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ARISAEMA Fargssn. 
China. 
AraceaE. Tribe AROIDEAE. 
ArIsaEMA, Mart. ; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 965. 
Arisaema Fargesii, Buchet in Lecomte, Notul. Syst. vol. i. p. 371 (1911); 
species A. speciosum, Mart., simulans ; spadice incluso obtuso distinguitur. 
Herba tuberosa. Tuber depresso-globosum. Cataphylla brunnea, superne 
attenuata, obtusa vel acuta. Folia solitaria, synanthia, 3-foliolata, 
glabra; foliola patentia, brevissime petiolulata, medium subrotundatum, 
cuspidatum, 28 cm. longum; lateralia quam medium paullo breviora, 
inaequilateralia ; petiolus quam lamina sesquilongior, carnosus. Pedun- 
culus erectus, carnosus, 15 cm. altus. Spatha purpurea, vittis pallidis 
lineata ; tubus subcylindricus, 8 cm. longus, 2 cm. latus ; limbus oblongo- 
deltoideus, longe acuminatus, galeatus, fauce valde auriculatus, 14 em, 
longus, 6 cm. latus. Spadizx unisexualis, 11 cm. longus; appendix 
inclusa, 8 em. longa, supra flores contracta, deinde anguste lanceolata, 
obtusa, brunnea; flores foeminei basi congesti ; ovarium angulatum, apice 
leviter hemisphericum ; stylus brevissimus, crassus ; stigma penicillatum ; 
ovula pauca.—C,. H. Wricur. 
Arisaema Fargesii was described by Mr. Buchet from 
specimens bearing male flowers only, collected at Hong- 
lan-sin, at an altitude of 6,000-7 ,000 feet, in the district 
of Tchen-keou-tin, in the province of Szechuan, but he 
refers to the same species a plant with female flowers, 
which he has seen growing in the collection of Mr. 
Maurice de Vilmorin, who had received it from Szechuan. 
This plant was larger in all its parts than the male plant 
upon which the original description was based, and 
agrees with the plant here figured, which was received 
at Kew in 1917 from Mr. de Vilmorin and flowered in 
May, 1919. The leaves of J. Fargesii resemble those of 
A, ringens, Schott, which differs in having a spathe with 
even more pronounced auricles but with a shorter apex. 
In colour, the spathe is like that of A. speciosum, Mart., 
but in this the spadix is produced into a long filiform 
appendix much longer than the spathe. The spathe in 
JuLy-Sepremperr, 1920 
