258 



in diameter ; seeds cylindric-oblong, minute, several in each cell, 

 erect from the base. Marshes of the Southern Concan and Belgaum 

 Collectorate, rare. Called " Yutsunab" by the natives ; it is 

 a deadly poison. 



3. ARIS.EMA, Martins. 



1. A MURRAYII, Bot. Mag. t. 4388. Tubers the size of small 

 potatoes ; leaves peltate divided ; segments 5 to 6, ovate-lanceo- 

 late acuminate ; lower part of the spathe green, forming a wide tube ; 

 upper ovate convex, somewhat cucullate, acuminate; spadix subu- 

 late, bent, scarcely longer than the tube of the spathe. Mahablesh- 

 wur; flowers in May, before the leaves. Snake Lily of Anglo- 

 Indians. 



2. ERUBESCENS, Schott. Meletem. i, 17 ; Blume in Rumph. i, 

 93. Leaves peltate divided ; segments 10 to 12, sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate acuminated, entire, remotely veined; spadix club-shaped, 

 rather obtuse, shorter than the acuminated-subfornicate spathe. 

 Syn. Arum erubescens, Wall. PI. As. rar. ii. 30, t. 156. Between 

 Ram Ghaut and Belgaum in the rains. 



3. CUKVATUM, Kunth. Ennm. iii, 20. Stemless ; leaflets 10 to 

 12, lanceolate ; spathe fornicate, half the length of the curved 

 spadix ; roots tuberous ; leaves with very long petioles ; leaflets 

 entire, glabrous. Syn, Arum curvatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 506. 



4. TYPHONIUM, Schott 



1. T BTJLBIFERUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, 113. 5 to 6 

 inches high ; leaves '2, cordate-hastate mucronulate, long-petioled, 

 shining beneath ; petioles 3 times longer than the leaf, striated, 

 bulb-bearing at the apex ; spathe narrow-linear, of a pale rose- 

 colour ; spadix as long as the spathe, filiform, ovule one erect, 

 stalked, fixed to the base of the ovary. Southern Concan ; flowers 

 in June. 



5. TAPINOCARPUS, Dalz. 



1. T INDICUS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 346. Stemless; 

 root small, tuberous, perennial ; leaves long-petioled, cordate-hastate 

 entire ; basal lobes obtuse ; scape long exserted ; spathe convolute 

 at the base, above narrow elongated, acuminate, flat ; spadix cylin- 

 dric above, slender, as long as the spathe. The scape when in fruit 

 is contorted and bent downwards, the fruit resting on the ground. 

 Vingorla ; in the rains. 



