504 CLXVI. ABoiDEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ariscema. . 



HootstocJc horizontal, rooting all over. Petiole 2-6 in., slender, green ; leaflets 

 4-6 in., dark green (with white along the middle in a drawing in Herb. Calcutt. ), 

 tips often shortly iiliferous. Spathe 3 in., green; limb 1^ in. long, erect, white 

 towards the centre, auricles dull yellow-green. Spadix (male) dull purple, narrowly 

 conical, tapering into the erect naked yellow obtuse appendage. 



C. RADIATISECTA. Leaflets whorled. (Sp. 23 to end.) 

 * Spadix rrmcli longer than the spathe. 



23. A. neglectum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 26; Prodr. 36; 



monoecious, leaflets 4-7 sessile elliptic or oblanceolate cuspidately acumi- 

 nate, tube of spathe cylindric base swollen, limb about as long oblong- 

 cymbiform acuminate top incurved, appendage twice as long as the spathe 

 erect then porrect and again erect. JZngler Arac. 554.. A. tiliforme, Thw. 

 Enum. 334 (not of SI). A. Wightii, Bot. Mag. t. 5507 (not of Schott). 



WESTERN GHATS ; from the Concan to the Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft. CEYLON; 

 in the south part of the island, Thwaites, Huegel. 



Tuber globose. Leaves 1 or 2 j petiole green or clouded; leaflets usually 

 broadest in the middle. Spathe 3-4 in., green ; limb open, margins not recurved, 

 base not dilated. Spadix rather stout, appendage sessile, remarkably like that of 

 A. tortuosum. 



** Spadix not longer than the spathe. 



f Dioecious (rarely monoecious). Fern, spadix with neuters above the 

 inflorescence. 



24. A. nepenthoides, Mart, in Flora (1831), 458 ; in Wall. Cat. 

 8919 ; leaflets 5-sessile elliptic or oblanceolate acuminate, tube of spathe 

 elongate, limb elliptic-ovate base dilated into two broad rounded recurved 

 auricles, appendage erect subcylindric top rounded. Schott Melet. i. 17 ; 

 Syn. 31 ; Prodr. 48 ; Blume Rumph. i. 94 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 16 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6446; Engler Arac. 551. Arum riepenthoides, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 

 26, t. 18. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; alt. 9-11,000 ft.; Nepal, Wallich, Sikkirn, J.V.H. 

 &c. 



Tuber globose, very large. Leaves 2 ; petiole peduncle and tube of spathe dull 

 yellowish clouded with dark streaks. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 

 6-8 in., tube 2-3 in., cylindric, base not swollen ; limb 4 in., whitish within, yellow 

 without ; auricles nearly 1 in. broad-green spotted with brown and with a broad 

 purplish.brown margin. Spadix whitish ; appendage stipitate, much shorter than the 

 spathe, contracted in the middle. Ovaries obovoid, contracted into a rather long 

 style, stigma simple. Lateral leaflets sometimes lobed at the outer base, showing a 

 tendency to the pedate section. 



25. A. Xieschenaultii, Blume Rumph i. 93 ; leaflets 5-11 oblanceo- 

 late acuminate serrulate, tube of spathe cylindric as long as the 

 suberect cymbiform long caudate-acuminate limb, appendage stout 

 cylindric or slightly clavate tip rounded. Kunth Enum. iii. 15 ; Schott 

 Syn. Aroid. 30 ; Prodr. 51 : Enaler Arac. 552. A. papillosum, Steud. ex 

 Schott Prodr. 46 ; Thw. Enum. 335 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5496 (excl. syn. erubes- 

 cens) ; P A. erubescens, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 258. A. Huegelii, Schott 

 Syn. 27 ; Prodr. 44. Ariseema, Wall. Cat. 8921. 



WESTERN GHATS, from the Concan southwards. 



Tuber large, globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft., usually mottled and 



