me in considering it the same, 4. dudius, Bl.: and that is also 
a: native of Ceylon. Our plant flowered in a warm stove in 
June 1858, and gave out so abominable a stench as almost to 
render the atmosphere of it insupportable. 
Dzscr. From a rounded depressed tuber, about four to five 
inches in diameter, the flowering portion first arises. A very 
short stem or scape, bearing four to five membranaceous, green- 
ish-brown 4éracts, is termmated by a somewhat funnel-shaped 
spatha, six inches long and four wide at the oblique mouth, 
green, clouded with dull-purple, the limb somewhat expanded, 
undulato-crispate, subacute. Spadix two'and a half inches long 
(not including the terminal appendage), subcylindrical, but a 
little dilated below the apex, the greater portion densely covered 
with oblong yellow anthers, opening by two pores, and one-third 
of the base with globose ovaries, bearing a long sfy/e and a peltate 
subplicate stigma. Terminal appendage (or flowerless portion of 
the spadix) twice as broad as the spadix, conico-subrotund, of a 
reddish-brown colour, quite smooth on the surface. The flower 
is succeeded by a large petioled compound solitary leaf, exactly, 
except that it is smalller, like that described under J. campanu- 
latus above quoted. : 
Fig. 1. Flower plant,—anat. size. 2. Spadix, ditto. 3,4. Anthers, 5, Section 
of an anther. 6. Pistil. 7. Section of ovary :—magnified. 8. Leaf,—very much 
reduced. 
