8. AK1S.EMA.] 132. ARACEJE. 



slender appendage which is decurved and then again iipcurved and 

 exseited, slender and quite smooth. 



On the Raiiclii plateau and ghats, Horhap forest, etc.! Palamaii, Ramandag 

 Forest! Parasuath, C/arA-^ ! Fl. May- June. Fr. Nov. Withering away in Dec. 



Tuher depressed globose 2-3" diam. Leaflets usually 9 in our plant, narrowed 

 into sessile or petiolulate base, sec. n. numerous, oblique, uniting in an intra- 

 DQarginal nerve. Peduncle embraced by the leaf sheaths for a considerable 

 distance. When monoecions tlie stamens occupj^ the upper two-thirds of the 

 inflorescence without Intermediate neuters, synandria stipitate of 3-J. anthers. 

 Fruiting head about 2" long, ovoid with oblong red berries '4" long, each with 3-5 

 gre.y subglobose angular seeds "lo" diam, with short stout obconic base. 

 Ap])arently the same plant ascends to 8000 ft. in the Himalayas. 



9. THERIOPHONUM, Blume. 



Tuberous herbs with cordate or sagittate or hastately 3-lobed 

 leaves. 8pathe scarcely constricted, limb ovate-oblong lanceolate or 

 linear, Spadix included, often very slender, female at or a little 

 above the base, ovaries sometimes very few, 1 -celled, AAith sessile 

 rounded stigma. Ovules orthotropous few, erect basal and also 

 pendulous from the apex of the ovarj'. Neuters above the females 

 <)V not, and beloAv the males, subulate or filiform, Male inflorescence 

 .several times longer than the female with sessile didymous synandria 

 of 2 stamens opening by slits or pores, appendage elongate sometimes 

 very slender smooth at least above, sometimes muricate at the slender 

 base with staminodes or neuters. Berries ovoid. 



I>atex-tubes occur in vascular bundles of stem and jjetioles. 



1. T. minutum, Engl. var. Chattarjeei, Haines ; Inc. T. Zej^lanicum, 

 Kleinii, crenatum and Wightii. 

 \Vhole plant about 8-12" high with hastately or sagittately 3-lobed 

 leaves 3-5" long by 1-5-4" broad, basal lobes lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate. Petioles 4-7" long. Peduncle -5-1". Spathe linear or 

 linear-lanceolate 3" by -5", erect finely acuminate, Spadix 2-2-5", 

 slender. Ovaries in a single whorl at the base, oblong, -08" long with 

 3-4 minute ovules top and bottom, Male inflorescence -5" long 

 with few filiform neuters at its base -15--2" long, anthers minute 

 didjanous, connective Avith a few minute papillae at apex. Appendage 

 about 1-5" slender, Avith a slender stipes Avhich is muricate Avith 

 staminodes or neuters. 



Angul, Chatf(irjee\ Fl. Aug. 



Two specimens were sent to me b,y Mr. li. K. Cltaftcwjee who stated that it was 

 common. Tho.sebotanists who would sepai'ate^«'^/rt)//cHw, X. E. Br .Wightii, Schott, 

 etc., would also have to make this a separate specie^: differing from either of liugler'n 

 .sections [Eutheriophorum and Cali/ptrocoryHe) but uniting them both, the anther- 

 connective not being at all produced, but the rudimentary flowers being much 

 closer to the male inflorescence than to the female. Th. Wightii, Schott (regarded 

 by me as merely another variety of one widely variable species) with large spathes 

 and very long api)endaged anthers has been collected in Raipur close to our area. 

 Eiigter himself .says of this species " verisimiliter etiam haec species, cujus 

 specimina pauca tantum vidi, cum i)riore conjugenda eiit, si specimina numerosa 

 comparari possunt." Of the species enumerated b.A" Engler our plant comes 

 clcsest to Th. zeylaniam, some of Avhich (omitting the anther appendage) exactly 

 match it. 



10. TYPHONIUM, Schott. 

 Herbs Avith usually depressed globose tubers and entire sagittate 

 or 3-5-lobed or pedately divided leaves. .Si^athe appearing with the 



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