Tas. 7150. 
ARISAIMA Fimpriatom. 
Native of the Malay Islands, 
Nat. Ord. AromEea.—Tribe ARINES. 
Genus Anisema, Mart.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iti. p. 965.) 
ARISEMA Jimbriatum ; foliis solitariis trisectis, foliolis late ovatis caudato- 
acuminatis, lateralibus obliquis, nervis supra profunde impressis arcuatis, 
petiolo levi, pedunculo elongato, spathe tubo elongato cylindraceo, lamina 
rabro-brunnea albo-lineata ovato-lanceolata erecta apice incurvo sub- 
caudato-acuminato, spadice monoica tenuissima appendice longe exserto 
floribus neutris capillaribus crinito pendulo, inflorescentia tubo spathz 
inclusa, feminea basilari floribus  sterilibus interpositis nullis, mase, 
anthers 3~4 stipitem coronantes, fem. ovarium sessile globosum in 
stylum brevem attenuatum, stigmate capitato. se 
A. fimbriatum, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. ii. p. 680 and 689, fig. 119; 
Regel Gartenft. 1886, p. 857, fig. 40: : 
_Arisema fimbriatum was first described by Dr. Masters, 
and well figured, in the Gardener’s Chronicle, from a plant 
which flowered in Mr. Bull’s nursery (received from Messrs. 
Sander, of St. Alban), in 1885, and was supposed to have 
Come from the Philippine Islands. As, however, specimens 
of the very same plant are preserved in the Kew Her- 
barium, which were sent by Mr. Curtis from Langkawi, an 
island off the west coast of the Malayan Peninsula, north 
of Penang, it may be reasonably concluded that the Philip- 
pine habitat wants confirmation. The nearest published 
ally of A. fimbriatum is A. album, N.E. Br. (Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. xviii., p. 247), of the Khasia Hills, which has a 
much smaller and white spathe, and longer petiolules to 
the leaflets. This last presents the remarkable anomaly 
of having the male flowers sometimes at the bottom of 
the spadix, with the females above them, and at others the 
Males and females are intermixed. As with A. fimbriatum 
the long exserted pendulous appendage of the spadix 
is crinite with filiform neuter flowers. A very similar 
plant to album, but with a green spathe, is in the Kew 
Herbarium, from the west coast of Siam, found on a 
mountain called Khao Loi Dao, at an elevation of seven 
- Decempen Ist, 1890. 
