158 CL, AROIDEE (BROWN). [| Amorphophallus. 
olive-green ground ; terminal segments 34-5} in. long, 13-2} in. broad, 
elliptic-obovate, shortly cuspidate, acute, narrowed to the decurrent 
base. Peduncle 24 ft. or more long, more than an inch thick at the 
base, whitish, spotted with purple. Spathe pale rosy outside, spotted 
with dull green, inside blackish-purple ; tube campanulate, about 4 in. 
long and broad, inside densely verrucose; limb 5-6 in, long, broadly 
triangular, wavy on the margin. Spadix twice as long as the spathe ; 
flowering part thickened upwards, female about 1} in. long, 1 in. thick, 
cylindric, male about 1} in. long, and about 1} in. thick at the apex, 
obconic ; appendix about 20 in. long, 14 in. thick near the base, tapering 
upwards. Ovaries scattered, ovoid ; stigma sessile, orbicular.—/ydrosme 
maxima, Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii 323, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 128, 
and Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 182; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 474. 
Corynophallus maximus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 741. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Mombassa, Hildebrandt, 2018, Engler, 
Arace exsicc. and illust., 241 ! 
I have not seen a flowering specimen of this species, but only the leaves from 
plants cultivated at Berlin and distributed by Engler as Hydrosme maxima, which 
possibly do not belong to the same plant as the inflorescence on which the species was 
founded. See note under 26, A. Fischeri. 
26. A. Fischeri, V. £. Br. Leaf unknown. Peduncle 16-18 in. 
(or more ?) long, 3-4 lin. thick in the dried state, smooth, Spathe 
convolute below; tube 2-3 in. long, campanulate-infundibuliform, 
about 3 in. broad at the mouth, outside glabrous, green marked with 
small white spots, inside dark coloured at the densely verrucose base 
with a pale zone above it; limb 4-6 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, more or 
less spreading, broadly ovate, acute, undulated, both sides green, 
sprinkled on the outside with small white spots, often broadly bordered 
with purple. Spadix sessile, twice as long as the spathe; flowering 
part dense, female 5-9 lin. long, cylindric, male 3—14 in. long, 7-12 
lin. thick at the top, obconic; appendix 10-16 in. long, 7-12 lin. thick 
at tne base, gradually tapering to the apex, smooth. Ovary sub- 
globose, 2-celled ; stigma sessile, thick, 2-lobed——_Hydrosme Fischeri, 
Engl. Jahrb. xv. 460, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 132; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fi. Afr. v. 474. 
_ Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usukuma; on the watershed of 
Simiu, Fischer, 618 (ex Engler) ; and without precise locality, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: in valleys near Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 922! 
As I have not seen an authentic example of this plant I have compiled the above 
description entirely from the specimens collected by Kirk and Menyharth, which I 
believe to belong to this species, since they quite agree with Engler’s description of 
Hydrosme Fischeri, except in having the male part of the inflorescence slightly but 
distinctly thickened upwards. The description in Engler’s Jahrb. however, is 
somewhat contradictory with regard to this character, as on pp. 458 and 461 the 
male part of the spadix is stated not to thicken upwards, whilst on p. 460 it is des- 
cribed as somewhat narrowing towards the base. According to description, this species 
appears to differ from A. maximus only by its thicker appendix. The leaves, how- 
ever, distributed by Engler as Hydrosme maxima, have tuberculated petioles, and as 
a rule the peduncle of the same plant would be tuberculated also, although nothing of 
this kind is mentioned in the description. If the peduncle is tuberculated in A. 
