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TAB. 6491.
ABISME MA GRIFFITHII.
Native of the Eastern Himalaya,.
Nat. Ord. ABOIDE.E.•Tribe AKISAJIEJS.
Genus ABIS^MA, Mart.; {JEnyler in A. DC. Monog. Pitan, vol. ii. p. 683.)
ABISJKMA Grifft hü; robustum, foliis 2-nis 3-foliolatis petiolo riridi, foliolis sul>-
Kcssilibus late trarjezoideo-ovatisorbicuUtisvaaoaminatia barn ouneatia lateniHbai
interdam obliquis mnrginibas planiasoalis lUrii rabrisre, aerris riridibas
subtus prominulis, pedúnculo petiolo multo breviore riridi, ipatbffi tübo 4-5-
pollicari cylindraceo mnlticostato albo parpnreoqae strialo. I >miiia laii-sini
6•10 poU. lata deflexa inflata marginibus incurrí* medio ant irr indexa el profunde
2-loba atro-parparea nervis oraseis ralidis riridibas tessellatim laxe retioutata,
Bpadicis parte florifera orases conioo-cylindracea ápice abrupte contracts nuda,
appendioe atro-parparea basi in discum amplam sablobatam di Iota ta, dein
fasiformi et in nlam longissime tennissimam tortile desinente, orarii* subgio-
bons in styluin brevcm oontractis, stigmate troncato.
A. Grinitbii, SrJiott, Synops. Aruid. vol. i. p. 2(j (1856); Proér. Sijsl. Aroid,
p. 54; Engl. I.e. 588.
A. Hookerianum, Schott in (Est. But. Wuchcnbl. 1867, p. 884; Prodr.Syft. Aroid.
p. 29.
PVTHONII Sj).; Griff. Posth. Papers, vol. ii. p. 201, no. 1171».
This is by far the finest species of the genus as yet
known. It was discovered by Griffith in Bhotan, at eleva-
tions of 3000 to 5000 feet, and named, from imperfect spe-
cimens, after its discoverer by Schott, who however failed
to recognize it amongst the species subsequently brought
by myself from Sikkim, and transmitted to him for exami-
nation, and he consequently gave to the latter the name of
A. Hooker•uniurn. A comparison of Griffith's Bhutan speci-
men with my own does not enable me to detect any
difference between them, though the latter appears to affect
a much higher elevation, for I have never gathered it much
below 8000 feet of elevation, and it ascends to 10,000 feet.
Under A. utile (Tab. 6474) I have described the use fco
which the tuberous roots of this and other species of
MAY 1ST, L880.