508 CLXVi. AROiDK*. (J, D. Hooker.) [AriDcema. 



The CoNCAN ; in the Ghats, Gibson, ^c. 



Tuber large, ieo/ solitary, maturing after the flowering ; petiole 10-14 in. and 

 Bubequal p duncle greenish mottled with red-brown ; leaflets 4-6 in. Spafhe 3-5 in., 

 tube green striated, f-1 in. diam. ; limb rather broader, margins not recurved, 

 except round the mouth of the tube. Spadix narrowed from the base upward ; 

 appendage l-lj in., sessile ; male fl. scattered, with a few neuters above them. 



38. A. caudatum, Angler Mbnog. Arac. 559 ; leaflets 7 cuneately 

 elliptic acuminate with Jong capillary tips, tube of spathe elongate 

 cylindric, limb incurved ovate-lanceolate rather abruptly narrowed into a 

 very long subulate tail, margins below recurved, appendage rather short 

 not thickened below included. 



The CoNCAN, Stocks (Ic. in Serb. Kew). 



Tuber depressed globose, l^eaf solitary ; petiole stout, and peduncle irro- 

 rately barred and streaked ; leaflets petiolulate, 5 by 2 in. exclusive of the 

 thread-like tips which are 1-3 in. long. Pedv/ncle very short. Spathe 6 in., ex- 

 clusive of the 3 in. caudate tip. Spadix androgynous j appendage shorter than the 

 flowering portion, tip rounded. — Described from a drawing by Stocks ; I have seen 

 no specimen. 



UNBEOOOBIZED SPECIES. 



A ? PENTAPHTIIUM, Schott Melefem. i. 17 ; Syn. 28 ; Prodr. 59 ; Kunfh 

 Enum. iii. 20 ; Blume Sumph. i. 109 ; Engler Ardc. 560. Arum pentaphyllum, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 964.— Ind. Or.; China. 



A? HEPTAPHTLITTM, SJitme Sumphia i. 109; Kwnth Enum. iii. 20. Schott 

 St/n. 31 ; Prodr. 59 ; Engler Arac. 560.— Ind. Or. 



5. SAVROnXATUnX, Schott. 



Tuberous herbs, leafing after flowering. Leaf solitary, pedatipartite. 

 Spathe shortly peduncled, tube cylindric short, margins connate below ; 

 limb very long, reflexed, narrow, open. Spadix sessile, very long ; male 

 and fern. infl. widely distant, short, dense fld., with a few large clavate 

 scattered neuters close above the fem. ; appendage slender, as long 

 as the spathe. Anthers subsessile, 4-celled. Ovaries oblong, 1-celled ; 

 stigma sessile ; ovules 1-2, basal, erect. Berries obpyramidal, 1-seeded. — 

 Species tropical Asiatic and African. 



S. guttatum, Schott Meletem. i. 17 ; Frodr. 71 ; Blume Sumph. L 

 126 ; Engler Arac. 570. S. pedatum, Schott Melet. I. c. ; Gen. t. 11 ; Syn. 

 24 ; Prodr. 70 ; Blume I. c. ; Kunth Enum. iii. 28 ; Engler I. c. 569 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4465 ; Regel Gartevfl. (1866), 3, t. 495. 8. venosum, Schott Frodr. 

 71. S. sessiliflorum, Kunth I. e. ; Schott I c; N. E. Br. in Juurn. Linn. 

 Sac. xviii. 256. S simlense, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1858), i. 263 ; 

 Prodr. 72 ; N. E. Br. I. c. ; in Gard. Ghron. (1880), ii. 134, 198. S. punctatum, 

 C. Koch in Berlin Wochenschr. i. 263 ; N. E. Br. in Gard. Ghron. I. c. 

 Arum guttatum. Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 10, t. 115. A. pedatum, Willd. 

 Enum. Suppl. 54 ; Link, et Otto Ic. 19, t. 8. A. sessiliflorum, Soxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 507 ; Wight Ic. t. 800. A. venosum, Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1017. 

 A. clavatum, Desf. Gat. Sort. Par. 385. 



The Pakjab, TJppbe Ganoetio Plain, and the Himalaya, from Nepal to 

 Simla, ascending to 5000 ft. ? The Concan, Seri. Stockn. 



Tuber large. Petiole stout, 12-18 in. ; leaf 6—12 in. broad, segments or lobes 

 7-15, very variable, 2-15 by 1-3 in., lobes of young leaves sometimes rounded or the 

 lateral dimidiate-ovate or cordate, when numerous oblong or lanceolate. Peduncle 

 1-2 in., very stout, green or spotted. Spathe 12-28 in., tube ovoid or subglolose; 



