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turioniferous ； turiones few, small, ovato-globose. Cataphyils short, 

 very thinly membranaceous. Leaves 1 ； petiole erect y slender or 

 rather stout，， terete,, smooth, glabrous, 10-38 cm. long, green, often 

 slightly streaked with, purple below ； sheath, very short. Blade 

 pedatisected with 7 — 13 — segments, green above, paler beneath, gla- 

 brous, membranaceous ； segments spreading, lanceolate, oblong- or 

 angustato-lanceolate, very attenuately acuminate, acute or cuneato- 

 acute at the base, entire and often crispulate on margin ； midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath, impressed above ； veins lax, erect- 

 patent, connected into a intramarginal vein, with an accessory 

 intramarginal fine veins close the margin ； petiolules short, strongly 

 divaricate, slightly arcuate outwards, canaliculated in front, 2J-2| cm. 

 long ； middle segment largest, sessile or shortly petiolnlate, 9- 

 20 cm. long, 2i-4 cm. broad ； lateral segments sessile or nearly 

 so, often more or less falcate, gradually decreasing in size towards 

 the end, c utmost one 2i-7 cm. long, |-2| cm. broad. Scape short, 

 close to ground, erect or ascendinö'lv erect, about 4-8 cm. high, 

 inclosed with the base of the petiole at the base, usually slender, 

 terete, smooth, curved or turned below or rarely above, light green, 

 often shaded with light purple, purpurascent above. Spathe : 

 lamina fornicate, orbiculat o - o va t e , cauclato-acuminats, broadly round- 

 ed- auriculatecl at the base, thickly (when fresh) but thinly (when 

 dry) membranaceous towards the entire and atropurpureous margin, 

 about 3-7J cm. long, 2J-4| cm. broad, more or less crispate, atro- 

 purpureous towards the centre and longitudinal-variegated with 

 atropurpureous and light green colour towards the margin inside, 

 with a white mark of the thick T-form in the inner lower face, 

 pale-viridescent and more or less atropurpureous- variegated out- 

 side ； tube oblong- cylindrical, abruptly reduced and obtuse at the 

 base, about 2J-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. across, pale and hardly virides- 

 cent with longitudinal atropurpureous broad or slender stripes 

 (sometimes confluent) outwards, broadly and closely atropurpureous 

 striped inside, thickly (when fresh) membranaceous, but tnmlj so 

 when dry. Spadix : Male ； axis about 12-15 mm. long, cylindrical 

 and scarcely enlarged above, longitudinally rugose, purple ； male 

 flowers loosely sparse, patently shortly stipitate, usually 3- rarely 

 4-androus ； anther purple, with pale pollen ； Female ； axis shortly 

 ovoid, about 11 inm. long, 9 mm . across ； ovules many, closely 

 placed, ovoid, smooth, green, 2 mm. across, shortly beaked into a 

 style ； stigma truncate, white ； appendage exserted, flagello-filiform 

 and erect above, gradually thicker and curved below, subfusiform 

 (about 5-8 mm. across) at the base, atropurpureous but viridescent 

 towards the top, about 9-16 cm. long. 



Nom, Jap. Hime-urashimaso (nov.). 



Hab. KIÜSHIÜ (Z. Tashiro ! and Y. Nabeshima ！). 



A species very closely resembles A. Ttiunbergii Bi"， but the 

 peduncle is much shorter, gracile and often turned, the spathe 

 much smaller with the smaller spadix and short appendage. 



{To be continued.) 



