485 



GENTJS IV. SAUROMATUM. 



IMConoeoia Enneandvia. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Spathe tubular at the base, limb flat, spreading : 

 spadix interruptedly androgynous below, rudimentary organs scat- 

 tered below the stamens, apex sub-clavate : anthers sessUe, distinct : 

 cells opposite, somewhat obliquely dehisciag by a small cleft : 

 ovaries many, free, 1 -celled: ovules 2, basUar, erect from short 

 threads, orthotropal : stigma termiaal, sessile, depresso hemisphe- 

 rical : berries 1 -seeded. — Herbs with a globose, fleshy, large, 

 rooting tuber : scape radical, very short, scaly at the base : spathe 

 spotted : leaf appearing late, pedatipartite, many-lobed. 



(1) S. SESSniFLOBTTM. fSchott.) 



Ident. Kimth Enum. pi. III. p. 28. 



8yn. Arum sessiliflorum, Roxb. fior. Xnd. III. 507. 



Engrm. Wight's Icon. t. 800. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : leaves pedate : leaflets about 9, broad- 

 lanceolate, entire : spathes sessile, bursting out when the plant is 

 destitute of flowers, revolute, twice exceeding the long, conical, 

 erect, acute spadix : nectarial filaments club-shaped : ' anthers 

 2-lobed ; berries 1 — 2-seeded. 



Around Cawnpore, flowering in the hot weather. 



GENUS V. AMOEPHOPHALLUS. 



nconceoia Polyandria, Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Spathe convolute at the base, Hmb flat, spread- 

 ing : spadix continuously androgynous below, rudimentary organs 

 none : sterile appendage elongated, smooth or depresso-dilated, 

 warty : anthers distinct, furnished with a very short filament : cells 

 2, opposite, dehiscing at the apex by a double pore : ovaries many, 

 free, 2 — 3 — 4-celled : ovules soKtary in the cells, basilar, anatropal : 

 style distinct or none : stigma sometimes capitately undivided, 

 sometimes emarginate or depresso-lobate : berries distinct, 1 few- 

 seeded : seed exalbuminous. — Herbs with a fleshy rooting tuber : 

 scape radical, short : leaves appearing late, sub-solitary, bi-pinna- 

 tifid-decompound. 



(1) A. CAMPANTOATUs. (Bhbme.) 

 Blume in Decaisne descr. herb. Timor. 38 : in Rumphia 



I. 139. 



