4riscema.'] clxvi. aeoide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 503 



19. A.. Wrayl, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. (1887) 205 ; leaves 1-3, leaflets 

 0-9 petiolulate narrowly elliptic-lanceolate tips apiculate or filiform, tube 

 of apathe open as long or longer, limb ovate obtusely acuminate dilated at 

 the base with two largo revolute auricles, appendage very long filiform 

 pendulous. JSr. M Br. in Qard. Chron. (1889) ii. 136; Bot. Maq. 

 t. 7105. ^ 



Perak, Wray; Larut, alt. 3-4000 ft., ScortecTiini. 



Tuher subglobose, rooting all over. Petiole 12-18 in. and potiolules mottled 

 green and white and dotted with red ; leaflets 6-10 by 1-2 in., dark green, median 

 longest with petiolule 1-2^ in. Peduncle taller than the petiole, slender. Spathe 

 5-7 in., erect; limb pale yellow green or lilac with darker stripes. Spadia 

 very slender ; fern, with scattered didymous bicuspidate anthers on long filaments 

 on the base of the appendage. Stigma penicillate. 



** Appendage ofspadix included or shortly exserted. 



I 20. A. decipiens, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1857) 373; 

 Frodr. 34; dioecious, leaves 2, leaflets 5-7 elliptic-lanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate, lateral sessile on a common petiolule, median long-petiolulate, 

 tube of spathe as long as the lanceolate caudate incurved limb, tail as long 

 aa the rest of the spathe, appendage hardly longer than the tube sub- 

 truncate straight. Engler Arac. 542 ; N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soo. xviii. 

 251. 



Khasia Hilis, alt. 5-6000 ft., Grij^tTi, Ac. 



Mootstock horizontal, rooting, as thick as the thumb. Peft'oZe 12 -16 in., slender, 

 sheaths very long, mottled ; leaflets 6-10 in. ; petiolule of median 1-1^ in. ; lateral 

 divaricate. FeAunole shorter than the petiole. Sjiatte 4-5 in., excluding the filiform 

 tail which is 3-5 in., dull purple; lower margins not recurved. Spadix slender; 

 appendage stipifcate, cylindric, erect, rather thickened toward^ the base ; male fl. 

 subsessile. — The Javan habitat is an error. 



21. A. flavum, Schott Frodr. 40 ; monoecious, leaves 2, leaflets 9-11, 

 lateral sessile oblong or lanceolate acuminate, median sessile or petiolulate, 

 spathe very short, limb ovate cuspidate or acuminate as long or twice as 

 long as the subhemispheric tube, base not' recurved, spadix included, 

 appendix very short clavate. Engler Arac. 548. A. abbreviatum, Schott 

 in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. (1857) 382 ; Frodr. 40 ; Angler I. c, and In. ined. 

 No. 7. Dochaf a flava, Schott Syn. 24 ; Qen. Aroid. App. Arum flavum, 

 Forsk. Fl. ^gypt. Arab. 157. 



Tempeeatb Himalaya and Westeen Tibet, alt. 5-9000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon. Chitmbi; N.B. of Sikkim, King's Collector. — Distkie. Afighanistan, 

 Arabia. 



BootsiocTc globose. Petiole 8-12 in., sheath usually very long; leaflets 2-4 in. 

 Spathe 1-2 in., green, yellow, or the limb faintly purple below. Spadix conical ; 

 fem. infl. of a few rows of closely packed globose ovaries, in close contact with the 

 male infl., which consists of a most dense layer of subsessile connate anthers, from the 

 top of which emerges the appendage, which is about J in. long.— A highly curious 

 plant, the spadix quite unlike that of any congener. I find no difference whatever 

 between the Himalayan and Arabian specimens. 



22. A. Scortecllini, Sook. f. ; dioecious, leaf solitary, leaflets 3-5 

 lanceolate acuminate, lateral subsessile, median petiolulate, tube of spathe 

 cylindric, limb ovate or ovate-lanceolate erect, tip shortly filiferous, base 

 dilated into two large rounded spreading auricles. 



Pbnang, Cwiis. Pebak, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



