AEIS^MA 



THE BULB BOOK 



AKIS^MA 



striped with white outside, and 

 purple within. 



A. Grifflthl (A. Ilookerianum). — A 

 handsome species from Sikkim, 1 to 

 Ij ft. high, with leaves divided into 

 large roundish leaflets. Spathe large, 

 hooded, brownish-violet, veined with 

 green. The spadix is also brownish- 

 violet, with a disc-like projection at 

 the base, the free end being produced 

 into a long thread-like appendage. 

 This species is probably quite hardy 

 in the mildest parts of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Fio. 5C.—Ans(Bma fimiriatum. (J.) 



A. japonicum. — A dioecious species 

 from China and Japan, having a 

 roundish tuber, and two-leaved stems 

 1 to 2 ft. high. The leaves are long 

 stalked and deeply lobed. The 

 spathe is green, striped with white. 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 7910.) 



A. Lackneri. — A Burmese species 



related to A . speciomm, but differing 

 in having long-tailed spathes. 



A. nepenthoides. — A Himalayan 

 species, 2 ft. high, with leaves ped- 

 ately divided into five more or less 

 lance-shaped leaflets. Spathe ochre- 

 brown and green, with two auricles 

 above the tubular portion ; spadix 

 yellow. {Bot. Mag. t. 6446.) 



A. Murrayl. — A native of Bombay, 

 about 1^ ft. high {Bot. Mag. t. 4388). 



A. ringens {A. prcecox ; A. Sieboldi). 

 —A remarkable hardy Japanese 

 species about 6 ins. high, with leaves 

 divided into three ovate-oblong long- 

 pointed segments. Spathe striped 

 with green and white, cylindrical 

 below, suddenly arching over, and 

 then contracting into a rather small 

 deep purple orifice with broad re- 

 flexed margins. {Bot. Mag. t. b9,&l.) 



A. spedosum. — A native of the 

 moist forests of the temperate Hima- 



FiG. 57, — Ari&oima spRciosum, 



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layas, about 2 ft. high, with solitary 

 leaves divided into three dark green 



