Ariscema.'] clxvi. aroide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 505 



banded with red and brown; leaflets 4-6 by li-^ in. Spathe 3-3 in., green 

 with broad dark purple bands ; tube narrow j limb leaning forward, m irgius below 

 hardly recurved, tip straight obtusely acuminate, very variable in length. SpacUso 

 4 in., nearly cylindrie throughout, hardly stipitate ; neuter fl. few short. 



26. A. consang:uineum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 27; Prodr. 

 S2 ; leaflets about 15 (10-20) narrowly linear-lanceolate with long capillary 

 tip3, spathe green, limb about equalling the tube broadly ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate incurved with, a long filiform tip margin recurved at the base, 

 appendage stout cylindrie obtuse. — ArisKma, Wall. Cat. 8915. 



Tehpeeatb Himalaya, alt. 5-7000 ft. from Garwhal to Sikkim. Khasia 

 Hills, alt. 4-6000 ft. Munnipore, Watt. 



Tuber depressed globose, 1-5 in. diam.' Zeaf solitary j petiole 1-i ft., often 

 very stout and peduncle mottled dark pink and red or brown; leaflets 3 16 in., 

 i-2 in. broad, filiform tips 1-3 in. Spathe 3-7 in., excluding the filiform tip, 

 margins more or less recurved below. Spadim hardly longer than the tube, 

 appendage subsessile with a few neuter^ at the base. 



27. A. condnnum, Schott in Bonpland. (1859) 27 ; Prodr. Aroid. 

 50; leaflets 7-11 subsessile narrowly lanceolate or oblanoeolate acuminate, 

 tube of spathe elongate cylindrie, limb broadly ovate narrowed into a very 

 long decurved tail margins below not or slightly recurved, spadix usually 

 much shorter than the spathe, appendage very slender erect tip olavate 

 truncate, base not thickened. PJngl. Arac. 656 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5914 ; N. E. 

 Br. in jnurn. Linn. Soc. xviii. 254. A. alienatum & affine, Schott II. cc. 

 26, 27 ; 45-51.— Arisaema, Wall. Cat. 8920. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft. from Garwhal to Bhotau. 



Tuber globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 1-2 ft. and peduncle green or mottled 

 with brown or purple ; leaflets 8-12 in. Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Bpathe 

 green or purple striped with white, tube 2-3 in. j limb as long or shorter, open. 

 Spadix slender; sometimes monoecious; appendage exserted beyond the tube, 

 fern, with a few neuters at its base. — Very near A. Leschenaultii, difiering in the 

 slender appendage. A small state from Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ft., has mora 

 cuneately obovate cuspidately caudate leaves. 



28. A. pulchrum, N.E. Br. m Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 252, t. 6 ; 

 leaflets 8-12 cuneately oblanceolate cuspidate, tube of spathe elongate 

 cylindrie below infundibular and gaping above, limb broadly ovate sud- 

 denly narrowed into a decurved tail as long as the tube margins below 

 revolute, appendage stout cylindrie erect rather thickened below, tip 

 rounded. 



India (Sort. S«ll.). , _ , , , , 



Tuler globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole and peduncle stout, clouded and speckled 



with pale red-brown; leaflets 4^6 in., dark green above, subglaucous beneath. 



Spathe 3 in., purplish striped with green, limb 2 in. broad. Spadix much shorter 



than the spathe, shortly exserted beyond the tube ; appendage with an elqngate 



OToid base, and a few scattered neuters. 



** Dicecious. Neuters 0. 



29 A. Jacquemontii, Blume Bmnvpl. i. 95 ; leaflets 5-7 elliptio- or 

 obovate-lanceolate acuminate, tube of spathe narrow green, limb as 

 long or longer oblong- or ovate-lanceolate incurved narrowed into a 

 lonl acuminate erect or drooping tail, appendage elongate stipitate. 

 narrowed from the conical or truncate ^^^ase to the slender forward 

 curvfng tip. Lecne. in Jacquem. Toy. Bot. 168, t. 168; Kunth Envm. in. 



