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specimens iu the 'Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society,' v. 10 (1896) 

 p. 527. 



The plant is very common at Matheran, where its flowers appear about the end 

 of May. Wlion tlie anthers are ripe, tlie odor of the plant is most offensive, 

 resembling carrion, and visitors to the Hill often complain of defective comervancy 

 at this time. 



0. ARIOPSIS, Nimmo. 



A small tuberous herb. Leaves entire, peltate. Spathe small, cymbi- 

 form, open, persistent ; tube 0. Spadix shorter tban tbe spathe ; 

 appendage 0. Male flowers cylindric ; female adnata to the base of the 

 spatbe. Male inflorescence : Flowers imbedded in tbe tissue of the 

 spadix. Anthers connate in groups of 3, each 2-celled, surrounding a 

 pore into which they all open. Female inflorescence : Ovaries few, 

 oblong, 1-celled, secund ; ovules many, orthotropous, 2-seriate, on 4-G 

 parietal placentas : stigma sessile, stellately 4-6-lid. Berries 3-6- 

 angled, many-seeded. Seeds pendulous ; albumen copious ; embryo 

 axile. — DiSTRiB. Species 1, Indian. 



1. Ariopsis peltata, Nimmo, ex Grali. Cat. PI. Bo. (1839) p. 252. 

 A small plant ; tubers small, green, clustered, with many slender root- 

 fibres. Leaf solitary, 1-6 in. in diam., membranous, peltate, orbicular 

 or shallowly cordate, tip rounded or acute, glaucous beneath ; petiole 

 3-8 in. long, slender. Peduncle l|-4in. long, very slender ; cataphylls 

 2 or 3, white spotted with purple, j-J in. long. Spathe |-| by ^-^ in., 

 incurved, apiculate, violet with a green dorsal ridge, paler within. 

 Spadix shorter than the spathe, decurved ; appendage 0. Male flowers 

 dark purple ; female flowers gi-een. Stigma yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 ]). 519 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 259 ; Engler, in DC. Monog. Phau. v. 2 (1879) 

 p. 528 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4222; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 ]>. 428. Ariopsis protanthera, N. E. Brown, in Kep. Roy. Gard. Kew 

 (1877) p. 51. Remusatia vivipara, Wight, Icon. t. 900 {not of Schott). 

 — Flowers : June-Sept. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Dalzcll ^ Gibson ; Neral below Matheran, Woodrow. — Disteib. 

 India (W. subtropical Himalaya, Birnia, W. Peninsula). 



10. REMUSATIA, Schoit. 



Tuberous herbs, emitting long leafless bulbilhferous shoots from the 

 crown of the tuber. Leaf solitary, entire, peltate, coming up after the 

 flowers. Flowers monoecious. Spathe coriaceous, shortly stipitate ; 

 tube convolute, constricted at the mouth, accrescent over the fruit ; limb 

 broad or narrow, erect, or spreading and reflexed, deciduous. Spadix 

 very short, sessile ; appendage 0. Male and female inflorescences 

 tlistant, with interspersed neuters. Male inflorescence formino' a 

 clavate mass of densely packed flat-topped anthers mixed with neuters, 

 the individual stamens with a fleshy connective bearing 2-3 small 

 immersed anther-cells opening by terminal slits. Female inflor- 

 escence short, cylindi'ic. Ovaries closely packed, ovoid, 1-celled; 

 ovules many, on parietal placentas, orthotropous ; stigma sessile, discoid. 

 Fruit of small clustered berries. Seeds small ; albumen copious ; 

 embryo axile. — Distrib. Si)ecies 2, Indian. '- 



