CXT.t. AUACEvE. 823 



sessile, dehiscing by a terminal pore. Pollen rosy, hispid. Style 0. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 511 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 258 ; Engler, in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. V. 2 (1879) p. 611 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 428 ; Watt, Diet. Eeon. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 208. 



Konkan: Stocks'.; S. Koiikan, Dalzell, Woodrow. —Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Typhonium cuspidatum, Decaisne, in Nouv. Ann. Miis. Par. 

 V. 3 (1834) p. 367. Tuber |-1 in. in diam., subglobose. Leaves 

 2-4| in. long, of variable width, hastately or cordately oblong or 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; basal lobes short, subacute : sinus narrow 

 or open ; petiole 4-10 in. long. Peduncle slender, long or short. 

 Spathe 4-7 in. long (including the tail), the lower portion lanceolate, 

 produced into a slender tail which reaches as much as 5 in. long. 

 Spadix shortly stipitate ; appendage produced into !i long filiform tail 

 and as long as or longer than the spathe. Male inflorescence | in. 

 long, cyhndric ; female shortly cylindric. Neuters above the female 

 inflorescence clavate or obovoid, purple-headed, those above the male 

 subulate, white. Anthers minute, yellow. Ovary clavate, green, 

 n. B. I. V. 6, p. 511 ; Engler, in DO. Monog. Phan. v. 2 (1879) p. 616 ; 

 Trim. El. Oeyl. v. 4, p. 354; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1107. Arum cuspi- 

 datum, Blume, Cat. Hort. Buit. (1823) p. 101. Arum flnqelliforme, 

 Eoxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 65; Lodd. Bot. Cab. (1819) t. 396; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 791. — Elowers : Aug.-Sept. 



Eare. Konkan : Parel near Bombay, Banade ! — Distrib. India (Bengal, Birma, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Islands. 



6. THERIOPHONUM, Blume. 



Tuberous monoecious herbs ; stem 0. Leaves few, petiolate, always 

 undivided, cordate or sagittate, appearing simultaneously with the 

 flowers. Tube of spathe short, convolute, constricted at the mouth, 

 persistent; limb deciduous. Spadix slender. Male and female in- 

 florescences distant, the male with subulate neuters above and long- 

 narrow clavate ones immediately below it, the female of obconic ovaries 

 at the base of the spadix, the interspace between the female inflorescence 

 and lower neuters naked. Anthers sessile, globose. Ovary sessile, 

 1-celled; stigmas pulvinate ; ovules many, some basilar and some 

 pendulous from the apex of the cell, orthotropous. Berries ovoid or 

 oblong. — DisTEiB. Species 5, all Indian. 



1. Theriophonum Dalzellii, Schott, Aroid. (1853) p. 15. Tuber 

 of the size of a walnut ; stem 0. Leaves appearing with the flowers, 

 4-8 in. long, of variable breadth, elliptic, oblong, or linear, acute or 

 subobtuse, base rounded or hastate, or sagittate ; petiole 4-10 in. long. 

 Peduncle stout, 3-6 in. long, from the sheathing base of the leaves, in 

 fruit twisted and curved to the ground. Spathe 4-7 in. long, oblong- 

 lanceolate ; tube green when young, soon fading to white ; limb flat, 

 deep purple, rapidly fading. Appendage of spadix terete, elongate^ 

 purple at the base, greenish-yellow above. Anthers rosy-purple, opening 

 by pores. Neuter flowers greenish-yellow. Ovary green ; ovules 4-6, 

 of which 1-3 are pendulous from the top of the cell of the ovary, the 



