Plants of the Punjab. 



516 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves, 

 % Petals united. 



Amphicome Emodi, 



Arissema utile, 



ARACEiEj or 



Aroide^. 



F. B. I. vi. 499. 



Himalaya, 



. ,500-9,000 ft. 



Kashmir. 



Arisaema 

 intermedium, 



Arace^ or 



AROIDEiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 500. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra, 

 Mahasu (Collett), 



Arisaema 

 Wallichianum, 



ARACEiE or 



Aroideje. 



J. B. I. vi. 500. 



Himalaya, 



cast of the Sutlej, 



«-8,000'ft. 



Mashobra, Mahasu 



(Collett). 



Jaku, Baghi, 



Nathiagali (Douie). 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 



Petals none. 



small to medium size, perennial, root tuberous, 3-5 

 in. diam., depressed above ; leaf solitary, stalk 8-10 in., 

 thick, smooth, green, base sheathing, digitately compound, 

 leaflets 3, sessile, oblong-ovate or ovate with a broad tip, 

 margins wavy, golden, round-toothed ; flowers small, one 

 sexual, crowded on a fleshy, erect rod or spadix, terminat- 

 ing the stemmoreorless enclosed in a sheath, or spathej 

 lower portion of spathe (tube) folded round the spadix, 

 upper portion of spathe (limb) open, spreading, male 

 flowers scattered, consisting of a shortly stalked head of 

 3 anthers, female flowers crowded, consisting of an one- 

 celled ovary, spathe-hmb 4 in. broad, red-brown or purplish, 

 netted, oblong or ovate with a broad end, broadly notched 

 or 2-lobed with a short purple tail that bends round the 

 long thread-like tail of the spadix, lobes of limb forming 

 2 dull violet flaps which overhang the tube, spadix stout, 

 tail purple, suddenly narrowed from a broad disc-shaped 

 lobed base into the twisted thread-like extremity, fruiting 

 spike naked ; berries red, usually one-seeded, 



rootstock oblique or shortly creeping and rooting, 

 loiif usually solitary, sometimes two, leaflets ovate, long- 

 pointed, lateral oblique, middle one longest, spathe green, 

 striped with purple and white, limb gradually narrowed 

 into a long point, spadix tail green, base only purple, male 

 and female flowers on different plants ; otherwise like the 

 last species. 



root tuberous, depressed, leaf solitary, leaflets broadly 

 ovate, shortly-pointed, middle one circular, spathe-tube 

 ribbed, dark green on a pale ground, limb broad, abruptly 

 contracted in a short tail-Uke tip, centre dark purple- 

 striped, margins chequered with pale green veins, ex- 

 tremity of spadix purple ; otherwise like the last species. 



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