9. Plbsmonium.] 95. ABACUJE. [10. Amophophallus* 



tubular green leathery 4" deep purple within at base, flushed 

 purple above broadly ovate when unfolded. 



Common. Fls. June. Leaves do not appear till the rains are well set 

 in. 



Petiole 1^-2 it green. Peduncle ^ about 15'' mottled brown below, 

 bract at base 4'' narrow oblong cuspidate dry. Bpadix 4-5''. F. portion 

 about I", above this yellow disciform neuterB, then the male portion 

 about 3 7 . 



The tubers are eaten after much cooking. 



10. Amophophallus, Blume. 



Tuberous herbs, .flowering before lea6ng. L. ternately 

 compound with the segments simple or forked, pinnatisect. 

 Limb of spathe various, marcescent. Spadix with a large 

 but not elongate appendage. M. and F. contiguous 

 without an intermediate space or neuters. 



I. A- eampanulatus, Blume. 01, K., £., S. 



A very stout herb with the leaf 1-3 ft. broad and petiole 

 about as loner, rarely leaves two. Lateral segments usually 

 bifurcate with oblong leaflets 4-8''. Petiole mottled dark 

 and light green very stout and rough with small tubercles. 

 Peduncle very short, elongating in frnit. Spathe broad open 

 campanulate 6" across with sinuate and crenulate margin, 

 appendage short thick sinuous, purple. 



Usually near villages and often cultivated, doubtfully wild. 



The large hemispherical or depressed globose bulbilliferous tuber is 



2. A. bulbifer, Blume. 



Similar but leaf not usually so broad and leaflets obovate 

 or lanceolate. Petiole as long, green and pink mottled with 

 black, not rough. Peduncle long with erect pinkish spathe 

 with an ovate cymbiform obtuse limb. Appendage 3-4" 

 long. 



Common in the forests. Fls. May. L. appear June. 



Tho leaf usually bears a large bulbil at the forks.by which it is easily 

 recognized. 



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