Se aes oo bah 
1112 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Colocasia. 
1005. Colocasia Linn. 
Herbs, usually tall and coarse, sometimes small and handsome, 
with ain rhizomes or a short, stout caudex; leaves and 
appearing simultaneously; leaves with stout petioles, 
cin: below; lamina peltate, ovate-cordate. Flowers monce- 
cious ; spathe on a stout axillary peduncle ; tube thick, accrescent, 
persistent, with constricted mouth ; limb erect, deciduous ; spadix 
shorter than the spathe, stout or slender; male and female 
inflorescence with usually interposed, flat neuters ; appendage 
cylindric or subulate. 3 Stamens 3-8, connate in an obpyramidal 
column, with angular, flattened apex; anthers linear-oblong ; 
dehiscence apical, porous. ¢ Ovary ovoid, 1-celled ; ovules many, 
on usually 3 parietal placentas, orthotropous; stigma sessile, 
discoid. Frwit of small obconic or oblong berries. Seeds oblong, 
suleate ; albumen copious ; embryo axial 
Leaves with a bronze margin; spathe dark yellow ......... nympheifoliun. 
Leaves not bronze-margined ; spathe pale yellow nitquorum. 
2312. CoLocAsIA NYMPHHIFOLIA Kunth. C. ores (gana F.B.1 
vi. 523 partly. Arum nympheifolium F. I. iii. 495 
es the provinces, wild. 
A stout herb. Beng. Sar-kachhu. 
2313. Gabocet Antiquorum Schott; F. B. I. vi. 523 partly; 
E. D.C. 1731. Arum Colocasia F. I. iii. 494. 
In all the provinces, both wild and cultivated. 
A stout herb. Beng. Kachhu. 
1006. Remusatia Schott. 
Herbs with tuberous rhizomes, emitting long, radical, slender 
shoots, clothed with small bulbils; flowers preceding the solitary 
leaf, with rather short petiole and entire, peltate lamina. Flowers 
monecious; spathe coriaceous, short-stalked; tube convolute, 
ovoid, pibener over the fruit ; limb aie or narrow, erect or 
spreading and reflexed, deciduous; spadix very short, sessile ; 
male and female inflorescence a interposed neuters ; appendage 
0. ¢ with neuters forming lavate mass of densely packed, 
angular, flat-topped florets, ie individual stamens with a fleshy 
connective bearing 2-8 small anther-cells, opening by termin 
slits. ¢ florets forming a short, cylindric inflorescence; 0v47Y 
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