Árisema.) CLXVI. AROIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 505 
banded with red and brown; leaflets 4-6 by 14-23 in. Spathe 3-8 in., green 
mith broad dark purple bands; tube narrow; limb leaning forward, margins below 
irdly recurved, tip straight obtusely acuminate, very variable in length. Spadia 
m., nearly cylindric throughout, hardly stipitate ; neuter fl. few short. 
26. A. consanguineum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 97; Prodr. 
33s leaflets about 15 (10-20) narrowly linear-lanceolate with long capillary 
ips, spathe green, limb about equalling the tube broadly ovate or ovate- 
deeolate.incurved with a long filiform tip margin recurved at the base, 
*Ppendage stout cylindric obtuse.—Ariswma, Wall. Cat. 8915. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft. from Garwhal to Sikkim. KHASIA 
Hits, alt. 4-6000 ft. Munnrpore, Watt, 
ber depressed globose, 1-5 in. diam. Leaf solitary; petiole 1-4 ft., often 
"wr stout. and peduncle mottled dark pink and red or brown; leaflets 3-16 in., 
žin, broad, filiform tips 1-3 in. Spathe 3-7 in., excluding the filiform tip, 
margins more or less recurved below. Spadia# hardly longer than the tube, 
*PPendage subsessile with a few neuters at the base. 
woe A. concinnum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 27; Prodr. Avoid. 
i leaflets 7-11 subsessile narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate, 
ube of spathe elongate cylindric, limb broadly ovate narrowed into a very 
91g decurved tail margins below not or slightly recurved, spadix usually 
much shorter than the spathe, appendage very slender erect tip clavate 
pacate, base not thickened. Engl. Arac. 556; Bot. Mag. t. 5914; N. E. 
sot Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 254, A. alienatum & affine, Schott ll. cc. 
27; 45-51.—Arisema, Wall. Cat. 8920. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft. from Garwhal to Bhotan. 
"a globose. Leaf solitary; petiole 1-2 ft. and peduncle green or mottled 
rown or purple; leaflets 8-12 in. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 
nd TE purple striped with white, tube 2-3 in. ; limb as long or shorter, open. 
fe V slender; sometimes moneecious; appendage exserted beyond the tube, 
™ With a few neuters at its base.—Very near A. Leschenaultii, differing in the 
hae appendage. A small state from Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ft., has more 
tely obovate cuspidately caudate leaves, 
lian A. pulchrum, N.E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 252, t. 6; 
pets 8-19 cuneately oblanceolate cuspidate, tube of spathe elongate 
Ze below infundibular and gaping above, limb broadly ovate sud- 
uly narrowed into a decurved tail as long as the tube margins below 
aj’ SPPendage stout cylindric erect rather thickened below, tip 
e 
t n 2 
Void ine Pathe, shortly exserted beyond the tube; appendage with an elongate 
+ e . 
Diæcious. Neuters 0. 
3. A. Jac i. 95; leaflets 5-7 elliptio- or 
` ue ume Rumph. i. 95; leafle p 
perte lenceolate Seit tube of Ppathe narrow green, limb as 
lag s longer oblong- or ovate-lanceolate incurved narrowed into a 
i "d acuminate erect or drooping tail, appendage elongate stipitate 
ore Om the conical or truncate base to the slender forward 
Rg tip, Decne, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 168, t. 168; Kunth Enum. lll. 
