N. 0. AR0IDE.E. 
1341 
spotted with green, purple within towards the base. Spadix 
up to lOin. long, erect, appendage up to 7in., by fin. diam. ; 
but often more slender, sometimes tapering from the middle 
to base and apex, purple, smooth. Male flowers of scattered or 
fascicled minute sessile obcuneate anthers (J. D. H.) Anthers 
in gioups of 4-6, purple or pink ; ovary globose, green, 
stigma yellow ; style very short, neuters as large as the groups 
of stamens or larger oval or oblong, disciform, pale, shining. 
Male and female infloresence distant, with the oblong depressed 
interposed neuters. 
Uses: — The country people use the crushed seed to cure 
toothache. A small quantity is placed in the hollow tooth and 
covered with cotton ; it rapidly benumbs the nerve ; they also 
use it as an external application to bruises on account of its 
benumbing effect. In the Concan, the seeds rubbed into a 
paste with water are applied repeatedly to remove glandular 
enlargements. The taste of the fruit is intensely acrid ; after 
a few seconds it causes a most painful burning of the tongue 
and lips, which lasts, for a long time, causing much salivation 
and subsequent numbness. (Dymock.) 
1315 . Pleamomum margaritiferum', Schott, 
II.F.B.I., VI. 518 . 
Syn. : -Arum margaritiferum, Roxb. 630. 
Vern. : — The Goa name of the plant is Azomut or Uzomut. 
(Dymock). 
Habitat : — Bengal (Roxb.); Serampore (Bentham) ; Dacca 
(Clarke) ; Asnora in the Goa territory (Dymock) ; Hindustan. 
Tuberous herbs. Tuber 6in. or less, bulbiferous all over. 
Leaves l^ft. diam., 3-sect, segments pinnatisect, lateral forked ; 
leaflets few, 4-6in., linear, acuminate. Petiole l|-2ft. green. 
Peduncle 12-18in., stout, pale-green, streaked with darker 
green. Spathe 5-6in. by 4in. broad, erect, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
concave, loosely convolute ; below the middle, pale yellow- 
green, flushed with pink within, dark-purple at base. Spadix 
very stout, stipitate, obtuse, as long as the spathe ; male inflo- 
resecence much the longest ; neuters as large as peas, white, 
