Sauromatum.] clxvi. aeoide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 609 



limb linear-lanceolate, thick, green or yellowish with dark purple spots or blotches, 

 margins usually purple and waved. SpacUx as long as the spathe or nearly so ; fem. 

 infl. i in. J neuters ^ in. long, spreading j male infl. 3 in. above the fem., i In. long; 

 anthers densely packed ; appendage 2-8 in., cylindric and obtuse, or narrowed from 

 the base to a fine point, green or dark purple.— S. guttatum is confined to North- 

 west India, except Stocks' specimens should prove to be from the Concan, of which 

 there is no evidence. 



6. ARUnX, lAnn. 



Tuberous herbs. Leaves simple. Spathe deciduous or withering, tube 

 convolute ; limb cymbiform, erect. Spadix exserted, androgynous, with 

 subulate subereot neuters between the male and fem. infl., and deflexed 

 ones above the male ; appendage subcylindrio. Anthers sessile, pollen 

 vermiform. Ovary 1-oelled ; stigma sessile ; ovules many on 2-3 parietal 

 placentas. Serries obovoid, many-seeded. Seeds albuminous, embryo 

 axUe. — Species about 20, Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. 



A. Jacquemontii, Slume Bumph. i. 118 ; leaves hastately sagittate 

 or hastate, limb of spathe narrowly lanceolate acuminate or caudate. 

 Schott Frodr.99. A. Griffithii, ScAoft Syn. i. Ih; Prodr. I. c; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 38 ; N. JE. Br. in journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 257. 



TS.W.lsDik, Jacquemoni. Kashmir j Gilgit, alt. 6-7000 ft., Q-iles. — Disteib. 

 Affghan. 



Tuber as large as a chesnut. Leaves 5-12 in. ; petiole 5-16 in. Peduncle equal- 

 linger longer than the petiole. Spathe 3-7 in., white-greenish or purplish. Ovturies 

 globose. Berries red. 



7. TVPHONIUltt, S<-hott. 



Tuberous herbs. Leaves entire, 3-5-lobed or pedatisect. Tube of 

 sjJaMe short, convolute, mouth'constrioted, persistent; limb ovate-oblong 

 lanceolate or linear, deciduous. Spadix exserted, male and fem. infl. 

 distant with neuters above the fem. and sometimes below the males ; 

 appendage elongate, smooth. Anthers subsessile. Ovaries 1-oelled ; 

 stigma sessile; ovules 1-2, basal, erect, orthotropous. Serries ovoid, 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds globose, albuminous; embryo axile. — Species about 13, 

 tropics of the Old World. 



* Limb of spathe broadly ovate, open, narrowed into a long point. 



1. T. trllobatum, Schott in Wien. Zeitschr. iii. (1829) 72 ; Aroid. i. 

 12 ; 1. 16 ; Syn. 18 ; Prodr. 108 ; leaves hastately 3-lobed or sub-3-partite, 

 neuters above fem. infl. very many and long fiUform curved, appendage 

 stipitate base expanded' truncate lobulate intruded. Blume Humph, i. 132 

 (in part) ; Kunth. JEnum. iii. 26 (in part) ; Engler Arae. 614 ; in Bull. Soc. 

 Tose. Ori. iv. 301 ; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 261. T. orixonse, 

 Schott inWien. Zeitsch. I. c. ; Wall. Oat. 8829. T. siamense, Engler I. c. 

 615. T. triste, Oriff. Notul. iii. 145. Arum trilobatum, lAnn. Sp. PI. 

 965 ; Thw. Enum. 334 ; Qrah. Oat. Bomb. PI. 228. A. orixense, Boxb. Fl. 

 Lnd. iii. 503; Wight le. t. ^01; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 442; And^. Bot. Pep. 

 t. 356 ; Bot. Peg. t. 450 ; Gfriff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 50 (anal.). ? A. pumilum, 

 Lamk. JEnge. iii. 8. ? Arisssma pumilum, Blume Bwm,p}i. i. 107 ; Kunth 

 I. c. 20 ; Schott Syn. 27 ; Prodr. 59. 



LowEE BEiraAi;, Bdema, the Easteen and Wesiben Pbhinsuia and Ceylon. 

 — Disteib. Slam, Malay Islds. 



