254 MB. H*. E. BB0WN ON SOME NEW AROIDE.3S, 



part of limb hardly 1 in. long and about I5 in. broad, very broadly 

 elliptic ovate, abruptly contracted into a filiform tail 6 in. 

 long, slightly clavate at apex. Spadix unisexual; male 1| in. 

 long, straight, very slender, less than 1 line thick in the dried 

 state, with the basal third rather closely covered with subsessile 

 4-anthered synandria ; appendix not thickened at base, or but very 

 slightly so, slightly attenuate above the middle, with a clavate 

 smooth apex ; female not seen. 



Of this I have seen but one specimen, in the Kew Herbarium, 

 sent by Dr. Thwaites in 1868. Its nearest affinity appears to be 

 with A. echinatum, Schott ; but it is very distinct from that spe- 

 cies, being easily recognized by its smaller longer-tailed spathe, 

 and more slender non-echinate spadix. 



AnisiEMA concinnum, Schott in Bonpl. 1859, p. 27 ; Schott, 

 Prod. p. 50 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5914 ; Gardeners' Chronicle, 1880, n. s. 

 xiii. p. 431. 



Iu all the places here quoted, this species is described as having 

 the spathe of the male plant purple with white stripes, and of the 

 female green with white stripes ; but in reality both sexes occur 

 with both colours. I have seen male and female spathes purple 

 and white, and also green and white, upon plants cultivated at 

 Kew ; and the very plants mentioned by the writer in the ' Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle ' were males with green and white spathes. I 

 scarcely think the colour in this case of specific value. 



Additional Icones. 

 A. nepenthoides, Mart., Bot. Mag. t. 6446 ; Schott, Gen. Aroid. 

 t. 6. figs. 20-26. 



A. Mubbayi, Grdh., Fl. des Serres, t. 1322. 



Subtribe Abineje. 

 Biabtjm, Schott. 

 Sect. Ischarum, Blume. 

 The following species are omitted from Engler's monograph : — 



B. Fraasianum, AT. JE. Br. — Ischarum Fraasianum, Schott in 

 Oest. bot. Zeitschr. 1859, p. 98 ; Prod. p. 68. 



"Vaginae bracteantes 5-6, latse. Folia .... Spathae tubus parum ventri- 

 cosus, subcylindroideus ad medium circiter conuatus ; lamina ovato- 

 lanceolata vel oblonga, breviter cuspidata, expansa. Spadix mediara 



