Árisema.] CLXVI. AROIDEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 499 
,"* Appendage much longer than the spathe, tapering into a very long 
orm pendulous tip. 
t Appendage naked. 
„a Limb of spathe broad, rounded truncate retuse or 9-lobed.—All 
diecious, 
7. A. verrucosum, Schott ix (str. Bot. Wochenbl. (1857) 341; 
Prodr, 29 ; leaf solitary, petiole sheath and peduncle warted, leaflets sessile 
thomboidly orbicular or lateral ovate, limb of spathe very broad obcordate 
cuspidately acuminate decurved, base of appendage dilated into a lobed 
Engler Arac. 537. 
EASTERN TEMPERATE Himataya, alt. 8-11,000 ft., J.D.H. Clarke. 
, Tuber large, depressed, ` Petiole 8-10 in., very stout, dull dark green, studded 
with minute warts; leaflets 2-7 in., dark-purple beneath, margins waved purplish, 
dnd, diout beneath. Peduncle like the petiole. Spathe 5-7 in., tube white 
ly striped with dark purple ; limb twice to five times as broad, reticulated with 
White and dark purple; apex 3-2 in. long. Spadiz stout shortly stipitate, dark 
Purple, base intruded, narrowed above it into a fusiform body that tapers into an 
‘xserted thread 12-18 in. long or more.—Very near to A. utile, from which the 
Warted petiole and peduncle distinguish it, The colours are taken from a drawing 
my Own, and no doubt vary much. 
Eg à. Grifüthii, Schott Syn. Aroid. 26; Prodr. 54; leaves 2, 
flets sessile all rhombic-orbicular acuminate crenate, limb of spathe 
vu many times broader than the tube which it overhangs deeply 
of oded, with a long linear interposed tail that embraces the filiform tail 
pa appendage. Engler Arae. 538; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 
1 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6491. A. Hookerianum, Schott in (str. Bot. Wochen. 
(1857) 334; Prodr. 30. A. Hookeri, Schott Gen. Aroid. t. 6, f. 11-19. 
~ oe 
ell Bp. Grif. Itin. Notes, 201, No. 1179. 
0 t LEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft. Buotan, alt. 
be . 
ind depressed, 3-5 in. diam, Petiole as thick as the middle finger, green, 
Ms | leaflets 6-10 in., sometimes broader than long, margins faintly yellow, 
2135 deeply sunk, Peduncle much shorter than the petiole. Tube of spathe 
ble £^ Purple ribbed with white; limb 5-8 in. broad, inenrved, head rounde , 
tai] Thing two broad dull violet flaps, reticulate with green; sinus 2—3 in. deep 5 
from m., purple, Spadix stout ; appendage purple, stipitate, suddenly narrowe 
long x broad disciform lobed intruded base into a tortuous capillary tail 1-3 ft. 
12,009 «able in colour and size. Clarke observes that in ascending from 8000 to 
, ~ € Spathe varies from 6-8 in. broad curved and ridged, to 1 in. broa 
Karel y di : ) ` i oad 
vith Grint! with obscure ridges; but possibly other species were confounde 
mA. util i odr. Aroid. 30; Bot. Mag. t. 6474; 
leaves solitary, lector le E ovate or obovate crenute, limb of 
tw m broadly obcordate or obovate oblong retuse or 2-lobed with a short 
ar sod tail that embraces the filiform tail of the appendage. Engler 
537 and Ic. ined, No. 55. 
Si trame HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 7500 ft, Clarke, eastwards to 
alt. 913,000 ft., J. ).H., &c. 
leaves nAller plant than A. Griffith with the same habit, but with pale green 
broad undulate golden margins and a much narrower limb of the spathe 4 in. 
» Which is not longer than the tube, is red brown or purplish and coarsely 
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