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than described by Blume ; but in another specimen collected by 

 Dr. Shearer in the province of Kew Kiang, China, which I am 

 unable to separate specifically from the Surly Island plant, the 

 leaflets are only 11 in number. As before stated, I would place 

 A. JieteropJiylluvi (*. e. if I am correct in my identification of it), 

 near .4. tortuosum, Schott, and A. curvatum, Kunth. Erom both 

 of these, and from all others of the group at present known, it is 

 readily distinguished by the middle leaflet being shorter than the 

 lateral ones next it, and by all the leaflets being shortly cus- 

 pidate at apex, not acuminate. 



Aeis^ma decipiens, Schott. In Engler's recent monograph 

 (DC. Monog. Phanerog. ii. 542) this species is placed in a section 

 characterized as having a long subulate pendulous appendix to the 

 spadix; but the spadix of A. decipiens (the type specimen of 

 which is in the Kew Herbarium !) is straight and subtruncate at 

 apex, and only slightly exceeds the mouth of the spathe-tube. 

 Its affinity seems to be with A. japonicum, Bl., A. amurense, 

 Maxim., and A. quinatum, Schott. Engler, at the place quoted, 

 says, probably indigenous in Java ; but it is a native of the Khasia 

 hills. Schott, in his original description in Oestr. bot. "Wochenbl. 

 1857, p. 373, gives the locality as " Khasia ? " ; the " ? " should 

 have been omitted. The following specimens are in the Kew 

 Herbarium :— Khasia, 5000-7000 feet, Hook. f. & Thorns., at 

 Nurtiung and Pomrang ! ; Griffith, no. 5973 ! ; Clarke, no. 18363 !, 

 at Jaintea. 



The descriptions of the following two species are omitted by 

 Engler in his monograph (DC. Monog. Phanerog. ii. p. 560) ; they 

 will be found fully described at the places cited below : — 



A. sikokianum, Franch. Sf Savat. En. Plant. Japon. ii. p. 507 

 (and p. 6, name only). 



Seems to be allied to A. quinatum, Schott, and perhaps is the 

 same as the plant figured in the second edition of the ' So-Mokou- 

 Zoussets,' vol. xix. 1. 17. It is intermediate between the sections 

 Trisecta and Pedatisecta. 



A. angustatum, Franch. Sf Savat. En. Plant. Japon. ii. p. 507 

 (and p. 6, name only). 



Allied to A. serratum, Schott. 



The names only of the above two species appeared in part i., 

 and the descriptions in part. ii. of vol. ii. ; both parts were pub- 

 lished in 1876. 



