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INDIAN HED10INAJ. 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 lirqb 
which terminates in a filiform clavellate tip, sometimes 3in. long. 
Spadix up to Sin. 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 (Trimen). 
Uses : — The roots are employed as a medicine by the Singha- 
lese. (Th waites.) 
1311 . Sauromatmn guttatum, Schott, h.f.b.i., vi. 
508 . 
Syn. Arum sessiliiiorum. Roxb. 628. 
Vern. : — Loth (Bombay, according to Dymock) ; Bhasaui- 
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 l|-4in., outer ones gradually 
smaller. Spathe 12-24in. green-purple outside, tube 3-4in., 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 
