N. O. AROIDE*. 
1335 
female. Berries scarlet, 1-seerled, in a globose hear), more or 
less enveloped in the withered base of the spathe. Flowers 
when mature smell of carrion. (Collett.) Of late years the 
tubers have been sold by most of the bulb growers in England 
under the name of “ Monarch of the East.” They are advertised 
to grow in a warm room, “ without water or soil.” (B.D.B.) 
Uses :—' The tubers, which are like small potatoes, are used 
as a stimulating poultice ; they are very acrid.” (Dymock.) 
1312. Typhovium trilobatum. Schott, h.f.b.i., 
vi. 509. 
8yn : — Typhonium orixenze, ■Schott. Arum orixense, Roxb. 
(127. 
Vern — Ghit-kochu 'Beng.); Knrunaik-kizhangu (Tam.); 
Kanda-gadda (Tel.) ; Oliena (Mai.) 
Habitat : — Lower Bengal, Burma, the Eastern and Western 
Peninsula. Ceylon, where it is common in damp places, in moist 
low country. Often a troublesome weed in cultivated ground, 
says Trimen. 
Tuberous monceoious herb, Stem 0. Tuber sub-globose, 
about lin. diam. Leaves long petioled, hastately 3-lobed, with 
a truncate or cordate or 2-lobed base, the lobes broad or narrow, 
sinus sometimes very deep and narrow, or 3-partite, with 
segments 5-7in. long, the central broadly ovate, acuminate, 
lateral smaller. Petiole fi-12in. Spathe 3-8in. Peduncle l-4in., 
tube oblong or pyriform, much shorter than the broadly ovate, 
caudate acuminate, expanded limb, which is dull red-purple 
within, paler externally, with undefined green stripes ; spadix 
2-4in., sessile, erect, male inflorescence cylindric, female very- 
short, surmounted by a dense mass of filiform tortuous neuters, 
gin. long, interspace between the neuters and male inflorescence 
naked ; appendage shortly stipitate, slender, striate, acute or 
obtuse, red, base truncate ; anthers minute ; ovaries crowded 
in a hemispheric mass, stigma pulvinate. (Trimen.) 
. Uses: — The roots are exceedingly acrid, and used in 
poultices; and also applied externally to the bite of venomous 
