Tab. 5509. 

 ARUM Pal^estinum. 



Jerusalem Arum. 



Nat. Ord. Aroide^e. — Mon(ecia Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 2432.) 



Arum Palastinum ; folio late hastato-aagittato lobo iatermedio late ovato-oblongo 

 aubacuto lateralibus minoribus cousimilibus obtusiuaculis, pedunculo petiolo 

 breviore, spatha} tubo brevi intus viridi lamina oblongo-lanceolata apice 

 obtuae attenuata atro-purpurea immaculata, appendice obsolete stipitato- 

 elongato cylindraceo obtuso atro-purpureo, organis neutris supra stamina 

 et inter stamina et ovaria e basi late subulatis purpureis. 



Arum Palaestinum. Boi&s. Biagnos. v. VS. p. 6. Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. 79. 



A singular though not showy plant, discovered by the distin- 

 guished Genevan botanist and traveller M. Boissier, near Jeru- 

 salem, from whence also the plant here figured was procured by 

 Messrs. Veitch, of the Royal Exotic Nursery. _ Except in the 

 broader leaves, our specimen agrees perfectly with Boissier and 

 Schott's descriptions, as also with a plant which flowered in the 

 Imperial Garden of Schonbrunn, and of which the late Dr. Schott 

 has kindly communicated a dried specimen under this name. 



Descr. Tuber not described. Leaf appearing about the same 

 time as the flower, six inches long, as broad across the lobes, 

 cordate, hastate ; central and lateral lobes broadly ovate- oblong, 

 hardly acute; texture subcoriaceous, bright-green. Peduncle 

 shorter than the petiole. Spatha about as long as the leaf, its 

 sheath broad, short, green externally and internally ; blade elon- 

 gate, lanceolate-oblong, gradually narrowed to a rather broad 

 subacute point ; dirty-green externally, black-purple within, not 

 spotted. Spadix shorter than the spatha. Ovaries forming 

 a short, crowded, subcylindric cone, green, with purple stigmas, 

 horizontal. Anthers broadly oblong, shortly stipitate, with short 

 subterminal slits. Neuter organs both above and below the 

 anthers, subulate, with very broad bases, purple. Appendix four 

 may 1st, 1865. 



