504 OLXVI. AROIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Arisema. 
Rootstock horizontal, rooting all over. Petiole 2-6 in., slender, green; leaflets 
4—6 in., dark green (with white along the middle in a drawing in Herb. Calcutt.), 
tips often shortly flliferous. Spathe 3 in., green; limb 14 in. long, erect, w H 
towards the centre, auricles dull yellow-green. Spadia (male) dull purple, narrowly 
conical, tapering into the erect naked yellow obtuse appendage. 
C. Raptatisecta. Leaflets whorled. (Sp. 23 to end.) 
* Spadix much longer than the spathe. 
23. A. neglectum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 26; Prodr. 36; 
moncecious, leaflets 4-7 sessile elliptic or oblanceolate cuspidately acam 
nate, tube of spathe cylindric base swollen, limb about as long ob ud 
cymbiform acuminate top incurved, appendage twice as long as the E 
erect then porrect and again erect. Engler Arac. 554. A. filiforme, . 
Enum. 334 (not of BL). A. Wightii, Bot. Mag. t. 5507 (not of Schott). 
WESTERN GHATS; from the Concan to the Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft, CEYLON; 
in the south part of the island, Thwaites, Huegel. ally 
Tuber globose. Leaves 1 or 2; petiole green or clouded; leaflets in 
broadest in the middle. Spathe 3—4 in., green ; limb open, margins not Chat of 
base not dilated. Spadix rather stout, appendage sessile, remarkably like tha 
A, tortuosum. 
** Spadix not longer than the spathe. 
+ Diccious (rarely monecious). Fem. spadix with neuters above the 
inflorescence, 
auricles, appendage erect subcylindric top rounded. Schott Melet, j fag 
Syn. 31; Prodr. 48; Blume Rumph.i.94; Kunth Enum. iu. 16; y Nep. 
t. 6446; Engler Arae. 561. Arum nepenthoides, Wall. Tent. ©” 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; alt. 9-11,000 ft.; Nepal, Wallich, Sikkim, T» 
&c. the dall 
Tuber globose, very large, Leaves 2; petiole peduncle and tube of spa 8 
yellowish clouded with dark streaks. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Plow 
6-8 in., tube 2-3 in., cylindric, base not swollen; limb 4 in., whitish within, 7 
without; auricles nearly 1 in. broad-green spotted with brown and wit t 
purplish-brown margin. Spadi« whitish ; appendage stipitate, much shorter er long 
spathe, contracted in the middle. Ovaries obovoid, contracted into are wing ô 
style, stigma simple.—Lateral leaflets sometimes lobed at the outer base, $70 
tendency to the pedate section. 
25. A. Leschenaultii, Blume Rumph i. 93; leaflets 5-11 an, 
late acuminate serrulate, tube of spathe cylindric as one e st 
suberect cymbiform long caudate-acuminate limb, appendage Schott 
cylindric or slightly clavate tip rounded. Kunth Enum. m. St , 0% 
Syn. Aroid. 30; Prodr. 51; Engler Arac. 552. A. papillosum, erubes- 
Schott Prodr. 46; Thw. Enum. 335; Bot. Mag. t. 5496 (excl. a": 
cens); P A. erubescens, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 258, A. Huege?» 
Syn. 27 ; Prodr. 44.—Arisema, Wall. Cat. 8921. 
WESTERN Guats, from the Concan southwards. ttled and 
Tuber large, globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft., usually mo 
