Amorphophallus. | CL. AROIDEH (BROWN). 157 
Welwitsch’s note in the British Museum it reads “I have seen it nearly 6 ft. long.” 
The figure 6 may, however, be an error of copying. There is no spathe or perfect 
spadix of this species either at Kew or the British Museum. 
23. A. accrensis, V. /. Br. Leaf not seen. Peduncle 8 in. 
long in the specimen seen, but probably longer, olive-green, not 
spotted, smooth. Spathe convolute for about 4 of its length, about 
6 in. long, in the dried and very shrivelled specimen seen, but accord- 
ing to a drawing made from the living plant about 1 ft. long and 8 in. 
diam. across the oblique mouth ; tube somewhat campanulate-funnel- 
shaped, not at all constricted at the mouth, glabrous and green out- 
side, without spots, pale yellowish-white within, at least in the upper 
part, and densely covered with stout curved hairs or soft bristles in the 
basal part; limb ovate, obtuse, suberect, frilled, broadly bordered with 
dark purple. Spadix three times as long as the spathe, sessile ; female 
part about 2 in. long, cylindric; male part about 2 in. long, 
stout, obconic; appendix about 19 in. long and 1? in. thick at the 
base in the dried state, but according to the drawing about 23 ft. long 
and 21 in. thick, gradually tapering from base to apex, smooth, olive- 
brown. Ovaries not very crowded, oblong, 2-celled; stigma large, 
sessile, 2-lobed. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Accra! Described from a dried specimen sent 
to Kew by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, in January, 1900, which had been 
received by them from Accra. 
24. A. leopoldianus, V. #. Br. Leaf nearly 3 ft. diam., 
glabrous; petiole 2 ft. long, somewhat flattened, smooth, green, with 
minute purple spots near the base; terminal segments 3-4 in. long, 
7-9 lin. broad, the others smaller, all lanceolate, acuminate, decurrent 
at the base. Peduncle smooth. Spathe convolute for about 4 in. into. 
a ventricose vase-shaped tube, densely verrucose inside at the base ; 
limb 6-8 in. long, ovate, acute, expanded, wavy on the margins, velvety 
in texture, rich dark brownish-purple. Spadix twice as long as the 
spathe, subsessile ; flowering part cylindric, dense, slightly constricted 
at the base of the male spike, female about 1} in. long, male 2} in. 
long ; appendix 18 in. or more long, about } in. thick at the base, 
gradually tapering to an obtuse apex, smooth. Ovary subglobose ; 
stigma sessile, cushion-like.—Hydrosme leopoldiana, Mast. in Gard. 
Chron. 1887, i. 642, 644, 645, figs. 122, 123 ; Ill. Hort. xxxiv. 65, t. 23, 
and xlii. 380, fig. 49; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 276. 
Lower Guinea (?) Congo Region: Cultivated specimen ! 
The peduncle of the type has been broken off about 13 in. below the spathe, and 
in all probability represents only a small portion of it. A. leopoldianus is allied to 
A. angolensis, N. EK. Br. and A. maximus, N. E. Br.; from the former it differs in 
being densely verrucose instead of hairy at the base of the spathe inside, and from 
A. maximus in its smooth petiole. 
25. A. maximus, V. £. Br. Tuber depressed, oblique. Leaf 
(juvenile?) about 18 in, diam.; petiole and its three branches rough 
with small tubercles, variegated with irregular whitish spots on an 
