824 CXLI. ARACEM. 



remaiuiiig ones basal, erect. Fruit angular, 4-5-seeded, Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 513; Engler, in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 2 (1879) p. 608; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 428. Tapinocarims indicus, Dalz. 

 in Kew Jouru. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 346; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 258. 

 Tapinocarims DahelHi, Schott, Gen, Aroid. (1858) t. 15,— Flowers: 

 J uly-Aug, 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Dalzell ! ; Vingorla, Babell ; moist grassy places in S. Konkan, 

 Dalzdl # Gibson; Kalyan, Woodrow\ Kanaka: Karwar, Talbot, 851— Distrib, 

 India (W. Peninsula). 



7, SAUROMATUM, Schott, 

 Tuberous herbs leafing after flowering. Leaf solitary, pedatipartite 

 with a long petiole. Flowers monoecious, Spathe with a short 

 peduncle ; tube cylindric, short, the margins connate below ; limb very 

 long, nari'ow, open, reflexed. Spadix sessile, very long, with a slender 

 barren appendage as long as the spathe. Male and female inflorescences 

 short, widely distant, dense-flowered, with a few large clavate neuters 

 close above the females. Male inflorescence : Anthers large, sessile, 

 subcompressed, 4-lobed ; cells contiguous, opposite, obovate-oblong, 

 opening by terminal pores ; connective at length prominent. Female 

 INFLORESCENCE : Ovary oblong, 1-celled, rounded at the apex ; ovules 

 1-2, erect, basal ; style very short or 0, Fruit of obpyramidal 1-seeded 

 substipitate berries. Seeds globose or somewhat convex, with an obconic 

 strophiole ; albumen copious ; embryo axile. — Distrib. Tropical Asia 

 and Africa ; species about 6. 



1. Sauromatrum guttatumy Schott, in Schott (^- EndJich. Meletem. 

 (1832) p, 17. Tuber large. Leaf pedatisect, 6-12 in, broad ; segments 

 7-15, variable, 2-15 by 1-3 in., elliptic, acuminate, deep green ; midrib 

 and veins impressed above, prominent beneath, the lower part of the 

 midrib often spotted; petiole stout, 12-18 in. long, green or spotted. 

 Peduncle rather short, stout, green or spotted. Spathe 12-28 in. long; 

 tube ovoid or subglobose ; limb linear-lanceolate, thick, green or yel- 

 lowish, usually with dark purple spots or blotches, the margins generally 

 purple and waved. Spadix shorter than the spathe ; appendage 2-8 in. 

 long, cylindric and obtuse, or narrowed from the base to a tine point, 

 green or dark purple. Male inflorescence ^ in. long, about 3 in. 

 above the female. Anthers densely packed. Female inflorescence 

 ^ in. long. Neuters | in, long, spreading, close above the female. 

 Fl, B. 1. V, 6, p. 508 ; ilngler, in DC, Mouog. Phan. v. 2 (1879) p. 570; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v, 13 (1901) p, 428 ; Prain, Beng. PI, 

 p, 1109. Sauromatum punctatum, C, Koch, in AVochenschr, v, 1 (1858) 

 p. 263; N, E. Brown, in Gard. Chron. (1880) part 2, p, 134, Arum 

 .fessiliforum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 507 ; Wight, Icon. t. 800.— 

 Flowers : April, Vern, JS'urJci. 



Konkan: Stocks; Thnna, Law, Lisboa. Deccan : Milwal (Pooua districts), Wood- 

 row; Laiioli, }Viiiii/roir'.— l)i!<iiuR. India (PanjAb, Upjjer Qangetio Plain, Himalaya 

 from Ni));il to yiiiihi, W. Pt'iiiiiBulii). 



Tlie leaf ligiired as the leaf of Pj//honium Wallichiamim in the 'Journal of tlio 

 Hombiiy Natural History .Society' [v. 7 (189;3) p. 312, plate D] is tliat of this plant. 

 'Ilic inlloresfence figured on the same plate is that oi AmorpltophaUus commntaluB, 

 Engler, 



