Typkonium.'] CLXVI. AROIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 511 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal and Kumaon, alt. 6-8000 ft, Wallich, &c. 

 SIKZIM, alt. 7-10,003 ft. TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-11,000 ft., from Simla to 

 Bhotan. 



Tuber globose. Leaves extremely variable, 3-5 in. long, and as much across the 

 lobes which vary from 3-7, from oblong to narrowly linear, and spread variously ; 

 petiole 3-12 in. Peduncle 2-9 in. Spathe erect, 2-8 in., acuminate, purplish. 

 Appendage stout or slender. 



*** Limb of spathe narrowed from an ovate or lanceolate short base 

 into a Ion a tail. 



6. T. brevipes. Hook. f. ; leaves pedately 5-7-partite, segments 

 lanceolate long-acuminate, peduncle very short, spathe lanceolate pro- 

 duced into a narrow linear tail, neuters above the fern. infl. with clavate 

 tips, appendage very long and slender, base not thickened. T. pedatum, 

 Schott in CEstr. Sot. Wochenbl. (1857) 262 (in part). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; near Darjeeling, alt. 7-3000 ft., on rocks and tree trunks, 

 J.D.K., Clarice, Gammie. 



Tuber depressed globose. Leaves membranous ; segments 2-10 by ^-1 in. ; 

 petiole 4-12 in. Peduncle -f in. Spathe with a tumid ellipsoid tube f in. long, 

 limb 4| in. long by \ in. broad, membranous. Neuters yellow on capillary stalks ; 

 appendage as long as the spathe very slender. A curious species. I have seen but 

 one spathe, collected by Mr. Gammie. 



7. T. bulbiferum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. (1852) 113 ; leaves 

 triangular-hastate sagittate or cordate, spathe very slender from a short 

 lanceolate base, neuters above the fem. infl. linear erect, appendage equal- 

 ling the spathe filiform base rounded or cuneate. Schott Prodr. 106; 

 Engler Arac. 611 ; Ic. ined. n. 129 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 258. 



SOUTHERN CONCAN, Stocks, Ac. 



Tuber -i | in. Leaves 2-4 in. long and often as broad across the " lobes, 

 angles acute ; petiole 5-6 in., slender, usually with a pisiform tuber at the top. 

 Peduncle 1-2^ in. Spathe pale rose, 3-5 in., convolute. Spadix as long, slender, 

 yellow ; neuters in one series fleshy, rather incurved, yellow (acinaciform, Stocks). 



8. T. pedatum, Schott. in CEstr. Sot. Wochenbl. (1857) 262 (in part) ; 

 Prodr. 108 (non Engler) ; leaves pedatisect, segments lanceolate, spathe 

 linear acuminate, neuters above the fem. infl. many crowded filiform erect, 

 appendage slender, base not thickened. N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xviii. 260. 



PEGU, McLelland. 



Leaves about 4 in. broad ; segments 7, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 by 

 in., outer smaller, Peduncle If in. Spathe 2% in., longer than the spadix. 

 Founded on a single specimen. As pointed out by Mr. Brown, the Sikkim plant 

 referred to this by Schott is another species (T. brevipes, H. f.), and -that of Engler 

 (Arac. 613) is T. fallax, N. E. Br., a native of Java. 



9. T. cuspidatum, Blume Cat. Hort. Suit. 101 ; Rumph. i. 133, 

 t. 10, f. 1-3; leaves sagittateiy cordately or hastately ovate oblong or 

 lanceolate, limb of spathe with a short lanceolate base produced into 

 a very long slender tail, lower neuters above the fem. infl. clavate upper 

 subulate, appendage produced into a long filiform tail equalling the spathe 

 base conical. Decne. Descr. Herb. Timor. 39 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 26 ; Schott 

 Ic. Aroid. i. 12; Syn. 19 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 194; Engler Arac. 616 ; 

 -ZV T . E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 262. T. flagelliforme, Blume in Wall. 



