plant done in India. From this we have borrowed the sketch 
of the spadix, to be seen by the side of the principal figure in 
our plate; and from the manuscript illustration of the 
drawing the following account. 
“‘ Native of the shady Mango-Groves, &c. near Semul- 
cotah, where the soil is pretty dry and fertile. Root peren- 
nial, tuberous, neatly round, white with small inequalities; 
surrounded by fibres at the top where the leaves and scape 
come out. Stem none. Leaves radical, petioled, deeply 
_three-lobed, 8-10 inches across each way, lobes ovate, 
pointed, a little scalloped, smooth, with a double nerve at 
the under side near to and parallel with the margin: petioles 
erect, round, tapering, striate, about 12 inches long, sheath- 
ing and embracing each other at the base. Scapes axillary 
very short, just long enough to elevate the spathes above the 
ground. Spathes shorter than the petioles, striate, erect, 
red on the inside, -herbaceously green on the outer. Spadix 
surrounded at the base with germens crowned (placed im- 
mediately below) many yellow branching (antherless) fila- 
ments; swelled in the middle with anthers; and above 
these a second row of barren filaments; club scarlet, as long 
as all the rest of the spadix, upright, tapered from a concave 
base to a point which is neither obtuse nor sharp.” 
“ The roots when fresh are exceedingly acrid, more so 
than those of the Common Dragon (Arum Dracunculus) or 
the Wake-Robin (Arum maculatum) of Europe. The natives 
apply them in cataplasms to discuss or bring forward scir- 
rhous tumours. They also apply them externally for the bite 
of venomous snakes; at the same time giving inwardly a 
piece about as big as a field-bean.” 
The Aroidece of Mr. Brown include the Typha as well 
as the Aroidew of Jussieu, and are defined by a character, 
of which the following is intended for the english version. 
Flowers spadiceously aggregated (collected together in a 
body upon a spadix); sometimes bearing the stamens and 
the pistils separate and usually naked; sometimes with a 
4-6- seldom 3-parted calyx bearing both stamens and pistil. 
Stamens in the naked flowers aggregated, in those with a 
calyx opposite to the segments of the calyx and generally 
equal to them in number, with anthers that face outwards. 
Germens, in flowers where stamens and pistil are borne in 
separate ones, placed at the lowermost part of either the same 
