1110 BENGAL PLANTS. [Amorphophallus. 
green spathe pale yellow within and a pale brown appendage ; its 
petiole is not warted 
2305. AMORPHOPHALLUS BULBIFER Bl.; F. B. I. vi. 515; E. D. 
A m bulbiferum F. I. ili. 5 
Chota nee N. Bengal, Duars; C. eee E. Bengal. 
A herb, with depressed, globose tuber. Beng. Am la- 
ela, 
1003. Plesmonium Schott. 
Tuberous herbs; leaves (not appearing on tubers that are in 
flower) solitary, 3-partite ; segments pinnatisect. lowers monc- 
cious ; spathe with an open, funnel-shaped limb ; spadiz included ; 
appendage 0 or very small; inflorescence cylindric, rather lax- 
flowered ; males and females distant, with large, obovoid, pearl-like 
or turbinate neuters interposed, and, when a short appendage 
—— with small, slender neuters scattered over it. ¢ Stamens 
anthers sessile; cells oblong ; sh apical confluent. # 
Ovaries globose, 1-3-ce ovules each cell solitary, sub- 
asilar, anatropous ; es seit: f dine 2-3-lobed. Fruit of 
dhiitewe red, ovoid berries. Seeds without albumen; embryo 
macropodou 
. PLESMONIUM MARGARITIFERUM Schott; F. B. I. vi. 518. 
iif . iii, 512. 
Chota Nagpur; C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A herb; tubers very white, usually warted. 
1004. Alocasia Schott. 
Herbs, usually tall and coarse ; ey tuberous or forming a 
short, stout, suberect or erect caudex; flowers and leaves 
coetaneous ; leaves with stout arene scutes below ; lamina 
ovate-cordate, often distinctly peltate. Flowers monccious ; 
spathe on a stout, axillary peduncle, its tube thick, more or less 
eshy, accrescent, persistent, the mouth constricted ; limb erect, 
neuters ; cylindric or subulate. ¢ Stamens 3-8, con- 
nate in obpyramidal column, with angular, flattened apex; 
anthers poets -oblong; dehiscence apical, porous. ¢ Ovary 
ovoid or oblong, 1-locular or partially 3-4-locular sions’ ovules 
few, orthotropous, erect, basilar; style long, short, or 0; § 
