248 ME. N. E. BEOWN ON SOME NEW AEOIBE^I. 



within, margins of the mouth not revolute ; limb about as long 

 as the tube, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate into a filiform apex. 

 Spadix bisexual, much shorter than the spathe, but exserted from 

 the tube, apex recurved, the flower-bearing part reaching to about 

 halfway up the tube of the spathe ; appendix slender, not thick- 

 ened at base, the whole of it covered with scattered subulate 

 neuter organs. Synandria stipitate, 2-4-6-anthered ; anthers 

 purple. Ovaries globose, with a short style, green. 



A very marked plant, quite distinct from all other described 

 Indian species, and of those at present known comes nearest to 

 the following species (A. penicillatum) and to A. ornatum, Miq., 

 from both of which it is abundantly distinct ; it is also allied to 

 A. cuspidatum, Eoxb., but is quite distinct. It was only once 

 collected by Mr. C. B. Clarke in the Khasia hills at the village of 

 Mausmai ; on his label is written, " Plant white : spathe white." 

 Mr. Clarke does not now recollect what the first two words 

 imply, but that probably the leaves are of a very pale whitish 

 green, or perhaps the petiole is white. The position of the ova- 

 ries and synandria seems variable, as in one spadix the basal half 

 of the inflorescence is entirely male, the upper half being entirely 

 female ; in the other spadix the basal half of the inflorescence is 

 composed of ovaries and synandria mixed, the upper half being 

 entirely male. 



Abis-zema penicillatus!, JV". .27. Br. (Plate V.) 

 Folia duo. Lamina trisecta, segmentis sequilongis, lanceolatis vel ovato- 

 laneeolatis, apice acuminatis, aristatis ; lateralibus subsessilibus, basi ina> 

 quilatis, intermedio breviter petiolulato. Pedunculus petiolo brevior vel 

 longior. Spathae tubus limbo longior; limbus incurvatus, breviter ob- 

 longus, subrepentino cuspidatus, aristatus. Spadix unisexualis tenuis 

 spat ha paulo brevior ; appendice apicem versus procurva et processibus 

 subulatis instructa; femineus supra ovaria organis neutris subulatis ad- 

 scendentibus obsitus. — A. laminatum, Bentb. in Flora Hongkongensis, 

 p. 342, nee Blume. Hongkong {Urquhart, no. 182!; Harland, no. 

 1026 \, = Hance, 1238, ex Harland in Herb. Kew.; "Ravine, Mount 

 Victoria, May 1874," Lamont in Herb. Mus. Brit. ! Ford, no. 1 !). 

 Leaves two. Lamina trisect ; leaflets subequal in length, 4-G in. 

 long, l-j-2 in. broad, lanceolate or ovate -lanceolate, acuminate and 

 terminated by an arista-like point £ in. long; middle leaflet 

 shortly petiolulate, euneate at base; lateral leaflets subsessile, 

 rounded, and the outer side much the broadest at the base, mar- 

 gins entire or very slightly crenulated. Peduncle shorter or 



