256 ME. N. E. BROWN ON SOME NEW AEOIDEJS 



Sauromatttm sessilifloeum, Kunth, En. Plant, iii. p. 28; 

 Schott,Prod. p. 71. — Arum sessiliflorum, Moxb. Fl. Ind. iii. p. 507; 

 Wight, Icones, iii. p. 6, t. 800. India, ad Cawnpore {Roxburgh). 



This species is readily distinguished from all the others by the 

 coloration of the spathe, which I nowhere find properly described. 

 The following note upon the colour is based upon a copy of Rox- 

 burgh's original drawing in the Kew Herbarium : — Tube of the 

 spathe externally of a dirty green suffused with purple; the 

 limb externally is green marked with red at the edges. Inter- 

 nally it has a very broad, obscurely mottled, deep violet-purple 

 band running up the centre ; on each side of this band it is light 

 greenish with small red linear markings, the margins narrowly 

 bordei*ed with darker green. The appendix is light chrome- 

 green. 



S. punctatum, C. Koch in Wochenschrift fur Giirtn. und Pflan- 

 zenl\ 1858, i. p. 263 ; J\ T . JE. Br. in Gardeners' Chronicle, 1880, 

 n. s. xiv. pp. 134, 198. 



" Petiolus elatus, macuktus ; lamina trifoliata, foliolo medio solitario ellip- 

 tico, longe acuminata, lateralibus pedato-septempartitis, laciniis exterio- 

 ribus minoribus ; pedunculus brevis ; spatha; elongatte pars aperta, basi 

 brunneo maculata excepta, unicolor, sed striata." Habitat ? 



S. simxense, Schott in Oesterr. hot. Zeitsch. 1858, p. 319; 



Prod. p. 72. 



" Folium pedatum sub 9-partitum, partitionibus oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 longe acuminatis, petiolo maculato variegato. Spatha brevis, 4-polH- 

 caris, acuminata. Spadix spatha longior, supra ovaria organis neutris 

 nonnullis contiguis obsitus. Appendix subulata quam reliquus spadix 

 paulo hrevior." Habit, in Simla (T. Thomson). 



This is considered by Engler as synonymous with 8. venosum, 

 Schott (see Engler iu DC. Monog. Phanerog. ii. p. 571); but it is 

 very distinct, being easily distinguished from that and all other 

 described species by its small inflorescence, the spathe being not 

 more than about £ or \ as large as that of S. venosum ; the limb 

 appears to be unspotted, and the appendix of the spadix (in the 

 dried specimen) is very slender and subulate ; furthermore, it 

 produces leaves at the time of flowering, which does not appear 

 to be the case with any of the other described species. Its affi- 

 nity seems to be with S. punctatum, C. Koch. The type speci- 

 men of S. simlense is in the Kew Herbarium, and has not been 

 seen by Prof. Engler. 



