Amorphophallus.] CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). 149 
flowering part dense, female 1—? in. long, cylindric, male 1-1? in. long, 
stout, obconic ; appendix 2-4 in. long, 1-34 in. thick, ovoid, obtuse, 
blackish-purple or yellowish-green, rugose. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled, 
green; style 1-14 lin. long, jointed near the middle; stigma small, 
discoid or cushion-like. Anthers very crowded, pale brownish-green.— 
Hydrosme dracontioides, Engl. Jahrb. xv. 461, t. 18; Durand & Schinz, ' 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v, 473; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtriige zu 
ii.-iv. 59. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kpong, on the Volta River, Johnson, 662! 
Togoland ; in bush by the River Angar in Anyanga district, near Bismarkburg, 
Biittner, 419 (ex Engler). Wagos: Abeokuta (drawing), Zrving! and at Illaro, 
Millen, 125 of 1893 collection! N iger Territory: Nupe, in moist ground, Barter, 
1141! 
The leaf with Barter’s specimen is only a foot high, evidently from a juvenilg 
plant. The spathe in Dr. Irving’s drawing is 13 in. long, and he states that it is 
“a small specimen to fit the paper, generally 3 times larger.” I can see no differ- 
ence between the specimens collected by Barter and Johnson, and Dr. Irving’s drawing, 
except as to size. This plant was referred by Schott to Corynophallus Afzelit 
(A. leonensis), but the ovoid, cucullate limb of the spathe at once distinguishes it 
from that species. The figure given by Engler appears to be that of an immature 
(unopened) spathe viewed sideways. 
4. A. Teuszii, V. “. Br. Leaf 2-2} ft. diam. glabrous; petiole 
2 ft. (or more 2) long, green, smooth ; terminal segments 3-44 in. long, 
+ in. broad, the others smaller, all narrowly lanceolate, gradually 
tapering to a long acuminate point, decurrent at the base. Peduncle 
13-2 in. long, smooth. Spathe 5-6 in. long, convolute for about 1 in, 
into a cylindric tube 1 in. diam., green outside, pallid within; limb oblong, 
3—7-lobed, erect and deeply concave in the lower part; lobes reflexed, 
green outside, blackish-purple within. Spadix shorter than the spathe ; 
flowering part dense, cylindrical, about 4 lin. thick, slightly tapering 
in the upper part, female about } in. long, male 14 in. long; appendix 
2 in. long, about 34 lin. thick a little below the middle, thence tapering 
to the base and to the obtuse apex, slightly directed forwards, greenish, 
Ovary ovoid, green ; stigma sessile, discoid, slightly excavated in the 
centre, scarcely lobed. Anthers yellow.—Hydrosme Teuszii, Engl. in 
Gartenfl. 1884, t. 1142, Aracez exsicc. & illustr. 115, and Jahrb. xv. 
459; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 128; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 475, and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 276. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bismark Island, in the River Kuango, Teusz, 
! 
I have only seen a cultivated leaf of this plant, and I regard the very remarkable 
lobed spathe figured aad described by Engler as probably an abnormal condition, 
for, judging from the manner in which the spadix bends forward, I believe the per- 
fectly formed spathe will be found to have the limb somewhat hooded, with the apex 
directed forwards. 
5. A, Schweinfurthii, V. £. Br. Tuber 2-2} in. diam., flattened, 
Leaf about 24 ft, diam., glabrous ; petiole 1-1} ft. (or more?) long, 
Smooth ; terminal segments 6-8 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, the lowest 
‘Smaller, all linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, decurrent at the 
