508 CLXVI. AEOiDEJ!. (J, D. Hooker.) [Ariscema. 



The CONCAN; in the Ghats, Gibson, fyc. 



Tuber large. Leaf solitary, maturing after the flowering ; petiole 10-14 *n. and 

 subeqnal p duncle greenish mottled with red-brown ; leaflets 46 in. Spathe 3-5 in., 

 tube green striated, f 1 in. diam. ; limb rather broader, margins not recurved, 

 except round the mouth of the tube. Spadix narrowed from the buse upward ; 

 appendage 1-1 i n - sessile; male fl. scattered, with a few neuters above them. 



38. A. caudatum, Engler Monog. Arac. 559 ; leaflets 7 cuneately 

 elliptic acuminate with long capillary tips, tube of spathe elongate 

 cylindric, limb incurved ovate-lanceolate rather abruptly narrowed into a 

 very long subulate tail, margins below- recurved, appendage rather short 

 not thickened below included. 



The CONCAN, Stocks (Ic. in Herb. Eew). 



Tuber depressed globose. Leaf solitary j petiole stout, and peduncle irro- 

 rately barred and streaked ; leaflets petiolulate, 5 by 2 in. exclusive of the 

 thread-like tips which are 1-3 in. long. Peduncle very short. Spathe 6 in., ex- 

 clusive of the 3 in. caudate tip. Spadix androgynous ; appendage shorter than the 

 flowering portion, tip rounded. Described from a drawing by Stocks ; I have seen 

 no specimen. 



UNRECOGNIZED SPECIES. 



A ? PENTAPHYLLUM, Schott Meletem. i. 17 j - Syn. 28 ; Prodr. 59 ; Runth 

 Enum. iii. 20 ; Blume Rumph. i. 109 j JEngler Arac. 560. Arum pentaphylluin, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 964. Ind. Or.; China. 



A? HEPTAPHYLLUM, Blume Humphia i. 109; Kunth Enum. iii. 20. Schott 

 Syn. 31 ; Prodr. 59 ; Engler Arac. 560. Ind. Or. 



5. SAUROBXATUIK, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs, leafing after flowering. Leaf solitary, pedatiportite. 

 Spathe shortly peduncled, tube cylindric short, margins connate below ; 

 limb very long, reflexed, narrow, open. Spadix sessile, very long ; male 

 and fern. infl. widely distant, short, dense fld., with a few large clavate 

 scattered neuters close above the fern. ; appendage slender, as long 

 as the spathe. Anthers subsessile, 4-celled. Ovaries oblong, 1-celled ; 

 etigma sessile ; ovules 1-2, basal, erect. Berries obpyramidal, 1-seeded. 

 Species tropical Asiatic and African. 



S. gruttatum, ScJwtt Meletem. i. 17; Prodr. 71; Blume Rum ph. i. 

 126 ; Engler Arac. 570. S. pedatum, Schott Melet. I. c. ; Gen. t. 11 ; Syn. 

 24 ; Prodr. 70 ; Blume I. c. ; Kunth Enum. iii. 28 ; Engler 1. c. 569 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4465 ; Regel Gartenfl. (1866), 3, t. 495. S. venosum, Schott Prodr. 

 71. S. sessiliflorum, Kunth 1. c. ; Schott I c.', N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xviii. 256. S simlense, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1858), i. 263 ; 

 Prodr. 72 ; N. E. Br. 1. c. ; in Gard. Chron. (1880), ii. 134, 198. S. punctatum, 

 C. Koch in Berlin Wochenschr. i. 263 ; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. I. c. 

 Arum guttatum, Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 10, t. 115. A. pedatum, Willd. 

 Enum. Suppl. 54 ; Link, et Otto Ic. 19, t. 8. A. sessiliflorum, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 507 ; Wight Ic. t. 800. A. venosum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1017. 

 A. clavatum, Desf. Gat. Sort. Par. 385. 



The PANJAB, UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN, and the HIMALAYA, from Nepal to 

 Simla, ascending to 5000 ft. ? The CONCAN, Herb. Stock*. 



Tuber large. Petiole stout, 12-18 in. ; leaf 6-12 in. broad, segments or lobes 

 7-15, very variable, 2-15 by 1-3 in., lobes of young leaves sometimes rounded or the 

 lateral dimidiate-ovate or cordate, when numerous oblong or lanceolate. Peduncle 

 1-2 in., very stout, green or spotted. Spathe 12-28 in., tube ovoid or subglolose ; 



