1106 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cryptocoryne. 
2294, CRYPTOCORYNE RETROSPIRALIS en F. B. I. vi. 493. 
Ambrosinia retrospiralis F. I. iii 
In most of the provinces. 
A narrow-leaved, usually submerged herb. 
2295. CRYPTOCORYNE SPIRALIS Fis ch.; F. B. I. vi. 494. Ambro- 
la spiralis i. 492 
re - the provinces. 
mall, grass-like herb, on the edges of ponds and 
aa submerged during the rains only. 
999. Ariszeema Mart. 
Tuberous herbs, with leaves and flowers contemporaneous ; 
leaves 1-8, trisect or pedate or verticillately 5- or more-sect. 
Flowers 1-sexual, diecious, rarely monecious. Spathe deciduous, 
tube convolute ; limb often acuminate or tailed, usually ineurved ; 
spadiz included or exserted, always with a barren appendage, 
which is often long and filiform. 3 Flowers numerous, stipitate ; 
anthers 2-5, oblong or subglobose ; cells distinct or confluent ; 
sanactia by pores or c s. ¢ Flowers densely crowded; 
ovary ovoid, oblong, or subglobose, 1-celled; ovules 2 or more, 
basilar, orthotropous; style short or 0; stigma discoid. -Neuwters 
0, or few subulate, above the males or the females or on the 
appendage. Fruits of 1- or few-seeded berries. Seeds ovoid or 
globose ; testa rather thick; albumen oe aes axi 
2296. ARISHMA roustioeini Schott; F. _B. I. vi. 502; E. D. 
A. ae: Arum curvatum F. t: aon 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
A 2-3-foliate ats en pedatisect. 
1000. Typhonium Schott. 
Tuberous herbs ; leaves entire, 3—5-lobed or pedatisect. Flowers 
monecious; tube of spathe short, convolute, with a con — 
mouth, persistent; limb ovate-oblong, lanceolate or linear, 
ciduous ; spadix exserted, with a long, smooth, barren appendage 
male and female inflorescences remote, with neuters above the 
females, and sometimes also below the males. ¢ Stamens 1-3 ; 
anthers subsessile; cells contiguous, opening by pores or chinks ; 
pollen globose. ¢ Carpels forming an ovoid or gee -ovoid, 
Sr ovary; placenta basilar; ovules 1-2, erect; stigma — 
Fruit of ovoid, 1-2-seeded berries. Seeds globose; album 
ra, embryo axial. 
