506 CLXVi. AEOIDB^. (J. D. Hooker.) ^AriscBma, 



16'; Schott Syn. Aroid. 31; Syat. 43; Engl. Arac. 555. A. cornutum, 

 ScJwtt in Bonpland. (1859), 27 ; Prodr. 48 ; JEngler I. c. 557. 



Tempeeate Himalaya, from Kashmiri alt. 7-8000 to Bhotan, alt. 10-12,000 

 ft. 



Fuier subglobose. Leaves solitary or 2 ; petiole i-S ft., stout or slender j 

 leaflets 2-6 by 1-2^ in., almost caudate-acuminate but not filiferous. Spathe 3-5 

 in., striped with white, margins narrowly recurved below, tip often thread-like 

 ^3 in. long. Appendage stipitate, sometimes with a truncate base, at others slender 

 from an ellipsoid base. — -Very variable in size. In a specimen apparently of this 

 species from Sikkim and another from Kumaon (^Duthie, 6063) the appendage 

 ie 4 in. quite as long as the limb of the spathe (without its long point). The 

 spathe is incurved above the middle and terminates in a very long erect horn. 



30. A. exile, Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 26; Prodr. 42; leaflets 

 5-11 narrowly oblanceolate finely acuminate, spathe very narrow, tube 

 elongate, Umb as long lanceolate narrowed into a long thread, appendage 

 stipitate very slender filiform as long as the tube of the spathe. PJngler 

 Arac. 554. — Arisaema, Wall. Cat. 8918. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; Nepal, WallicA. 



Tuber small. Leaves solitary or 2; petiole 8-26 in., very slender; leaflets 

 3-6 in., minutely erose. Peduncle longer than the petiole. Spathe i in., limb hardly 

 broader than the tube, pale green striped with white, slightly incurved, margins 

 hardly recurved below, filiform tip 1-3 in. Spadix very slender ; appendage 

 stipitate, base ovoid. 



81. A. erubescens, Schott Meletem. i. 17 ; Syn. 30 ; Prodr. 53 ; 

 leaflets 9-12 narrowly oblanceolate acuminate glaucous beneath, tube of 

 pink spathe cylindric, limb oblong or ovate-oblong or -lanceolate incurved 

 narrowed into a long filiform tail, margins below recurved, appendage 

 stout erect subcylindrio from an elongate ovoid base, tip rounded. Blume 

 Ewmph.i. Q%; Kunth JE um. iii. 16; Engler Aran. 557. A. vituperatum, 

 Schott in Bonpland. (1859), 28. Arum erubescens. Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 

 30, t. 135.— Arisaema, Wall. Gat. 8917. 



Temperate Himalaya ; Nepal, WalUch ; Sikkim 6-8000 ft., J.S.H. 



Tuber subglobose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 12-18 in., and peduncle pale rose-colrd. , 

 streaked with red in bars ; leaflets 5-7 in., margins undulate, tips not filiferous* 

 Spathe about 4 in., excluding the filiform tail, white striped with rose ; tube longer 

 than the incurved rather broader limb. Appendage hardly exserted beyond the 

 tube pale. — Differs from A. exile chiefly in the stout short appendage. 



32. A. echinatum, Schott Meletem. i. 17 ; Prodr. 49 ; leaflets 7-9 

 narrowly lanceolate caudate-acuminate, tube of green spathe infundibular, 

 limb ovate-lanceolate incurved tapering into a very long pendulous tail 

 margins below revolute, appendage short oyUndric top truncate rugose or 

 echinnlate. Blume Bumpk. i. 94; Kunth JEnum. iii. 16; Engler Arac. 555 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8916. Arum echinatum, Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 30, t. 136.— 

 Pythonium, sp. Griff. Itin. Notes 176 ; Notul. iii. 156 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 

 163. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; Nepal, WalUch ; Sikkim, alt. 9-11,000 ft. — J.D.H. ; 

 Bhotan, Griffith. 



Tuber small, globose. Leaf solitary ; petiole 10-18 in., and peduncle all green 

 or streaked with red-brown, lea8ets 6-12 in. Spathe 6-10 in., greenish, striped with 

 white and brown, or purple within, tail longer than the limb and tube. Spadiso 

 hardly exserted ; appendage stipitate, contracted in the middle, white streaked with 

 purple, base rather swollen rounded, tip green. 



