506 JCLXVI. AEOIDE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) {Ariscema. 



16 ; Schott Syn. Aroid. 31 ; Syst. 43 ; Engl. Arac. 555. A. cornutum, 

 Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 27 ; Prodr. 48 ; Engler I c. 557. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmiri alt. 7-8000 to Bhotan, alt. 10-12,000 

 ft. 



Tuber subglobose. Leaves solitary or 2 ; petiole ^-3 ft., stout or slender ; 

 leaflets 26 by 1 2 in., almost caudate-acuminate but not filiferous. Spathe 3-5 

 in., striped with white, margins narrowly recurved below, tip often thread-like 

 -3 in. long. Appendage stipitate, sometimes with a truncate base, at others slender 

 from an ellipsoid base. Very variable in size. In a specimen apparently of this 

 species from Sikkim and another from Kumaon (Duthie, 6063) the appendage 

 is 4 in. quite as long as the limb of the spathe (without its long point). The 

 spathe is incurved above the middle and terminates in a very long erect horn. 



30. A. exile, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 26; Prodr. 42; leaflets 

 5-11 narrowly oblanceolate finely acuminate, spathe very narrow, tube 

 elongate, limb as long lanceolate narrowed into a long thread, appendage 

 stipitate very slender filiform as long as the tube of the spathe. JEngler 

 Arac. 554. Arisaema, Wall. Cat. 8918. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. 



Tuber small. Leaves solitary or 2; petiole 8-26 in., very slender; leaflets 

 3-6 in., minutely erose. Peduncle longer than the petiole. Spathe 4 in., limb hardly 

 broader than the tube, pale green striped with white, slightly incurved, margins 

 hardly recurved below, filiform tip 1-3 in. Spadix very slender j appendage 

 stipitate, base ovoid. 



31. A. erubescens, Schott Meletem.i. 17; Syn. 30; Prodr. 53; 

 leaflets 9-12 narrowly oblanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, tube of 

 pink spathe cylindric, limb oblong or ovate-oblong or -lanceolate incurved 

 narrowed into a long filiform tail, margins below recurved, appendage 

 stout erect subcylindric from an elongate ovoid base, tip rounded. Blume 

 Humph, i. 93; Kunth E um. iii. 16; Engler Arac. 557. A. vituperatum, 

 Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 28. Arum erubescens, Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 

 30, t. 135. Arisaema, Wall. Gat. 8917. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim 6-8000 ft., J.D.H. 



Tuber subglobose. Leaf solitary; petiole 12-18 in., and peduncle pale rose-colrd., 

 streaked with red in bars ; leaflets 5-7 in., margins undulate, tips not filiferous. 

 Spathe about 4 in., excluding the filiform tail, white striped with rose ; tube longer 

 than the incurved rather broader limb. Appendage hardly exserted beyond the 

 tube pale. Differs from A. exile chiefly in the stout short appendage. 



32. A. echinatum, Schott Meletem. i. 17 ; Prodr. 49 ; leaflets 7-9 

 narrowly lanceolate caudate -acuminate, tnbe of green spathe infundibular, 

 limb ovate-lanceolate incurved tapering into a very long pendulous tail 

 margins below revolute, appendage short cylindric top truncate rugose or 

 echinulate. Blume Rumph. i. 94; Kunth Enum. iii. 16; Engler Arac. 555 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8916. Arum echinatum, Wall, PI. As. Ear. ii'. 30, t. 136. 

 Pythonium, sp. Griff. Itin. Notes 176 ; Notul. iii. 156 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 

 163. 



TBMPEKATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 9-11,000 ft. J.D.H. ; 

 Bhotan, Griffith. 



Tuber small, globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 10-18 in., and peduncle all green 

 or streaked with red-brown, leaflets 6-12 in. Spathe 6-10 in., greenish, striped with 

 white and brown, or purple within, tail longer than the limb and tube. Spadix 

 hardly exserted ; appendage stipitate, contracted in the middle, white streaked with 

 purple, base rather swollen rounded, tip green. 



