Árisema.) CLXVI. AROIDEa. (J. D. Hooker.) 503 
19. A. Wrayi, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. (1887) 205; leaves 1-3, leaflets 
petiolulate narrowly elliptic-lanceolate tips apiculate or filiform, tube 
spathe open as long or longer, limb ovate obtusely acuminate dilated at 
€ base with two large revolute auricles, appendage very long filiform 
ewe N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1889) ii. 136; Bot. Mag. 
Perak, Wray; Larut, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini. 
Tuber subglobose, rooting all over. Petiole 12-18 in. and petiolules mottled 
green and white and dotted with red; leaflets 6-10 by 1-2 in., dark green, median 
longest with petiolule 1-2} in. Peduncle taller than the petiole, slender. Spathe 
My erect; limb pale yellow green or lilac with darker stripes. Spadia 
"ty slender; fem. with scattered didymous bicuspidate anthers on long filaments 
Wie base of the appendage. Stigma penicillate. 
= Appendage of spadix included or shortly exserted. 
p 9. A, decipiens, Schott in @Œstr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1857) 373; 
rodr, 34; dicecious, leaves 2, leaflets 5-7 elliptic-lanceolate caudate- 
ah te, lateral sessile on a common petiolule, median long-petiolulate, 
á of spathe as long as the lanceolate caudate incurved limb, tailas long 
: the rest of the spathe, appendage hardly longer than the tube sub- 
"nne Straight. Engler Arac. 542; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 
Kaasta Hirzs, alt, 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
et dotstock horizontal, rooting, as thick as the thumb. Petiole 12-16 in., slender, 
‘oa Sery long, mottled ; leaflets 6-10 in.; petiolule of median 1-1} in. ; lateral 
tail whieh ; Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 4-5 in., excluding the filiform 
ich is 3-5 in., dull purple; lower margins not recurved. Spadia slender; 
Rises stipitate, cylindric, erect, rather thickened towards the base; male fl. 
“e—The Javan habitat is an error. 
el x flavum, Schott Prodr. 40; monecious, leaves 2, leaflets 9-11, 
th Sessile oblong or lanceolate acuminate, median sessile or petiolulate, 
lon S Very short, limb ovate cuspidate or acuminate as long or twice as 
ah, the Subhemispheric tube, base not recurved, spadix included, 
in Ga Very short clavate. Engler Arac. 548. A. abbreviatum, Schott 
No.7 " Bot. Zeitschr. (1857) 882; Prodr. 40; Engler l. c., and Je, ined. 
Foray. R Ochafa flava, Schott Syn. 24; Gen. Aroid. App. Arum flavum, 
“©. Ægypt. Arab. 157. | 
Ry Wee Me HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 5-9000 ft., from Kashmir to 
Arabia, ` CHUMBI; N.E. of Sikkim, King’s Collector.—DisTRIB. Affghanistan, 
ipai "ck globose, Petiole 8-12 in., sheath usually very long; leaflets 2-4 in. 
em, ing op» green, yellow, or the limb faintly purple below. Spadiz conical ; 
inf ofa few rows of closely packed globose ovaries, in close contact with the 
top of whi Which consists of a most dense layer of subsessile connate anthers, from the 
nt, Wee emerges the appendage, which is about à in. long.—A highly curious 
ween, P^ dix quite unlike that of any congener. I find no difference whatever 
ten d 
the Himalayan and Arabian specimens. 
bech Scortechini, Hook. f.; dicecious, leaf solitary, leaflets 3—5 
lings; acuminate, lateral subsessile, median petiolulate, tube of spathe 
$ limb ovate or ovate-lanceolate erect, tip shortly filiferous, base 
k two large rounded spreading auricles. 
‘NG, Curtis, PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
