512 CLXVI. AROIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Typhonium. 



Cat. n. 8931. Arum cuspidatum, Blume Gat. Sort. Buitenz. 101. A. 

 flagelliforme, Lodd. Bot. Cab.i. 396; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 502; Wight Ic. 

 t. 791 ; Griff. Itin. Notes, 13, No. 193; Griff. Notul. iii. 144 (flagellif erum) . 

 A. angulatum, Griff'. Notul. iii. 143. Rheede Hort. Hal. ii. t. 20. 



LOWER BENGAL, the MALAYAN PENINSULA and BURMA. DISTEIB. Malay Islds. 



Tuber subglobose. Leaves 17 in., sometimes almost 3-partite and 6 in. across 

 the linear or oblong lobes, at others quite simple with a rounded or cordate base. 

 Petiole 6-12 in. Peduncle slender, long or short. Spathe 4-8 in., lurid red, papillose 

 within. Appendage as long as the spathe or a little longer. 



10. T. gracile, Schott Aroid. i. 12; Prodr. 108 ; leaves pedately 3-5- 

 partite, segments elliptic-oblong acuminate lateral lobed at the outer base, 

 epathe very long and slender from a lanceolate base, neuters above the 

 fern. infl. filiform recurved or revolute, appendage sessile as long as the 

 Bpathe narrowed from the base to the very slender tip. Engler Arac. 613. 

 Arum gracile, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 505 ; Wight Ic. t. 793 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. 

 PI. 228. ? Arissema gracile, Kunfh Enum. iii. 21. Rheede Hort. Mai. xi. 

 t. 21. 



SILHET, Roxburgh ; KHASIA HILLS, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6000). The PAKJAB ; 

 Jhelum river, AitcMson. 



Tuber globose. Leaves 4-6 in. broad across the segments, which are sessile or 

 petiolulate, and from broadly oval to oblong or lanceolate, acuminate ; petiole 

 6-12 in. ; petiolules sometimes \ in. Peduncle 1-1-j i n - Spathe 6-8 in. 



8. THXSRXOFHONUBX, Blume. 



Characters of Typhonium, but leaves always undivided cordate or sagit- 

 tate, neuters all subulate, anthers didymous and the more numerous 

 ovules basilar and pendulous from the top of the ovarian cell. All 

 Indian. 



* Anthers beaked, opening by slits. Neuters many, all near the 



anthers. 



% 



1. T. crenatum, Blume Rumph. i. 128 ; spathe 4-5 In. snbcylindric 

 margins waved and crenate, anthers shortly beaked, neuters - in. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 196; Schott in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1858) 2; 

 Aroid. i. 15, t. 21; Prodr. 102; Engler Arac. 607 (excl. var. rostra- 

 turn); 2V. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 259. T. Kleinii, Schott in 

 (Estr. Bot. Zeit. 1858 ; I. c. 3 ; Prodr. 103. Typhoninm crenatum, Schott 

 Melet. i. 17. Wall. Oat. 8934. Arum crenatum, Wight in Hook. Bot. 

 Misc. ii. 100 ; Suppl t. 3 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 228, 



The DECCAN, CONG AN and CARNATIC, Heyne, &c. 



Tuber small. Leaves 3-4 in. long and often as broad, orbicular hastate or cor- 

 dately sagittate ; petiole 4-12 in. Spathe membranous, pale yellow-green; base of 

 tube broadly truncate, intruded. Spadix half as long as the spathe ; appendage 

 cylindric, dark-purple. 



2. T. Wigrhtii, Schott in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1858) 3 ; Prodr. 103 ; 

 spathe 4-6 in. linear-oblong acute, anthers long-beaked, lower neuters 

 ^- in. N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 259. T. crenatum, var. 

 rostratum, Engler Arac. 607 (esccl. syn. arum crenatum). Typhonium 

 minutum, Schott ex Wall. Cat. 8932 (not of Blume). 



The CARNATIC, Wight. 



Very near T. crenatum. Leaves sometimes 3 -lobed. Specimens indiffererit. 



