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6. AMORPHOPHALLUS, Blume. 



1. A Campanulatus, B1. in DeCaisne Descr. Herb. Timor. 

 38. — Root perennial, tuberous, of enormous size ; leaves radical, 

 few, thrice bifid, divisions outwardly pinnatifid ; segments oblique- 

 ly oblong-pointed, smooth ; petioles round, pretty smooth or 

 verrucose, clouded ; spathe large, leathery, campanulate, the border 

 curled ; spadix about as long as the spathe, lower and flowering 

 part cylindric, upper part very short and broad, conical or sub- 

 globular, lobate and wrinkled. This is the cultivated Soorun ; it 

 grows wild on the banks of streams in the Southern Concan. Syn. 

 Arum campanulatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 509. The flowers appear 

 long before the leaves. 



. 2. A Sylvaticus, Kunth. Enum. iii, p 34. — Root perennial, 

 tuberous, nearly smooth, like a potato ; stem none ; leaves radical, 

 1 to 2-petioled, thrice 2 or more lobed ; lobes pinnatifid ; segments 

 lanceolate ; petioles winged ; scape tall, erect, round ; spathe one- 

 third the length of the spadix, which tapers to a long, subulate point. 

 Southern Concan, common. This is probably the plant entered as 

 Dracontium in Grah. Cat. p 229. Syn. Arum sylvaticum, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii, 511. 



7. ARIOPSIS, J. Grah. 



1. A Peltata, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. p 252. — A small plant; 

 leaf solitary, orbicular, peltate ; spathe small, cucullate, a little 

 longer than the spadix ; spadix club-shaped, foraminiferous, each 

 foramen containing 6 anthers ; ovaries below adnate with the spathe. 

 Common in the Concan ; flowers in June. 



8. REMUSATIA, Schott. 



I. R ViviPAEA, Schott. Meletem. i, 18. — Stemless; root tuber- 

 ous ; leaves appearing after the flowers, long-petioled, peltate 

 cordate, acuminate; peduncle with bracts short; spathe yellow. 

 In the clefts of trees in the Ghaut jungles ; it rarely flowers, but 

 sends up several stalks, covered with minute, scaly bulbs. Syn. 

 Arum viviparum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 496 ; Rheed. xii, t. 9. 



CXL. XYRIDACE^. 

 1. XYRIS, Linn. 



1. Indica, Linn. Zeyl. 14. — A rush-like plant, smooth; 

 peduncles round, grooved, sheathed with the leaf below ; leaves 

 linear ensiform, shorter than the peduncle ; spikes elliptic, many- 



