364 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



6. SYNANTHERIAS. 



S. sylvatica (Amorpliophallus s., D.). Scape two or three 

 feet high, smooth, light with dark spots, petiole long, winged, 

 with 3 or more leaflets radiating from the top, each of 2 or 

 more lanceolate segments ; spathe much shorter than the 

 spadix, which is dark and tapering. Luth, vajar mutli, 

 ujomuth. 



Dapoli. S. Konkan, common (D.). Indian peninsula (H.}. 



7. ARIOPSIS. 



A. peltata. Small and pretty, all smooth, with one round 

 peltate leaf, petiole 6 inches long, scape 2 inches high, hidden 

 by the leaf, spathe hooded, pale buff, spadix shorter, club- 

 shaped, capsules aggregated, pointed. 



Dapoli. Common in the Konkan (D.). S". has spathe violet, with 

 green dorsal ridge, paler within. 



8. REMUSATIA. 



R. vivipara. Growing in clefts of trees, sending up several 

 stalks covered with minute scaly bulbs, leaves long-petioled, 

 smooth, large, with prominent whitish veins, cordate, pointed ; 

 spathe with green tube and yellow limb ; tubers pink, 

 Hukhcilu. 



Sawarda, Kutnagherry Colleotorate. Ghaut jungles; it rarely 

 flowers (2).). Both Konkans (.). 



9. COLOCASIA. 



C. antiquorum, leaves large ovate sagittate, spathe pale 

 yellow with green base, spadix shorter. Alu. 



Everywhere in the S. Konkan at the beginning of the rains. 

 Throughout the hotter parts of India, wild or cultivated (H.). Not 

 in D. It is certainly, I think, Q.'s No. 1622, and not, as H. makes it, 

 his No. 1610. 



Alocasia like the last in all outward respects. *A. macrorhiza, 

 leaves broad ovate sagittate, peduncles short, spathe hooded, spadix 

 about the same length, with long appendage ; berries size of a cherry. 

 Not in D. or G. apparently. Tropical and subtropical India, wild or 

 cultivated (H.) : he has stem 6 to 16 feet, spathe 6 to 10 inches. 



10. KHAPHIDOPHORA. 



E. pertusa (Scindapsus p., D.). A large climber, leaves very 

 large, pinnatifid on one side and with large holes on the other, 

 spathe shortly peduncled, yellow, spadix obtuse. Ganesh- 

 kand. 



