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8. AMORPHOPHALLUS, Blume. 



Tuberous hei-bs flowering before or together with the leaves. Leaf 

 solitary, 3-partite ; segineuts pinnatisect. Flowers monoecious. Spathe 

 with au open or conv-olute funnel-shaped or campanulate limb. Spadix 

 exserted or included ; appendage large, short or long. Inflorescence 

 cylindric, dense-flowered ; males and females contiguous ; neuters 0. 

 ]Malb inflorescence : Stamens 2-4 ; anthers sessile, the cells oblong, 

 opening by apical pores. Female inelorescenoe : Ovaries globose, 

 1-4-celled; ovules in each cell solitary, sub-basal, anatropous ; style 

 short or long ; stigma entire or 2-4-lobed. Fruit of clustered sub- 

 globose or obovoid berries. Seeds large; albumen ; embryo macro- 

 podous. — DiSTKiB. Tropics of the Old A\^orld ; species 30-40, 



Leaves bulbiferous 1- A. bulhifer. 



Leaves not bulbiferous. 



Spatlie greenish-pink, 6-10 in. broad; appendage irre- 

 gularly amorphous, dark-purple 2. A. campanulatus, 



Spathe brownish-purple, 2-5 in. broad ; appendage terete, 



smooth, cream-colored 3. A. commutatus. 



1, Amorphophallus bulbifer, Blume, Rumpliia, v. 1 (1835) p. 148. 

 Tuber globose, 2-4 in. in diam. Leaf 12-18 in. in diam., ultimately 

 bulbilliferous at the base, on the forks and on the nerves above ; petiole 

 3-4 ft. long, spotted ; leaflets 3-8 in. long, obovate or lanceolate, with 

 purple edges. Peduncle 8-12 in. long, green and pink, streaked with 

 green or black. Spathe 5-8 in. long, erect, pale-pink or yellowish 

 shaded with pink, rose- pink inside. Spadix sessile ; appendage 3-4 in. 

 long, conoid or oblong, rounded at the top, pale flesh-colored or white. 

 Male inelorescence reaching 1| in. long. Anthers short. Female 

 INFLORESCENCE 1 in. long. Stigma 2-lobed. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 515 ; 

 Engler, in DC. Mouog. Phan. v. 2 (1879) p. 317 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 428 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1109 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 225. Arum bulbiferum, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 

 (]814) p. 65, Bot. Mag. t. 2072 & t. 2508; Grab. Cat. p. 229.— 

 Flowers in April ; leaves appear in June and July. 



Konkan: S. Konkan, Graham. S. M. Country: Londa, Woodrow. This is 

 i 'cluded on the authority of Graham, vpho gives the S. Konkan as its habitat, and 

 of Woodrow, who reports its occurrence at Londa near Dharwar in the S. M. Country. 

 I have seen no specimens from the Bombay Presidency ; there are none in Herb. 

 Kew. — DiSTRiB. India (Bengal, Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Birma, W. Peninsula). 



2. Amorphophallus campanulatus, Blume ex Decaisne, in Nouv. 

 Ann. 3lus. Far. v. 3 (1834) p. 306. Tuber depressed-globose, 8-10 in. 

 in diam., bulbiferous, dark brown. Leaves appearing long after the 

 flowers, 1-3 ft. broad; segments spreading, simple or forked : petioles 

 2-3 ft. long, stout, warted, dark green, with paler blotches ; leaflets 

 2-5 in. long, of variable width, obovate or oblong, acute, strongly many- 

 veined, with green edges. Peduncle short, stout, elongating in fruit ; 

 sheaths linear-oblong. Spathe campanulate, pointed, 6-10 in, broad, 

 strongly closely veined, with recurved undulate and crisped margins, 

 greenish-pink externally with pale ocellated blotches, base within 

 purple. Spadix as long as the spathe ; appendage varying in size 

 up to 8 by 5 in., globose, conoid or amorphous, sinuately lobulate, 



