CoLocasla. | AROIDE. 301 
neuters scattered over the appendage (when present). MALE 
flowers: Stamens 2-4, anthers sessile ; cells oblong; pores apical, 
confluent. Frm. flowers: Ovaries globose, 1-3-celled, style 
short, stigma 2-3-lobed; ovules solitary in each cell, subbasilar, 
anatropous. Fruit of red ovoid berries in clusters. Seeds exal- 
buminous, embryo macropodous. 
P. margaritiferum, Schott Syn. Aroid. 34; F. B. I. vi, 518; 
Prain Beng. Pl. 1110. Arum margaritifer, Roxb. Fl. Ind. wi, 
§12.—Vern. Kharhar (N. Oudh). 
Tubers up to 6 in. in diam., white and covered with warts. Leaves 
14 ft. in diam. ; leaflets few, 4-6 in. long, linear, acuminate ; petiole 
14-2 ft., green. Peduncle 12-18 in., stout, pale-green streaked with 
dark-green. Spathe 5-6 in. long by 4 in. broad, erect, broadly ovate, 
obtuse, concave, loosely convolute below the middle, pale yellowish 
green flushed with pink within, dark-purple at the base. Spadix 
stout, stipitate, obtuse, as long as the spathe. Male inflor. occupy- 
ing the largest portion of spadix. Anthers very short pores con- 
fluent. Neuter flowers solid, obovate, smooth pearly-white, occupy 
ing about } of spadix between the anthers and the ovaries. Fem. 
fls. : Ovaries 2-3-celled, with one ovule in each ; stigmas large, round. 
Dehra Dun (Mackinnon); Siwalik range (Lowrie); Rohilkhand 
(Duthie) and eastwards through N. Oudh to Balrampur (Duthie and 
Burkill); also in Bundelkhand (Duthie). Distrip.: Bengal at 
Dacea (C. B. Clarke); recorded also by Prain as occurring at Chota 
Nagpur and in C. and E. Bengal. Roxburgh mentions it under his 
Arum margaritifer (in FJ. Ind. iii, 512) as a native of Hindustan, 
whence it was introduced into the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 
7. COLOCASIA, Linn.; Fi. Brit. Ind. vi, 523. 
Herbs, usually tall and coarse, tuberous or with a stout short 
‘ caudex; leaves and flowers appearing simultaneously. Leaves 
peltate, ovate-cordate ; petioles stout, sheathing below. lowers 
moneecious. Spathe on a stout axillary peduncle; tube thick, 
accrescent, persistent, the mouth constricted ; limb erect, decidu- 
.ous. Spadix shorter than the spathe, stout or slender; male 
and fem. inflorescence with usually interposed flat neuters, append- 
age cylindric or subulate. MAte flowers. Stamens 3-8, connate 
in an obpyramidal] column with an angular flattened apex ; anthers 
linear-oblong, dehiscing by terminal pores. Frm. flowers, Ovary 
