504 CLXTi. AROiDE^. (J. D. Hookep.) [AristBma. 



Sootstock horizontal, rooting all over. Fetiole 2-6 in., slender, ereen ; leaflets 

 4-6 in., dark green (with white along the middle in a drawing in Herb. Calcutt.), 

 tips often shortly filiferous, Spathe 3 in., green ; limb 1^ in. long, erect, white 

 towards the centre, auricles dull yellow-green. Spadix (male) dull purple, narrowly 

 conical, tapering into the erect naked yellow obtuse appendage, 



C. Rabiatisecta; Leaflets whorled. (Sp. 23 to end.) 



* Spadix much longer than the spathe. 



23. A. neg'Iectum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 26; Frodr. 36; 



monoecious, leaflets 4-7 sessile elliptic or oblanceolate cuspidately acumi- 

 nate, tube of spathe cylindrio base swollen, limb about as long oblong- 

 cymbiform acuminate top incurved, appendage twice as long as the spathe 

 erect then porrect and again erect. JSngler Arae. 654. A. fiUforme, Thw. 

 Bnum. 334 (not ofBl.). A. Wightii, Bot. Mag. t. 5507 (riot of Schott). 



Westeek Ghats j from the Concanto the Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft. Cetioit; 

 in the south part of the island, ThwaiteSy Suegel. 



Tuber globose. Leaves 1 or 2 ; petiole green or clouded; leaflets usually 

 broadest in the middle. Spathe 3-4 in., green ; limb open, margins not recurved, 

 base not dilated. Spadix rather stout, appendage sessile, remarkably like that of 

 A. tortuosv,m. 



** Spadix not longer than the spathe. 



t Dioecious {rarely monoecious). Fern, spadix mih neuters above the 

 injlorescence, 



24. A., nepentholdes, Mart, in Flora (1831), 458 ; in Wall. Cat. 

 8919 ; leaflets 5-sessile elliptic or oblanceolate acuminate, tube of spathe 

 elongate, limb elliptic-ovate base dilated into two broad rounded recurved 

 auricles, appendage erect snbcylindric top rounded. Schott Melet. i. 17 ; 

 Syn. 31 ; JProdr. 48 ; Blume Humph, i. 94 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 16 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6446 ; Engler Arac. 551. Arum nepentholdes. Wall. Tent. Fl. Ny>. 

 26, t. 18. 



Tempeeate HruAiAYA ; alt. 9-11,000 ft.; Nepal, Wallieh, Sikkim, J.D.S. 

 &c. 



Tuher globose, very large. Leaves 2 ; petiole peduncle and tube of spathe dull 

 yellowish clouded with dark streaks. Peduncle shorter than thfe petiole. Spathe 

 6-8 in., tube 2-3 in., cylindrio, base not swollen j limb 4 in., whitish within, yellow 

 without ; auricles nearly 1 in. broad-green spotted with brown and with a broad 

 purplish-brown margin. Spadifc whitish ; appendage stipitate, much shorter than the 

 spathe, contracted in the middle. Ovaries obovoid, contracted into a rather long 

 style, stigma simple. — Lateral leaflets sometimes lobed at the outer base, showing a 

 tendency to the pedate section. 



25. A. Xieschenaultil, Blume Bumph. i. 93 ; leaflets 5-11 oblanceo- 

 late acuminate serrulate, tube of spathe cylindrio as long as the 

 subereot cymbiform long caudate-acumina'e limb, appendage stout 

 cylindric or slightly clavate tip rounded. Kunth Enum. iii. 15 ; Schott 

 Byn. Aroid. 30 ; Frodr. 51 : Engler Arac. 552. A. papillosum, Steud, ex 

 Schott Frodr. 46 ; Thw. Enum. 335 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5496 (^excl. syn. erubes- 

 cens) ; P A. erubescens, BaU. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 258. A. Hnegelii, Schott 

 Syn. 27 ; Frodr. 44.— Arissema, Wall. Oat. 8921. 



Westeen Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 



Tuber large, globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft., usually mottled and 



