, Tas, 5964. 
ARISEMA speciosum. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya Mountains. 
Nat. Ord, Aromprm—S ArisAarE&. 
Genus, Arismma, Mart. ; (Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid., p. 24). 
Ariszma (Trisecta) speciosum ; folio solitario 3-foliolato, petiolo variegato, 
foliolis crassiuscule petiolulatis late ovato-cordatis caudato-acuminatis 
rubro-marginatis, pedunculo petiolo breviore, spatha purpurea late 
elliptico-ovata caudato-acuminata albo-vittata, appendice cylindracea 
inferne paulo incrassata in stipitem brevem attenuata apice subrepente 
in caudam longissimam capillarem flexuosam spatha pluries longiorem 
producta ovoideo ovario, stigmate subsessili, ovulis 3 basilaribus. 
ARIS EMA speciosum, Martius in Flora 1831, p. 458; Schott Prodr. Syst. 
Aroid., p. 27. 
The moist forests of the temperate regions of the Himalaya 
abound in large, and even gigantic species of terrestrial Aroids, 
chiefly belonging to the genus Arisema; of these, some 
twenty inhabit the provinces of Nepal and Sikkim, flowering in 
the spring, and exciting the attention of the most careless ob- 
server by their brilliant colouring in some cases, and by their 
curious forms in all. ‘Two were figured in last year’s volume 
of the Magazine (4. curvatum, Tab. 5931, and A. concinnum, 
Tab. 5914), both sent by Mr. Gammie (formerly of Kew, and 
now superintendent of the Sikkim Cinchona Plantations). 
To this energetic officer we owe the introduction of several 
more, and amongst them, of that here figured, which flowered 
in the Royal Gardens in March of the present year. Un- 
fortunately, the genus is diccious, and no opportunity has 
presented itself of fertilizing the females, which alone have 
appeared. The tubers may, however, be kept in a cold frame 
throughout the winter, like those of any other plant of 
similar habits and constitution. 
The wonderful flexuous tail to the spadix, which I have 
MAY Ist, 1872. 
