Tas. 4388, 
ARISAAMA Mourrayt. 
Dr. Murray's Arisema. 
Nat. Ord. AnoipE®.—Monacta MoNANDRIA. 
‘en. Char. Spatha basi convoluta. Spadix superne nudus, inferne unisexualis 
raro androgynus: organa rudimentaria superposita aut plerumque nulla, An- 
there in filamentis distinctis verticillate, loculis aut discretis aut appositis, poro 
aut rima subtransversali dehiscentibus. Ovaria libera, unilocularia, ovulis 2—6 
raro pluribus basilaribus erectis. Styli breves aut nulli. Stigmata indivisa. 
Bacce mono- aut oligo-sperme. Semina albuminosa. Bi. 
Axisama Murrayi ; foliis peltatisectis, segmentis 5-6 ovato-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis copiose penninerviis nervoque intramarginali, spathe parte inferiore 
in tubum latum connata (viridi) superiore ovata convexa subcucullata 
acuminulata alba macula transverse rubra, spadice subulato flexuoso vix 
spathz tubo longiore. 
Arum Murrayi. Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay. p. 229. 
Few of the droidee are more worthy of cultivation than the 
present, of which tubers were sent to us from Bombay, by 
our valued friend Mr. Law, of Tanna. It is described 
in the work above quoted, where Mr. Law observes he has fre- 
quently met with it in the valleys of the Bandsda hills, to the 
south-west of Surat. Reared in the stove, it sends up, in early 
Spring, first the very delicate inflorescence and afterwards the 
leaves. Of the genus Arisema, thirty-one species are noticed 
by Blume, in the first volume of “Rumphia;” twenty-two 
are Asiatic, six are found in North America and two in 
Brazil. 
Descr. “ Zxders about the size of small potatos.” Scape a 
foot and more long, terete, purplish, below sheathed, terminated 
above by a very delicate and handsome spatha, which has its 
lower half green and convolute into a tube (including the spadix); 
the upper half of the most delicate white, with a red ring round 
the mouth, ovate, convex, inclined over the mouth, almost 
cucullate, faintly striated, terminated by a very narrow twisted 
pont. Spadix subulate, longer than the tube of the spatha, 
AUGUST Ist, 1848. 
