26 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [January , 1914. 



p. 436. India to New Guinea, occurring just within South-wes- 

 tern China, and in Formosa. Linnaeus in 1753 applied the name 

 c< triphylla M to a form of D. pentaphylla : in 1754 he applied it 

 as we use it here. 



Variat : — 



Var. djemona. Planta pubescens. 



Var. reticulata. Planta hispido-pubescens. 



Var molltssima. Planta albo-tomentosa. 



Varietas d^emona in India communis est, necnon in partibus 

 minime pluviosis insulse Javss. Varietas reticulata in peninsula in- 

 sulisque malaicis abundans. Varietas mollissima reperitur in Burma 

 orientali et au3trali, in regno Siamiensi, in insulis malaicis. 



Section 6. Opsophyton. 



52. D. bulbifera, Linn., Sp. Plant., (1753), p. 1035: 

 Lam., Encyc. Meth., iii. (1789), p. 232: Bailey, Queensland 

 Flor., v. (1902), p. 1615: Prain, Bengal Plants, ii. (1903), 

 p. 1066. D. crispata, Roxb., Hort. Beng., (1814), p. 72, name 

 only: and Flor. Ind., iii. (1832), p. 802. D. decemangularis, 

 Ham. ex Wall., Cat. Lith., (1832), no. 5106B. D. heterophylla, 

 Roxb., Hort. Beng., (1814), p. 72, name only : and Flor. Ind., 

 iii. (1832), p. 804. D. japonica, Thunb. in Herb propr., in part: 

 Wall., Cat. Lith., (1832), no. 5107C and 5107D in part. D. 

 oppositi folia, Campbell, Econ. Prod. Chutia Nagpur sent to 

 Col. & Ind. Exhib., (1886), p. 7. ? D. papillaris, Blanco, Flor. 

 Filip., (1837), p. 552. D. pulchella, Roxb., Hort. Beng., (1814), 

 p. 72, name only: and Flor. Ind., iii. (1832), p. 801. D. sativa 9 

 Thunb., Flor. Jap., (1784), p. 191 : Kunth, Enum., v. (1850), 

 p. 340, in part : Benth., Flor. Hongkong., (1861), p. 368; and 

 Flor. Austral., vi. (1873), p. 460: Seemann, Flor. Vitiensis, 

 (1873), p. 626: Hook. £., Flor. Brit. Ind., vi. (1892), p. 295. 

 D. tamnifolia Salisb., Parad. Lond., (1806), t. 17. D. Tunga, 

 Ham. ex Wall., Cat. Lith., (1832), no. 5107D. Helmiabulbi- 

 fera, Kunth, Enum. v. (1850), p. 35. From India to the remo- 

 test parts of the Pacific , ascending the Himalaya to 5000 feet : 

 and in Southern China, in Southern Japan, and in Northern 

 Australia. Introduced into Tropical America and into Africa. 



Variat: — 



Var. vera. Tuber etbulbillre acridse, breves. Folia supra nitentia. 

 Var. Simbha. Prsecedenti similis tubero bulbillisque . Folia longiora, 



infra nitentia. Fl res maris magni. 

 Var. Kacheo. Tuber bulbillceque vix acridse. Tuber magnum, nee 



elongatum, sparsim radicibus indutum. 

 Var. suavior. Prsecedenti similis tubero, Bulbillce admodum 



verrucosa?, subnigraa. 

 Var. birmanica. Varietati suiviori similis ; sed tuber seve, came 



album. 

 Var. sativa. Tuber poene deest. Bulbilhe magnae, fere l?eves, 



viridi-fuscse. Folia magna. 

 Var. elongata. Tuber elongatum 

 Var. deltoidea. Folia triangulari ovata. 



