Thenophmmm.] olxvi. aroidb*. (J. D Hooker.) 513 



oi q"i ^" ^«y**«*««n»!i ^- E- Br. in Jowm. Lmn. 8oc. xviii. 258 ; gpathe 

 SS_5-d3 m., anthers globose shortly beaked, lower neuters twice as long as 

 the upper. Arum divaricatum, Thw. Enwm. 334 {excl. syn.). 



Ceylon ; common in the hotter parts of the island, Thwaites. 



Leaves hastate, 3^-7 in. long, lobes linear or median broader; petiole 4-12 in. 

 Peduncle li-4 in. Spadix 1^2 in. Ovaries few. 



** Anthers not leaked, opening hy pores. Lower neuters near the ovaries, 

 upper few or 0. 



4. T. Dalzellil, Schott Aroid.i.15; Syn.2l; spathe 5-7 in. Engler 

 Arac. 608. Tapinooarpus Dalzellii, Schott Gen. Avoid, t. 15 ; Prodr. 104. 

 T. indious, Dalz. in Rook. Journ. Sot. iii. (1851) 346. 



The Southern Concan and Northern Canaka, Stocks, Talbot. 



Tuber size of a walnut. Leaves 4-6 in., elliptic oblong or linear, base rounded 

 hastate or sagittate ; petiole 3-10 in., very stout. Peduncle stout ; fruiting twisted 

 and decurved to the ground. Spathe oblong-lanceolate, tube white; limb flat, 

 dark purple. Appendage terete, twice as long as the iufl.— Much the stoutest 

 species. 



5. T. infaustum, N. E. Br. in Journ. Limn. Soc. xviii. 260 ; spathe 

 li-2 in. T. Wightii, Engl. Arac. 608 {not of Schott). Calyptrocoryne 

 Wightii, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Wochenbl. (1857) 282; Prodr. 105; Gen. 

 Aroid. t. 16. Typhonium minutum, BlumeBumph. i. 134 ; Engler, I. c. 609. 

 Arum minutum, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 484 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 228. A. 

 muoronatum, in pa/rt, Spreng. Syst. iii, 769. — Bheede Hort. MaL xi. t. 17 

 {small figure). 



Malabae {Eheede) ; Paul Ghat, Wight. ' 



Leaves as in T. Dalzellii, but smaller with the basal lobes usually rounded. 

 Spathe narrowly lanceolate, acute, white or purplish. Appendage stipitate, base 

 elongate conical. 



9. AMORPKOPKAXiXiUS, Blume. 



Tuberous herbs, flowering before leafing. Leaves 3-partite, segments 

 pinnatisect. Spathe various ; limb campanulate iniundibular convolute or 

 open, marcescent. Spadix exserted or included ; appendage large, short or 

 long; infl. cylindric, dense fld., male and fem. contiguous, neuters 0. 

 Anthers 2-4, sessile, cells oblong, pores apical. Ovaries globose or obovoid, 

 1-4-celled ; style short or long, stigma entire or 2-4-lebed ; ovules solitary, 

 Bubbasilar, anatropons. Berries subglobose or obovoid. Seeds exalbumi- 

 nous; embryo macropodous. — Species about 30-40, tropics of the Old 

 World. 



* Style many times longer tban the ovary. 



1. iV. campanulatus, Blume ex Decne. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Pa/r. iii. (1834), 366 {excl. all syn. but Boxh.) ; peduncle very short and 

 petiole rough, spathe campanulate limb subereot or recurved waved and 

 crenulate, spadix hardly longer than the spathe, appendage globosely 

 conoid or amorphous sinuously -lobed. Thw. Enum. 335. Dalz. Sf Oibs. 

 Bomb. Ft. 259 ; Engler Arac. 309 (excl. many syns. Sc citations). A. Chatty, 

 Andre in Illustr. Sortie. (1872), 361. A. virosus, N. E. Br. in Qa/rd. 

 Chron. (1886) 759; Bot. Mag. t. 6978. Oandaruoa Eoxburghii, Schott 

 Melet. i. 17. Arum campanulatum, Boxh. Gor. PL iii. 68, t. 272 ; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 509 ; Wight Ic. t. 785, and ? 782. 



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