thousand feet, by the late Mr. Murton, formerly Superin- 
tendent of the Singapore Botanical Gardens. 
These three species form a subdivision of Schott’s section 
Trisecta of Arsiema, distinguished by the filiform neuter 
organs that clothe the slender appendage, a character 
that occurs in no other species of this very large genus, 
except the Sumatran 4. ornatum Miquel (Aun. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd.-Bat. vol. iii. p. 79, t. 3) which belongs to_the section 
with pedatisect leaves. 
A. fimbriatum has been cultivated at Kew since 1887, 
and flowers annually about midsummer; the specimen 
figured was sent by Messrs. Veitch. — 
Descr. Leaf solitary (and peduncle), clothed at the 
base with linear-oblong membranous sheaths, trisect ; 
leaflets five to seven inches long, very shortly petiolulate, 
broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate, bright green above 
with very many and deeply sunk nerves, very pale 
beneath; petiole six to ten inches long, streaked with pale 
red. Pedunele as long as the petiole, and of the same colour. 
Spathe ten inches long ; tube two and a half inches long, 
about two-thirds of an inch diameter ; cylindric, closely 
striped with dark brown and white ; lamina ovate lan- 
ceolate, erect with a decurved caudate-acuminate tip, 
purple-brown streaked with white. Spadiz very slender, 
its decurved filiform appendix longer than the spathe, the 
exserted portion red-brown, and clothed with filiform 
neuter organs nearly an inch long, included portion with 
Scattered green neuter organs a quarter of an inch long. 
Male flowers of scattered anthers clustered in threes and 
fours on the top of a stout stipes. Female flowers sub- 
globose one-celled crowded ovaries at the very base of the 
_ Spadix.—J, D. H, . 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens :—enlarged. 
