258 



in diameter ; seeds cylindric-oblong, minute', several in each cell, 



erect from the base. Marshes of the Southern Concan and Belgaum 



Collectorate, rare. Called " ^"^utsunab" by the natives ; it is 

 a deadly poison. 



3. ARISiEMA, Martins. 



1. A MuRRAYii, Bot. Mag. t. 4388. — Tubers the size of small 

 potatoes ; leaves peltate diviiied ; segments 5 to 6, ovate-lanceo- 

 late acuminate ; lower part of the spathe green, forming a wide tube ; 

 upper ovate convex, somewhat cucuUate, acuminate; spadix subu- 

 late, bent, scarcely longer than the tube of the spathei Mahablesh- 

 wur; flowers in May, before the leaves. Snake Lily of Anglo- 

 Indians. 



2. Erubescens, Schott. Meletem. i, 17 ; Bhime in Rumph. i, 

 93. — Leaves peltate divided; segments 10 to 12, sessile, hnear- 

 lanceolate acuminated, entire, remotely veined ; spadix club-shaped, 

 rather obtuse, shorter than the acuminated-subfornicate spalhe. 

 Syn. Arum erubescens. Wall. Pi. As. rar. ii. 30, t. 156. Between 

 Ram Ghaut and Belgaum in tlie rains. 



3. CuRVATUM, Kunth. Enum. iii, 20. — Stemless ; leaflets 10 to 

 12, lanceolate ; spathe fornicate, half the length of the curved 

 spadix ; roots tuberous ; leaves vi'ith very long petioles ; leaflets 

 entire, glabrous. Syn. Arum curvatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 506. 



4. TYPHONIUM, Schott. 



1. T BuLBiFBRUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, 113. — 5 to 6 

 inches high ; leaves "2, cordate-hastate mucronulate, long-petioled, 

 shining beneath ; petioles 3 times longer than the leaf^ striated, 

 bulb-bearing at the apex; spathe narrow-linear, of a pale rose- 

 colour ; spadix as long as the spathe, filiform, ovule one erect, 

 stalked, fixed to the base of the ovary. Southern Concan ; flowers 

 in June. 



5. TAPINOCARPUS, Dalz. 



1. T Indicus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 346. — Stemless; 

 root small, tuberous, perennial ; leaves long-petioled, cordate-hastate 

 entire ;' basal lobes obtuse ; scape long exserted ; spatiie convolute 

 at the base, above narrow elongated, acuminate, flat; spadix cylin- 

 dric above, slender, as long as the spathe. The scape when in fruit 

 is contorted and bent downwards, the fruit resting on the ground. 

 Vingorla ; in the rains. 



