Amorphophallus. | CL. AROIDEA (BROWN). 155 
18. A. calabaricus, V. #. Br. “Plant 2-3 ft. high” (Mann). 
Leaf not seen. Peduncle 1} ft. (or more?) high, about } in. thick at 
the base, smooth. Spathe convolute below; tube 24 in. long, about 
2 in, diam. at the top, funnel-shaped, outside glabrous, inside hairy at 
the base; limb about 34 in. long, erect, ovate, acute, apparently pur- 
plish, at least along the border. Spadix more than twice as long as the 
spathe ; flowering part dense, female 6-7 lin. long, 4 lin. thick, eylin- 
dric, male | in. long, obconic, thickened upwards, 6 lin. thick at the 
top; appendix more than 13 in. long, apex broken off in the specimen 
seen, nearly an inch thick a little above the base, thence tapering to 
the apex, smooth, apparently greenish or yellowish, pallid olive in the 
dried state. Ovary subglobose ; stigma sessile. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Old Calabar River, Mann, 2336! 
19. A. maculatus, V. H. Br. Leaf about 23 ft. diam.; petiole 
about 2} ft. long, smooth, light green, marked with numerous rather 
large oval confluent olive-green spots ; terminal segments 6-8 in. long, 
2-24 in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; lateral seg- 
ments smaller, elliptic or oblong, acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate. 
Peduncle 2 ft. long, smooth, coloured like the petiole. Spathe convo- 
lute below ; tube 4—5 in. long, green, spotted with dark grey outside, 
densely hairy at the base inside; limb about 8 in. long, 6 in. broad, 
expanded, ovate, subacute, suffused and veined with deep red on a 
green ground, glabrous. Spadix very shortly stipitate, twice as long as 
the spathe ; flowering part cylindric, 3-1 in. thick, female 13-2 in. 
long, male 1 in. long ; appendix 15-16 in. long, ? in. thick, cylindric, 
obtuse, dark violet. Ovaries somewhat crowded, ovoid, 2-celled ; style 
1 lin. long, stout ; stigma very thick, 2-lobed. Anthers crowded. 
Lower Guinea. Congo or Gaboon: Cultivated specimen ! 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew in 1892 by Mr. Godefroy Lebeuf, who 
was uncertain as to its native habitat. 
This species closely resembles the Japanese A, Konjac, C. Koch, but in that 
species the tube of the spathe is only rugulose-tuberculate inside, without hairs, 
whilst in 4. maculatus it is thickly covered with hairs or hair-like processes inside 
in the lower part. Of the African species it seems nearest to A. gallaensis, N. E. Br. 
and A. angolensis, N. E. Br. 
20. A. gallaensis, V. Z. Br. Tuber depressed-globose, about 
24 in. diam. Leaf unknown. Peduncle about 1 ft. long, smooth. 
‘Spathe oblong, convolute, obliquely funnel-shaped ; tube 4 in. long, 
1} in. diam., smooth inside, blackish-purple in the basal part ; limb 4 in. 
long, very undulated at the purple margin. Spadix 1} times as srg 
the spathe ; female part 3 in. long, cylindric; male part about o in. 
long, turbinate ; appendix 1 ft. long, elongated-conoid, aoe : vary 
subglobose ; style 2 lin. long; stigma slightly 3-lobed.—Hydrosme 
gallaensis, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 422. 
Wile Land. Gallaland : Robe Mountain, in the region of the sources of the 
River Dana, Riva, 410. 
I have not seen this species ; from its long styles and other characters it wou 
