ag ; 
Tas. 7700. 
ARIS AMA rravoum. 
Native of the Western Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. ARorpE#,—Tribe ARINEX. 
Genus Ariszma, Mart. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 965. 
Anisaima (Pedatisecta) flavum ; monoicum, rhizomate globoso, vaginis appres- 
sis petiolisque, pallide rufo-brunneis striatis, foliis binis atisectis, 
foliolis 7-11 sessilibus vel petiolulatis oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis cuspidatisve lete virescentibus basi cuneatis intermedio 
majore, vagina elongata, pedunculo petiolo subsequilongo viridi, spathe 
viridis intus purpureo-fasciate tubo subgloboso cancellato, limbo tubo 
longiore v. equilongo late ovato v. orbiculari incurvo cuspidato, cuspide 
erecto v. recurvo marginibus basi vix recurvis, spadice subsessili brevi 
oblongo v. conico incluso, ovariis pauci- v. multi-seriatis obovoideo- 
lobosis, stigmate oe antheris dense congestis obovoideis, appen- 
dice brevi clavato, baccis cuneato-obovoideis. 
A. flavum, Schott, Prodr, Syst. Aroid. p. 40. Engler, Arac. in Alph. & Cas. 
DO. Monog. Phan. vol. ii. p. 548. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 503. 
A. abbreviatum, Schott in (ster. Bot, Zeitschr. 1857, p. 382; Prodr. p. 39. 
Engler, l.c. et Ic. ined. No. 7. . 
Docuara flava, Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 24; Gen. Aroid. App. 
Arum flavum, Forsk. Fl. Agypt. Arab. p. 157. 
Arisema flavum is a remarkably variable plant, from six 
inches to nearly twenty-four inches in height, with a root- 
stock from the size of a small nut to that of a walnut; a 
stem sometimes as thick as the thumb; leaves four to 
nearly twelve inches span, with seven to eleven sessile or 
petiolulate leaflets varying greatly in breadth ; a spathe one 
to three inches long, of a green to yellow colour. The 
ovaries are often numerous, ripening into an oblong 
infructescence sometimes three inches long and two in 
diameter. Its Himalayan distribution is a wide one, from 
Garwhal, at an elevation of eight thousand to nine thousand 
feet, to Kashmir at six thousand five hundred feet, and in 
the Kurrum Valley (Afghanistan) at seven thousand to 
nine thousand feet. It has’ not been collected at any 
locality between that last given and Arabia, where it was 
discovered by Forskil in 1763. The latter author de- 
scribes it as 2-8-leaved, with a yellow spathe two inches 
long, and spadix an inch long. : 
Frpruary Ist, 1900. 
