Plants of the Punjab, 515 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE EXxsTIPULATE ComPoUND LEAVES, 
Amphicome Emodi, 
Ariszema utile, 
ARACE or 
AROIDEA. 
BB. bo wi. 499: 
Himalaya, 
,000-9,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Arisema 
intermedium, 
ARACE OF 
AROIDEA. 
Be Besley. 500) 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra, 
Mahasu (Collett), 
Ariseema 
Wallichianum, 
ARACEZ or 
AROIDER. 
F.Boke-viz 500. 
Himalaya, 
cast of the Sutle}, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Mashobra, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Jaku, Baghi, 
Nathiagali (Douie). 
PETALS UNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 
PETALS NONE. 
small to medium size, perennial, root tuberous, 3-5 
in. diam., depressed above; leaf solitary, stalk 8-10 in., 
thick, smooth, green, base sheathing, digitately compound, 
leaflets 3, sessile, oblong-ovate or ovate with a broad tip, 
margins wavy, golden, round-toothed ; flowers small, one 
sexual, crowded on a fleshy, erect rod or spadix, terminat- 
ing the stemmoreorless enclosed in a sheath, or spathe} 
lower portion of spathe (tube) folded round the spadix, 
upper portion of spathe (limb) open, spreading, male 
flowers scattered, consisting of a shortly stalked head of 
8 anthers, female flowers crowded, consisting of an one- 
celled ovary, spathe-limb 4 in. broad, red-brown or purplish, 
netted, oblong or ovate with a broad end, broadly notched 
or 2-lobed with a short purple tail that bends round the 
long thread-like tail of the spadix, lobes of limb forming 
2 dull violet flaps which overhang the tube, spadix stout, 
tail purple, suddenly narrowed from a broad disc-shaped 
lobed base into the twisted thread-like extremity, fruiting 
spike naked ; berries red, usually one-seeded. 
rootstock oblique or shortly creeping and rooting, 
leaf usually solitary, sometimes two, leaflets ovate, long- 
pointed, lateral oblique, middle one longest, spathe green, 
striped with purple and white, limb gradually narrowed 
into a long point, spadix tail green, base only purple, male 
and female flowers on different plants ; otherwise like the 
last species. 
root tuberous, depressed, leaf solitary, leaflets broadly 
ovate, shortly-pointed, middle one circular, spathe-tube 
ribbed, dark green on a pale ground, limb broad, abruptly 
contracted in a short tail-like tip, centre dark purple- 
striped, margins chequered with pale green veins, ex- 
tremity of spadix purple ; otherwise like the last species, 
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