N.' 0. AEOIDEjE. 
1333 
to Bhutan. The Khasia Hills, Manipore ; the Western Ghats, 
from the Konkan to Malabar. 
Tuberous herbs. Tubers spheroidal, attaining 5in. diam. 
Petiole l-3ft., green or with the sheaths mottled with purple. 
Leaves 2-3. Leaflets 8-18in., distant or crowded or almost 
radiately disposed, sessile or petiolulate ovate-or linear-lanceo- 
late, subcaudately acuminate. Peduncle 2-4ft. Spathe 4-6in., 
pale-green or purplish, tube subcylindric, tapering, gradually 
dilating into the limb. The limb incurved broadly cymbiform, 
acuminate. Spadix uni-or bisexual ; appendage like a rat’s tail 
quite smooth, narrowed from the base to the tip erect. Ovary 
ovoid, attenuated into a short style. Berry 4-5-seeded. A very 
variable plant. 
Collett describes the following two species separately as 
included by Hooker under A. tortuosum. Schott — -as growing 
at Simla— (1) A. curvatum, Kunth : — Male and female flowers 
on different or on the same plants. Anthers blue or purple. 
(2) A. helleborifolium. Schott — Male and female flowers on 
the same plant, but in very unequal numbers. Anthers white 
or yellow. 
Uses : — It is stated to have poisonous qualities. In Kfilu, 
the seeds are said to be given with salt for colic in sheep. 
The root is used to kill the worms which infest cattle in the 
rains. (Stewart.) , 
1310 . A. Leschenaultii, Blume. h.f.b.i., vi. 504 . 
Vern. : — Wal-kidaran (Singh). 
Habitat : — Western Ghats, from the Konkan southward. 
Ceylon. 
Monoecious or dioecious. Tuber large, globose 2in. diam. 
Stem 6in. stout, clothed with long mottled sheaths Leaf soli- 
tary, pedatipartite. Leaflets 5-1 1-whorled, sub-sessile, lanceolate, 
serrulate, caudate acuminate, dark-green above, with a stout 
mid-rib, pale beneath, base acuminate. Petiole stout, 1ft. long, 
pale-green, irregularly barred or mottled with pale-purple. 
Spathe emerging from the sheath of the petiole, very shortly 
peduncled, 6-18in, long, dark-green, externally striped with 
