that the tube of the spathe is entire, not convolute, which 
latter character brings it to Sauromatum. On the other 
hand, the leafing of S. brevipes being coetaneous with the 
flowering, is opposed to the character of Sauromatum, and 
suggests the expediency of the two genera being united. 
For this interesting plant I am indebted to the rich 
collection of the University Botanic Gardens of Cambridge, 
where it flowered in June, 1902. <A tuber of it was 
received from the Sikkim Himalaya, along with others of 
Remusatia vivipara, Thomsonia nepalensis, and Arisema 
speciosum. 
Mr. Lynch writes that he has a number of healthy small 
plants growing from daughter-tubers produced by the 
mother-tuber, which perished after flowering. He adds: 
“The formation of a number of small tubers upon the 
crown of the old one appears to be characteristic of the 
species, for even the tubers of the young plants, only 
three-eighths of an inch across, have already a conspicuous 
ring of tiny buds.” 
Descr.—Tuber small, oblately spherical, giving off 
coetaneously sub-sessile spathes, and a few long-petioled, 
pedatipartite leaves, and from the crown innumerable 
tubercles by which the species is propagated, as well as by — 
seed. Petiole four to fifteen inches long, erect, cylindric, 
rose-coloured, unspotted ; segments of limb five to nine, 
four to six inches long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate, bright green above, with a dark red costa. 
Spathes very shortly peduncled ; peduncles hy pogeeous ; 
tuke an inch and a half long, ampullaform, quite entire, 
pale yellowish green, faintly spotted with rose, globose 
below, an inch in diameter, then narrowed into a short, 
cylindric tube split at the throat and passing into the 
long, narrow, convolute, twisted, acuminate, arching limb, 
four to six inches long, of a pale greyish or rosy colour, 
bright red at the base and inside the throat. Spadi« 
_ as long as the spathe, slender; flowering part about an 
inch and a half long, enclosed in the inflated portion of 
the spathe, terminated by a very slender, terete, smooth, 
ascending appendix, which is rose-coloured towards the 
base, and orange-yellow above it to the obtuse tip. 
Ovaries crowded in an oblong mass at the base of the 
spadix, minutely ovoid, green. Anthers in a cylindric 
