Ariscema."] CLXVI. AROIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 505 



banded with red and brown; leaflets 4-6 by 1^-2^ in. Sj^athe 3-3 in., green 

 with broad dark purple bauds ; tube narrow ; limb leaning forward, m rgins below 

 hardly recurved, tip straight obtusely acuminate, very variable in length. Spadix 

 4 in., nearly cylindric throughout, hardly stipitate j neuter fl. few short. 



26. A. consang-uineum, Sckott^ in Bonpland. (1859), 27; Prodr. 

 52 ; leaflets about 15 (10-20) narrowly linear-lanceolate with long capillary 

 tips, spathe green, limb about equalling the tube broadly ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate incurved with a long filiform tip margin recurved at the base, 

 appendage stout cylindric obtuse. Arisaema, Wall. Cat. 8915. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft. from Garwhal to Sikkim. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft. MUNNIPORE, Watt. 



Tuber depressed globose, 1-5 in. diam. Leaf solitary; petiole 1-4 ft., often 

 very stout aud peduncle mottled dark pink and red or brown; leaflets 3 16 in., 

 i-2 in. broad, filiform tips 1-3 in. Spathe 3-7 in., excluding the filiform tip, 

 margins more or less recurved below. Spadix hardly longer than the tube, 

 appendage subsessile with a few neuters at the base. 



27. A. concinnum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 27; Prodr. Aroid. 

 50 ; leaflets 7-11 subsessile narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate, 

 tube of spathe elongate cylindric, limb broadly ovate narrowed into a very 

 long decurved tail margins below not or slightly recurved, spadix usually 

 much shorter than the spathe, appendage very slender erect tipclavate 

 truncate, base not thickened. Engl. Arac. 556 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5914 ; N. E. 

 Br. in Jnurn. Linn. Soc. xviii. 254. A. alienatum & affine, Schott II. cc. 

 26, 27 ; 45-51. Arissema, Wall. Cat. 8920. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10,000 ft. from Garwhal to Bhotan. 



Tuber globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft. and peduncle green or mottled 

 with brown or purple ; leaflets 8-12 in. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Spathe 

 green or purple striped with white, tube 2-3 in. ; limb as long or shorter, open. 

 Spadix slender ; sometimes monoecious ; appendage exserted beyond the tube, 

 fern, with a few neuters at its base. Very near A. Leschenaultii, differing in the 

 slender appendage. A small state from Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ft., has more 

 cuneately obovate cuspidately caudate leaves. 



28. A. pulchrum, N.E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 252, t. 6 ; 

 leaflets 8-12 cuneately oblanceolate cuspidate, tube of spathe elongate 

 cylindric below infundibular and gaping above, limb broadly ovate sud- 

 denly narrowed into a decurved tail as long as the tube margins below 

 revolute, appendage stout cylindric erect rather thickened below, tip 

 rounded. 



INDIA (Hort. Bull.). 



Tuber globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole and peduncle stout, clouded and speckled 

 with pale red-brown ; leaflets 4-6 in., dark green above, subglaucous beneath. 

 Spathe 3 in., purplish striped with green, limb 2 in. broad. , Spadix much shorter 

 than the spathe, shortly exserted beyond the tube ; appendage with an elongate 

 ovoid base, aud a few scattered neuters. 



** Dioecious. Neuters 0. 



29. A. Jacquemontii, Blume Rumph. i. 95 ; leaflets 5-7 elliptic- or 

 obovate-lanceolate acuminate, tube of spathe narrow green, limb as 

 long or longer oblong- or ovate-lanceolate incurved narrowed into a 

 long acuminate erect or drooping tail, appendage elongate stipitate 

 narrowed from the conical or truncate base to the slender forward 

 curving tip. Decne. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 168, t. 168 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 



