TACCARUM (name adapted from Tacca, from the resemblance to that genus). SYNS. Endera, Lysistigma. ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A small genus (three or four species) of tall, stove, tuberous, Brazilian herbs. Flowers monoecious; spathe erect, the tube short and convolute, the blade gaping or explanate, oblong, acute;spadix in appendiculate, shorter than the spathe, shortly stipitate, loose-flowered, the male inflorescence ovoid or elongated longer than the petioles. Leaves long-petiolate, broadly hastate-ovate, bipinnatifid; pinnae undulated. Two of the species have been introduced. They are closely allied to Staurostigma (which see for culture). TACCARUM peregrinum (foreign). fl., spathe olive-green, ovate, acuminate, slightly exceeding the spadix; spadix sub-cylindrical, attenuated from the base to the apex, clothed throughout with flowers, the male and female inflorescences of equal length. l. solitary, cotemporary with the flowers, large, tripartite, pinnatifidly compound; petioles long, terete, spotted, 3ft. high. Tuber sub-hemispherical. 1873. SYNS. Endera conophalloidea (R. G. 732), Lysistigma peregrinum. TACCARUM Warmingianum (Dr. Warming's) fl., spathe light copperytinted brown, 1 1/4ft. long convolute below, open above; spadix shorter than the spathe; ovaries green, surrounded by four to six fleshy, dirty-brown staminodia; stamens of male flowers united into a thick, fleshy, round-topped, pinkish column; scape 8in. long. October to January. l. solitary, bright green, with a spread of 2ft. to 2 1/2ft., having three principal bipinnatifid divisions; petiole 3ft. high, stout, light green, marked with numerous white lines. 1882. (G. C. n. s., xvi., p. 661; R. G. 1124.)