AmorPHoPpHALLtus.] AROIDEZ. 299 
‘a slender barren appendage as long as the spathe. Male and fem. 
inflorescences short and widely distant, dense-flowered and with a 
few large clavate neuters close above the fem. flowers. Mae 
flowers: Anthers sessile, subcompressed, 4-lobed, contiguous 
opposite, obovate-oblong, opening by terminal pores; connective 
prominent. Frm. flowers: Ovary oblong, 1-celled, rounded at 
the apex; ovules 1-2, erect, basal; style very short or none. 
Fruit of obpyramidal 1-seeded substipitate berries. Seed globose, 
with an obconic strophiole; albumen copious; embryo axile.— 
Species about 8, in trop. and subtrop. Asia and in Trop. Africa, 
S. guttatum, Schott; F. B. I. vi, 508; Watt BE. D.; Collett Fi. 
Siml. 542 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1109 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 824. Arum 
sessiliflorum, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii, 507.—Vern. Dhey Rohilkhand, 
Nim-Kerowly (Fatehghar). 
Tuber large. Leaf 6-12in broad; segments 7-15, variable, 2-15 in. 
long by 1-3 in. broad, elliptic; acuminate, deep-green ; midrib and 
veins impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole stout often 
spotted. Peduncle short stout. Spathe 12-28 in.; tube ovoid or 
sub-globose ; limb linear-lanceolate, thick, green or yellowish, usually 
with dark purple spots; margins usually purple and undulate. 
Spadia about as long as the spathe, with an appendage 2-8 in. long. 
Male inflor. $ in. long, about 3 in. above the fem. inflor. Anthers 
densely packed. Fem. inflor. $ in. long. Neuter flowers spreading, 
close above the females. 
Dehra Dun (Edgeworth); Fatehgarh (T. Hardwicke); Bundelkhand 
(Burkill). Flowers during the hot weather, very feetid. DrsTrrp. 
Punjab Plain and up to 5,000 ft. on the Himalaya and eastwards to 
Nepal; also in Bengal and in the Konkan and Deccan. 
5. AMORPHOPHALLUS, Blume; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 513. 
Tuberous herbs. Leaves appearing after the flowers, solitary, 
3-partite, segments pinnatisect. Spathe with an open or convolute 
funnel-shaped or campanulate limb. Spadix exserted or included ; 
appendage large, short or long. Inflorescence cylindric, dense- 
flowered, males and females contiguous, neuters none. MALE 
flowers. Stamens 2-4, anthers sessile, cells oblong, pores apical. 
Fem. flowers. Ovaries globose, 1-4-celled, style, short or long, 
stigma entire or 2-4-lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, subbasal, 
