1108 BENGAL PLANTS. [Typhoniun. 
2299. TypHonrum Scuottn Prain. 
C. Bengal, with the preceding, of which it may prove to 
be a variet 
A tuberous herb, local, but plentiful where it occurs. 
2300. TyPHONIUM INOPINATUM Prain. 
sone intro 
x tuber ate a -— e, as now appears, of Upper 
Burma. 
Plentiful bag cn spreading in thickets in and about the 
oyal Botanic Gard is was never in cultivation; how it 
may have pees RE is unknown, but the introduction 
seni seem to have been recent, 
2301. TypHontum Roxsureum Schott. 7. Mottleyanum F. B.I. 
vi. 510. Arum trilobatum F. I. iii. 505. 
C. Bengal, introduced. 
A tuberous herb ; native of Malaya. 
Accidentally introduced into the Royal Botanic Gardens a cen- 
ury ago, where it occurs along with the three preceding species, 
but more locally and rarely than they. Unlike the others, this 
seems not yet to have spread beyond the limits of these gardens. 
2802. TypHontum cuspmpatum Bl; F. B. I. vi. 511. Arum 
ss eh hale Fi. i. 
engal; E. Bengal, in open, grassy places. 
‘ regia herb. 
More widely spread but at the same time less plentiful than any 
of the four preceding specie 
1001. Sauromatum Schott. 
Tuberous herbs; flowers preceding the leaves; leaf solitary, 
a long-petioled. Flowers monccious; spathe shortly 
peduncled, its tube cylindric, short, the margins connate below ; 
limb very mare narrow, open, reflexed ; cae sessile, very long, 
with a slender, barren acca as long as the spathe; male and 
female inflorescences short, widely distant, dense-flowered, with @ 
few large, clavate neuters close above the females. ¢ Amnthers 
sessile, subcompressed, 4-lobed; cells contiguous, opposite: 
obovate-oblong, opening by terminal pores; connective at length 
promin: ry oblong, 1-celled, rounded at the apex + 
ovules 1-2, erect, bead: style very short or 0. Fruit of obpyra- 
