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Subtribe Abisabe^:. 

 Pinellia, Tenore. 

 To P. tbipabtita, Schott, should be added as a synonym Art- 

 sterna tripartitum, Engler, in DC. Monog. Pbanerog. ii. p. 538 ; 

 and the figure in ' So-Mokou-Zoussets,' 2nd ed. xix. t. 3. 



Japan (Oldham, nos. 819 ! 821 !), ins. Loo-choo ( Wright, 319 !). 



Additional Icones. 

 P. tubebieeba, Ten. Acad. Neap, iv. 1. 10 ; Schott, Gen. Avoid. 

 t. 4. f. 1-20, 30.— Arum ternatum, Thlg.Bot. Zeit. 1879, p. 689, 

 xylogr. ; Abh. Leipz. vii. t. 7 (ex PritzeT) ; So-Mohou-Zonssets, 

 2nd ed. xix. t. 1, and var. angtjstata, Engl, at t. 2. 



Abisabum, Targ.-Tozz. 

 Additional Icones. 

 A. Vttlgabe, Targ.-Tozz., Exp. Scient. de V Alger, t. 44. f. 10-12 

 (seed); Schott, Gen. Aroid. t. 5. 



N.B. The plant figured under the erroneous name of Arum 

 corsicum in the * Gardeners' Chronicle,' 1871, p. 1357, f. 301, and 

 Belg. Hort. xxii. 1872, p. 75, f. 1, is an Arisarum, and is probably 

 identical with A. vulgare. 



A. pboboscideum, Savi, Nuovo Giorn. JBot. It. xi. t. 1. 



AsisiEMA, Martins. 

 Sect. i. Folia trisecta. 

 A. qaleatttm, N. E. Br. in Gardeners 1 Chronicle, 1879, n. s. 

 xii. p. 102. 



Folium solitarium, folio A. speciosi simillitnum. Petiolutn pedunculo 

 quadruplo longius. Spatha extus viridi et albo striata, tubo intus pur- 

 pureo et albo striata, limbo galeato-fornicato, cum lobo apicali ellip- 

 tico-oblongo mucronato pendulo instructo. Spadix unisexualis (mas- 

 culum tantum vidi), synandria 3-5-antherifera, antberis rima circumcissa 

 dehiscentibus ; appendice alba, basi incrassata truncata superne sub 

 galea procurva in filum praelongum dependentem attenuata. — Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6457. India, Sikkim (Gammiel). 



Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft. long, terete, tapering upwards, 

 striate, entirely pale green ; leaflets 3, all on footstalks about an 

 inch long, rich bright green, with narrow purple crimped mar- 

 gins, the course of the midribs whitish, somewhat rugose above 

 from the impressed midrib and veins, which are all prominent 



