132. ARACE.E. [11. Kemusatia. 



leaves, with short convolute persistent tube and constricted between 

 the tube and the deciduous ovate-oblong lanceolate or linear limb. 

 tSpadix exserted, male and female infl. distant with neuters above the 

 female and sometimes below the male, appendage elongate muricate 

 or smooth. Synandria of 1-2 subsessile anthers, opening by pores 

 or short slits. Ovaries 1 -celled formed of one carpel, stigma sessile, 

 placenta basal with 1-2 erect orthotropous ovules. Berries ovoid. 

 Seeds 1-2, globose, albuminous, with axile embryo. 



Latex-tiibes occur iu the vascular bundles of stem and petioles. 



Some species of Tyjihoniiim very closely resemble species of Theroplionium iu 

 o-eueral appearance. 



1. T. trilobatum, Schott. 8yn. T. orixense, Roxb. ? (see below). 



Height 12-20" with a subglobose tuber and hastately 3-lobed or 

 sub-3-partite leaves 5-8" long and as broad with ovate acute lobes. 

 Spathe 3-8" long, green or inside red-purple with broadly ovate open 

 limb narrowed to a long point. Neuter flowers above the female 

 many long filiform and curved, appendage bright red stipitate and 

 muricate, base expanded and intruded. Peduncle 1-4". 

 Singbhuni, in jungles, common ! Fl. April-May and Aug-.-Sept, 

 Corin white •/" diam. Leaves with the basal lobes sometimes again lobed or 

 auricled making a double sinus at the base and whole blade sometimes broader 

 than long, 4-" by 5*5" to 8" by 10", lobes broadly ovate. Spathe with objectionable 

 odour, mostly 4'5-6" long (including tube -8-1" long), slenderly acuminate, tip 

 straight or twisted, striate. Neuters white, '7" long, much curved, twisted, 

 clustered at base, anthers of 2-4 whitish cells with rose-coloured pollen (Clarke), 

 barren portion above stamens smooth pinkish and club of appendix dark purj^le. 

 Fruiting spadix 1'5" ovoid. 



Clarke says that T. orixense is distinct, the neuters have long curling thread-like 

 white terminations while in trilobatum they are short, oblong, yellow recurved 

 with hardlj^ visible white points. He says also that the leaves dii¥er in venation 

 and spathes also differ. As he kuew both in the field and Roxhurgh also 

 discriminated them he is probably correct. 



11. REMUSATIA, Schott. 



Herbs with a depressed hemispheric bulb -like tuber and erect 

 shoot: from the side of the tuber or corm develops stolon-like bulbi- 

 ferous shoots with peculiar small crinite bulbils. Leaves peltate, 

 ovate and cordate, solitary in our species. Spathe with an elongate 

 accrescent tube and a broad erect or refracted yellow deciduous limb. 

 Spadix very short, sessile, male and female inflor. separated by neuters, 

 appendage 0. Male synandria densely packed of 2-3 stamens with 

 oblong cells opening by a pore, flat-topped, mixed with neuters. 

 Fem. inflor. short, ovaries with 2-4 parietal placentae and almost 

 orthotropous ovules, stigma sessile, disciform. Berries obovoid, small. 

 Seeds albuminous, embryo axile. 

 Branched latex-tiibes occur in stems and petioles. 



1. R. vivipara, Sclwtt. 



C'orm about 1" diam. Leaf solitary (though on young plants from 

 bulbils a succession of leaves arise the same season), 8" by 5" to 17" by 

 12", dark smooth shining green, ovate acuminate, not very deeply 

 cordate, sinus not extending half-way to petiole, nerves from mid-rib 

 4—5 each side and from the basal costai 2-3. Bulbiferous shoots at 



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