AROIDE^E 395 



The whole flower is very small, complete or more 

 commonly, unisexual, monoecious, the two sorts being 

 often separated on different parts of the spadix, or on 

 different spadices, and in some cases there are in part 

 of the spadix structures which must be regarded as 

 sterile flowers. 



Other common plants of the AROIDE^E : 



COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM, Schott is grown for the 

 sake of its large tuberous (corn-like) root-stock. 



ALOCASSIA MACRORHIZA, Schott has large leaves- 

 often variegated with pale green and white. 



POTHOS with entire leaves and grooved petiole, 

 PHILODENDRON, with pinnatifid leaves and round 

 petioles, and MONSTERA with leaves both pinnatifid 

 and perforated with large oblong holes, and winged 

 petioles, are three root-climbers very common on trees 

 in Indian gardens. 



ANTHURIUM has scarlet or white spathes. The 

 flowers are all alike, with both stamens and ovary, and 

 a perianth of scales. 



On the hills the best known example of this family 

 is the common white ' Arum ' or Calla-lily * RICHARDIA 

 AFRICANA, K. (or CALLA (ETHIOPICA, L.), (it is, of 

 course, not a Lily at all). The flowers are all naked, 

 as in CALADIUM ; in the upper part of the spadix 

 each consists of two or three stamens only, in the lower 

 of an ovary with three staminodes. 



ARISJEMA LESCHENAULTII, Bl. is a common wild 

 plant, well known for its palmate leaves and brown 

 spathe with nodding top. The plant is unisexual (or the 

 flowers dioecious), the spadix containing either staminate 

 or ovary flowers. The top of the spadix is sterile 



