Sauromatv.mJ] CLXVI. AROIDEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 509 



limb linear -lanceolate, thick, green or yellowish with dark purple spots or blotches, 

 margins usually purple and waved. Spadix as long as the spathe or nearly so ; fern, 

 infl. in. ; neuters in. long, spreading ; male infl. 3 in. above the fern., \ in. long; 

 anthers densely packed ; appendage 2-8 in., cylindric and obtuse, or narrowed from 

 the base to a fine point, green or dark purple. 8. guttatum is confined to North- 

 West India, except Stocks' specimens should prove to be from the Concan, of which 

 there is no evidence. 



6. ARUM, Linn. 



Tuberous herbs. ^Leaves simple. Spathe deciduous or withering, tube 

 convolute; limb cymbiform, erect. Spadix exserted, androgynous, with, 

 subulate suberect neuters between the male and fern, infl., and deflexed 

 ones above the male ; appendage subcylindric. Anthers sessile, pollen 

 vermiform. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma sessile ; ovules many on 2-3 parietal 

 placentas. Berries obovoid, many-seeded. Seeds albuminous, embryo 

 axile. Species about 20, Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



A. Jacquemontii, Blume Rumph. i. 118 ; leaves hastately sagittate 

 or hastate, limb of spathe narrowly lanceolate acuminate or caudate. 

 'Schott Prodr. 99. A. Griffithii, Sehott Syn. i. 15 ; Prodr. 1. c. ; Boiss. 

 Fl Orient, v. 38; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 257. 



N.W. INDIA, Jacquemont. KASHMIR; Gilgit, alt. 6-7000 ft., Giles. DISTEIB. 

 Affghan. 



Tuber as large as a chesnut. Leaves 5-12 in. ; petiole 5-16 in. Peduncle equal- 

 ling or longer than the petiole. Spathe 3-7 in., white^greenish or purplish. Ovaries 

 globose. Berries red. 



7. TYPHONIU1H, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs. Leaves entire, 3-5-lobed or pedatisect. Tube of 

 spathe short, convolute, mouth constricted, persistent ; limb ovate-oblong 

 lanceolate or linear, deciduous. Spadix exserted, male and fern. infl. 

 distant with neuters above the fern, and sometimes below the males ; 

 appendage elongate, smooth. Anthers subsessile. Ovaries 1-celled ; 

 stigma sessile ; ovules 1-2, basal, erect, orthotropous. Berries ovoid, 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds globose, albuminous; embryo axile. Species about 13, 

 tropics of the Old World. 



* Limb of spathe broadly ovate, open, narrowed into a long point. 



1. T. trilobatum, Schott in Wien. Zeitschr. iii. (1829) 72; Aroid. i. 

 12 ; 1. 16 ; Syn. 18 ; Prodr. 108 ; leaves hastately 3-lobed or sub-3-partite, 

 neuters above fern. infl. very many and long filiform curved, appendage 

 stipitate base expanded truncate lobulate intruded. Blume Rumph. i. 132 

 (in part) ; Kunth. Enum. iii. 26 (in part) ; Engler Arac. 614; in Bull. Soc. 

 Tosc. Ort. iv. 301 ; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 261. T. orixense, 

 Schott inWien. Zeitsch. 1. c. ; Wall. Cat. 8829. T. siamense, Engler I. c. 

 615. T. triste, Griff. Notul. iii. 145. Arum trilobatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 965 ; Thw. Enum. 334; Grali. -Cat. Bomb. PL 228. A. orixense, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 503 ; Wight Ic. t. 801 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 442 ; Andr. Bot. Eep. 

 t. 356 ; Bot. Reg. t. 450 ; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 50 (anal.). ? A. pumilum, 

 Lamk. Engc. iii. 8. ? Arisaema pumilum, Blume Rumph. i. 107 ; Kunth 

 I. c. 20 ; Schott Syn. 27 ; Prodr. 59. 



LOWER BENGAL, BUEMA, the EASTERN and WESTEEN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Siarn, Malay Islds. 



