Tas. 6180. 
TYPHONIUM Brownt. 
Native of Sub-tropical Australia. 
Nat. Ord, Arorea.—Tribe DracuncuLes. 
Genus Typnontum, Schott. ; (Schott. Prodr. Syst. Aroid., p. 105). 
Typuontum Brownii; folio hastato-tripartito v. profunde trilobo, segmentis 
lobisve elliptico- v. lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis lateralibus horizontali- 
bus, sinubus rotundatis acutisve, spatha breviter pedunculata, tubo — 
globoso v. ovoideo viridi, lamina 5-pollicari. late ovata . acuminata 
concava marginibus recurvis extus viridi intus luride purpurea, 
spadicis parte feminea brevi conica, parte mascula cylindracea stipitata, 
stipite basi organibus neutris filiformibus circinnato-decurvis onusto, 
appendice fusiformi-conoideo vy. elongato obtuso v. subacuto brumeo- 
purpureo nitido spatha multo breviore. 
T. Brownii, Schott, Aroid., vol. i. p. 77, 1855; Prodr 
F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral., vol. viii. p. 187. 
Arum Orixense, Brown, Prodr., p. 336, non Road, 
. Syst. Aroid., p. 107; 
A very curious Aroid, belonging to a genus that extends 
from Western India to Australia and the Malayan Islands, 
and of which probably many species are still to be discovered 
in New Guinea and the eastern islands of the China sea. — It 
is a native of Eastern Australia, extending from Port J ackson 
northward to Rockingham bay in latitude 19° S., and, accord- 
ing to Mueller, varying in the length of the club-shaped apex 
of the spadix from one to five inches, as also in the breadth 
of the spathe. Under these circumstances it 1s not surprising 
that Robert Brown referred this to the T. orivense (Arum 
oriwense of Roxburgh), a plant very widely spread in tropical 
and subtropical India, and which yet may prove to be a geo- 
graphically-separated variety of this. : : 
prs Seca was flowed by Mr. Bull in April last, 
from bulbs imported by him from Rockhampton mn nae 
land, and sent for figuring in the Botanical Magazine. It - 
another of the many rare and remarkable plants, of “e e 
commercial worth perhaps, but of great scientific interest, for 
the accurate knowledge of which botanists are so much in- 
AuGustT lst, 1875. 
