Tas, 5914. 
ARIS ARMA concrinnoum. 
Native of Sikkim Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. AromEa.—§ ARISAREA. 
Genus ArtsaMma, Martius ; (Schott. Prod. Syst. Aroid,, p. 24). 
ARISEMA concinnum ; tubere subspherico superne radiculoso, scapo solitario 
folio breviore, basi vaginato unifoliato, folio digitatim, 9-11-foliolato, 
foliolis elongato-ovalibus utrinque attenuatis v. apice caudato-acumi- 
natis, spatha inferne tubulosa fauce aperta lamina longe acuminata 
decurva longitudinaliter (masc.) ex albo et cerulescenti purpureo vel 
(fem.), viridulo striata, spadice subincluso apice truncato vix clayato 
_ subcapitato. 
ARISEMA concinnum, Schott in Bonplandia, 1859, vol. xxvii.; Prod. Syst. 
Aroid., p. 50. 
“Nearly allied to Arisema papillosum, Schott, figured in the 
Botanical Magazine (Tab. 5496), but a more elegant species, 
and technically belonging to a different section, marked by 
the form of the appendix of the spadix, which is clavate in 
A. papillosum, and scarcely thickened upwards in our plant. 
The spathes, purple and white in the male plant, green and 
white in the female, are graceful in form and attractive in 
colour. They expand in spring, our figure being from a 
specimen which flowered last April in the Royal Gardens, 
introduced by Mr. Gammie from the Sikkim Himalaya, where 
this species was discovered by Dr. Hooker in 1845, growing 
in forests at an elevation of 6-10,000 feet. The colour of 
the spathe and the spadix of the male plant are taken from a 
drawing made under the late Mr. Cathcart’s superintendence, 
which has been authenticated by Dr. Schott. 
Descr. Leaf solitary; petiole erect, one to two feet 
long, sheathing the scape below, and sheathed at the base 
by two or three successively longer, membranous, closely 
JuLY lst, 1871. 
