1334 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



pale-green or dull-purple, very dark-green within, tube as long 

 as the limb, narrow, ribbed, erect, gradually dilated into the 

 slightly decurved ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cymbiform limb 

 which terminates in a filiform clavellate tip, sometimes 3in. long. 

 Spadix up to 3in. long, gradually passing into a very narrowly 

 clavate, pale-green, smooth appendage, longer than the inflores- 

 cene, with a rounded, sometimes verruculose top. Anthers 3-4- 

 nate, sessile, with a few subulate neuters above them. Ovaries 

 very many, minute, densely crowded. Colour of spathe very 

 variable (Trim en). 



Uses : — The roots are employed as a medicine by the Singha- 

 lese. (Thwaites.) 



1311. Sauromatum guttatum, Sehott. h.f.b.l, vi. 

 508. 



Syn. : — Arum sessilinorum. Roxb. 628. 



Vern. :— Loth (Bombay, according to Dymock) ; Bhasam- 

 kand (C. P.). 



Habitat: — The Punjab ; Upper Gangetic Plain and the Hima- 

 layas, from Nepal to Simla ascending to 5,000 feet. Found in 

 the Konkan, abundant in Thana. (K. R. K.) 



Root tuberous, large, globose. Stem spotted with purple, 

 sheathed at base by membranous spotted scales. Leaf solitary, 

 appearing after the flower stalk, radical, pedately compound. 

 Stalk 12-18in., spotted. Leaflets 9-11, oblong lanceolate, 

 unequal, more or less sessiled at base, very variable in size 

 and shape, the central one 6-13 by lj-4in., outer ones gradually 

 smaller. Spathe 12-24in. green-purple outside, tube3-4in., cylin- 

 dric or globosed, inflated, margins united, the inner surface 

 speckled purple on yellow ground, the base deeply purple. 

 Limb lanceolate, narrowed into a long linear curved tip, the 

 inside irregularly blotched with purple and white, the margins 

 purple. Spadix prolonged into a tapering, dark-purple append- 

 age, 6-10in. long. Male and Female flowers on the same plant. 

 Female flowers crowded round the base of the spadix, with 

 a few club-shaped neutral organs above them. Ovary obovate; 

 ovules 1-2. Male flowers crowded in a ring 2-3in. above the 



