Ariscema.'] CLXVI. AROIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 503 



19. A. Wrayi, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. (1887) 205 ; leaves 1-3, leaflets 

 5-9 petiolnlate narrowly elliptic-lanceolate tips apiculate or filiform, tube 

 of spathe open as long or longer, limb ovate obtusely acuminate dilated at 

 the base with two large revolute auricles, appendage very long filiform 

 pendulous. N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1889) ii. 136; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7105. 



PERAK, Wray, Larut, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini. 



Tuber subglobose, rooting all over. Petiole 12-18 in. and pctiolules mottled 

 green and white and dotted with red; leaflets 6-10 by 1-2 in., dark green, median 

 longest with petiolule 1 2-g- in. Peduncle taller than the petiole, slender. Spathe 

 5-7 in., erect ; limb pale yellow green or lilac with darker stripes. Spadix 

 very slender ; fern, with scattered didymous bicuspidate anthers on long filaments 

 on the base of the appendage. Stigma penicillate. 



** Appendage of spadix included or shortly exserted. 



20. A. decipiens, ScJiott in (Estr. Bot. ZeitscJir. (1857) 373; 

 Prodr. 34 ; dioecious, leaves 2, leaflets 5-7 elliptic-lanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate, lateral sessile on a common petiolule, median long-petiolulate, 

 tube of spathe as long as the lanceolate caudate incurved limb, tail as long 

 as the rest of the spathe, appendage hardly longer than the tube sub- 

 truncate straight. Engler Arac. 542 ; JV. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 

 251. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Eootstock' horizontal, rooting, as thick as the thumb. Petiole 12 16 in., slender,, 

 sheaths very long, mottled ; leaflets 6-10 in. ; petiolule of median 1-1^ in. ; lateral 

 divaricate. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 4- 5 in., excluding the filiform 

 tail which is 35 in., dull purple; lower margins not recurved. Spadix slender; 

 appendage stipitate, cylindric, erect, rather thickened towards the base j male fl. 

 subsessile. The Javan habitat is an error. 



21. A. fiavum, ScJiott Prodr. 40 ; monoecious, leaves 2, leaflets 9-11, 

 lateral sessile oblong or lanceolate acuminate, median sessile or petioiulate, 

 spathe very short, limb ovate cuspidate or acuminate as long or twice as 

 long as the subhemispheric tube, base not recurved, spadix included, 

 appendix very short clavate. Engler Arac. 548. A. abbreviatum, Schott 

 in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1857) 382 ; Prodr. 40 ; Engler I. c., and Ic. ined. 

 No. 7. Dochafa flava, Schott Syn. 24; Gen. Aroid. App. Arum flavum, 

 Forsk. Fl. JEgypt. Arab. 157. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 5-9000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. CHUMBI; N.E. of Sikkim, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Aftghauistan, 

 Arabia. 



Eootstock globose. Petiole 8-12 in., sheath usually very long ; leaflets 2-4 in. 

 Spathe 1-2 in., green, yellow, or the limb faintly purple below. Spadix conical j 

 fern. infl. of a few rows of closely packed globose ovaries, in close contact with the 

 male infl., which consists of a most dense layer of subsessile connate anthers, from the 

 top of which emerges the appendage, which is about | in. long. A highly curious 

 plant, the spadix quite unlike that of any congener. I find no difference whatever 

 between the Himalayan and Arabian specimens. 



22. A. Scortechini, Hook. f. ; dioecious, leaf solitary, leaflets 3-5 

 lanceolate acuminate, lateral subsessile, median petioiulate, tube of spathe 

 cylindric, limb ovate or ovate-lanceolate erect, tip shortly filiferous, base 

 dilated into two large rounded spreading auricles. 



PENANG, Curtis. PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



