362 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



about as long, erect, spirally twisted to a fine point, spotted 

 with dark purple, capsule conical, 5-celled. 



Banks of streams and other wet places, common (.D.). 



2. LAGENANDRA. 



* L. toxicaria. A marsh plant 3 feet high, leaves long- 

 petioled oblong, with long sheath, spathe slightly twisted, 

 carpels free. Vatsandb. 



8. Konkan and Belganm Collectorate, rare ; it is a deadly 

 poison (D.). 



3. PlSTIA. 



P. stratiotes. Leaves thick obovate, tapering to the base, 

 the margins waved, the nerves spreading like a fan, but con- 

 verging within the margin, spathe white, waved on the margin. 

 Gondali, prasni, shedvel. 



In tanks. Throughout India (#.). 



" A good deal like the common Endive. It has a peculiar muriatic 

 smell, and is said to be injurious to the water. Common throughout 

 the Konkans" (.) 



4. ARIS-ZEMA. 



1. A. tortuomm (A. curvatum, D.). About 18 inches high, 

 all smooth and greenish-yellow, leaves of 7 or more lan- 

 ceolate leaflets joined at the base ; flower stem arising from the 

 leaf-sheath, spadix slender, curved outwards and then back 

 over the spathe, which is much shorter. 



Dapoli. No habitat in D., and not given in 0. 

 Appendage of the spadix long, like a rat's tail. Very common and 

 varying in many points (H.). 



2. A. Murrayi. Leaves peltate, palmate with lanceolate 

 segments, spathe hooded, pointed, white tinged with purple, 

 spadix scarcely longer than the tube of the spathe, nearly 

 black. Sarpd chd Mndd. The snake lily of Mahableshwar. 



Konkans and Ghauts. Hills S.W. of Surat (#.). 



* A. Leschenaultii (A. erubescens, D.), leaves peltate, with 10 to 

 12 linear lanceolate segments, spadix club-shaped, shorter than the 

 pointed spathe. Between Earn Ghaut and Belgaum (!>.) 



The above is D.'s description, and as //. identifies D.'s plant 

 doubtfully, it is better to give H.'s description separately. " Leaf 

 solitary, petiole usually mottled and branded with red and brown, 

 spathe green with broad dark-purple bands." W. Ghauts. 



* A. neglecium. Monoecious, leaflets 4 to 7, elliptic, appendage 

 twice as long as the spathe, remarkably like that of A. tortuosum. W. 

 Ghauts (H.), but not in D. or G. 



