302 AROIDEH. [ REMUSATIA. 
ovoid, 1-celled, stigma sessile, discoid. Fruit of small obconic or 
oblong berries. Seeds oblong, sulcate, albumen copious, embryo 
axile.— 
Leaves with a bronze margin; spathe dark 
vellow i ‘ : 1. c. nympheifolia. 
Leaves not bronze margined : : . 2. e. Antiquorum. 
1. C. nympheifolia, Kunth Enum. wi, 37; F. B. I. vi, 523 (in 
part); Watt Z. D. and in Comm. Prod. Ind. 398; Prain Beng, 
Pl. 1112. Arum nympheeifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 495; DC. 
L’Orig. Pl. Cult. 58.—Vern. Sar Kachhu (Beng.). 
2. C. Antiquorum, Schott.; F. B. I. vi, 523 (in part); Watt E, 
D. and in Comm. Prod, of India, p. 398 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1112; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 829; DC. L’Orig. Pl. Cult. 58 ; Duthie and 
Fuller Field and Gard. Crops, part iii, page 8, plate 75; Royle Til. 
Him. 406; Wight Ic. t. 786; Arum Colocasia, Linn. ; Roxb, Fl. 
Ind. iwi, 494.—Vern. Ghuian, gagli, Kachdlu. 
A tall coarse herb, tuberous or with a short stout caudex. Leaves 
large, ovate, with a broad triangular basal sinus. Spathe 8-18 in. 
long, caudate-acuminate, erect, pale-yellow. Roxburgh distin- 
guishes 3 varieties besides C. nympheifolia. They are 1, a dark 
one from wet places, in which the roots never swell, but send out 
many suckers and the leaves and petioles are more or less purple, 
it is much eaten; 2, one which grows on dry ground with dark 
purple or bluish clouds; 3, one like the last but all green. Of nym- 
pheifolia which he describes as having repand leaves. He says 
that he doubts if it is anything but a large aquatic state abundantly 
wild on borders of lakes, with the subterraneous stem often as long 
and thick as a man’s arm, reddish petioles peduncles and leaves, 
narrower leaves, and a shorter appendage; all the parts are eaten 
(Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, l. c. 523.) Under the name of Taro or Tania this 
plant, Colocasia Antiquorum is well-known in most tropical countries, 
and is much valued for its starchy tuberous rhizomes. It is best 
known in the United Provinces as Ghuiyan, and is much grown on 
the plains of the United Provinces, and up to 6,000 ft. on the outer 
Himalayan ranges. 
8. REMUSATIA, Schott; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 521. 
Herbs with tuberous rhizomes, emitting Jong radical slender 
shoots clothed with small bulbils. Leaf solitary, appearing after 
