308 MONOCOTYLEDONRAE. 
Ovarium subglobosum vel obovoideum 2 mm. longum, stylo aequi- 
longo instructum. 
India orientalis, prov. Churra (Hook. f. et Thoms.). 
XLI. AMORPHOPHALLUS lume in Batav. Diar. 1825, in 
Decaisne Herb. Timor. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d’hist. nat. 1834. 
III. p. 366, Rumphia T. 139; Endi. Gen. n. 1681 p.236; Kunth 
En. III. 31 em. includit: Candarum Rezchenb. ex Schott. Melet. 
Z. 17. — Amorphophallus Schott Syn. Ar. 37, Gen. Ar. t. 31, 
Prodr. 130. — Brachyspatha Schott Syn. Ar. 35, Gen. Ar. t. 
29, Prodr. 127. — Conophallus Schott Syn. Ar. 34, Gen. Ar. 
t 30, Prodr.191. — Pythion Mart. Reg. Bot. Zeit. 1831 p. 459. 
— Dracontium Forst. Pl. escul. 1. 29. — Proteinophallus Hook. 
fi. in Bot. Mag. 1815 £ 6195. — Ari et Dracunculi spec, 
Auct. 
Flores unisexuales nudi. Flores masculi 3—4-andri: Stamina 
brevia; antherae subsessiles connectivo tenui, thecis obovoideis vel 
oblongis oppositis, vertice poro apicali aperientibus, pollen in far- 
eiminulis emittentibus. Flores feminei 2—4-gyni: Ovarium sub- 
globosum vel obovoideum, 2-—3—4-loeculare; loculis uniovulatis ; 
ovulum anatropum funiculo arreeto in fundo loculamenti affixo 
appensum, micropyle fundum versus spectans. Stylus varius, 
elongatus vel brevis. Stigma capitatum, 3— 4-lobum. Baccae 
distinctae, mono- aut oligospermae. Semina exalbuminosa fundo 
insidentia, epidermide tenui diaphana, testa laevi, solitaria ellip- 
soidea vel bina plano-convexa. Embryo semini conformis, in su- 
perfieie viridulum. 
Herbae tuberosae Indiae orientalis atque Archipelagi indici. 
Planta germinans post cataphylla pauca folia simplicia, inde 
— trisecta proferens. Tuber adultum maximum depresso - globosum, 
vertice excavatum, post cataphylla plura folium solitarium maxi- 
mum, serius cataphylla atque pedunculum longum emittens. Folii 
petiolus laevis vel verrucoso-asperatus crassus, varie maculatus, 
lamina amplissima trisecta, segmentis pinnatifidis vel bipinnatifidis 
vel dichotomis atque partitionibus IL pinnatifidis, segmentis ulti- 
mis plus minusve oblongis acutis. Pedunculus plerumque longus, 
rarius brevis. Spatha late ovata, basi infundibuliformi aut cam- 
panulaeformi-convoluta, haud raro in fundo glanduloso-verrucosa, 
superne hians, limbo hine patente, rarius erecto-fornicato, emar- 
