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The following also belong to this gronp : 



Sauromatum. Tuberous herbs, leafing after flowering, leaf 

 solitary, spadix sessile, very long ; male and female flowers widely 

 distant, with a few large neuters close above the females. * S. 

 guttatum, leaves of 7 to 15 variable lobes, peduncle of spathe 

 very stout, green or spotted, spathe one to two feet long, green or 

 yellowish, with purple spots, spadix as long or nearly so, appendage 

 2 to 8 incites, green or dark purple. Attributed to the Konkan by 

 H., but doubtfully. 



Typhonium. Spadix exserted, inflorescence as in the last, appendage 

 long, smooth. * T. trilobatum, leaves 3-lobed, petiole up to a foot, 

 spathe red-purple inside, appendage bright red. Not in D., but in 

 G. as Arum trilobatum. Widely spread (H.). * T. bulbiferum , leaves 

 triangular, sagittate or cordate, spathe very slender, pale rose- 

 colour, spadix as long, slender, yellow. The long petiole has usually 

 a small bulb or tuber at the top. S. Konkan; Stocks (H.). Not in 

 D. or a. 



Therioplianum, like the last, but leaves undivided, cordate or 

 arrow-shaped. * T. crenatum, spathe pale yellow-green, the margins 

 waved and crenate, spadix half as long, appendage dark purple. 

 Konkan (Q-. and H.). 



5. AMORPHOPHALLUS. 



* 1. A. campanulatus. Tuber very large, leaves radical 

 few thrice bifid, segments oblique oblong, spathe large, bell- 

 shaped, spadix very stout, berries obovoid. 



The cultivated suran, wild on the banks of streams in S. Konkan 

 (D.). H. makes it wild throughout the plains of India. " The large 

 dark-coloured flowers of this species have a very curious appearance " 

 (G.). " The wild kind is jangli suran, and, when dried, madanmast " 

 (Zh/mocfc). 



* A. commutatus, spathe long-peduncled, spadix about as long, 

 appendage very long, tuber and leaf unknown. The Konkan, 

 Stocks (H.). 



* A. bulbifer, spathe long-peduncled, spadix very stout and append- 

 age not so long as in the last, leaves bearing bulbils at the base, 

 forks and nerves above ; leaflets obovate or lanceolate, petiole 3 or 4 

 feet long, peduncle 8 to 10 inches, green and pink, streaked with 

 green or black. The Konkan (G.). Not in D. 



Thomsonia has the characters of Amorpliophallus, but the appendage 

 is covered with tubercles at the top. *T. nepalensis, leaf once or 

 twice ternate, leaflets oblong lanceolate, petiole long and stout, 

 spathe boat-shaped, spadix very stout, greenish-brown or yellow. 

 This is not in D. or G., nor ascribed by H. to W. India, but it seems 

 to be the poisonous plant described by Dr. Kirtikar in Journal 

 B. N. H. S. vol. 7, under the name of Pythonium Wallichii, and said by 

 him to be very common in Tanna jungles. Dr. Dymock gives it the 

 name Shevale, which he says is applied to Arum flowers generally. 



