in a note in Saunders’ Refugium (vol. iv. tab. 282), 
suggests that it is only D. asperwm, and that the locality 
of Sierra Leone is an error. 
I am indebted to Mr. Bull, F.L.S., for the means 
of figuring this interesting plant, and take the present 
opportunity of recording my sense of the signal service 
which this ardent. horticulturist has rendered to botanical 
science, by the introduction and cultivation of so many fine 
plants of this family; plants which cannot be satisfactorily 
investigated except in a living state, and which, from their 
brief duration, lurid colours, and often foetid odour, offer 
no attraction to the lovers of other than rare and curious 
plants. D. Carderi was discovered by the traveller whose 
name it bears, and was imported by Mr. Bull, who flowered 
it at his establishment in Chelsea in April, 1879. 
Desor. Petiole two to three feet high, slender, terete, 
mottled with bands of dirty green; lamina two feet in 
diameter, three-sect to the base; divisions horizontal and 
drooping at the ends, undivided or forked at or below the 
middle, pinnatisect below the middle, pinnatifid beyond it; 
pinnules or lobes very unequal, the lower contracted or not 
at the base, oblong or obovate, acute or acuminate, some 
two to three inches long and undivided, others six to eight 
inches and lobed or split, or perforated, all pale green, 
membranous, with many arching nerves. Peduncle twice 
as long as the petiole, as slender and similarly coloured. | 
Spathe a foot long, lanceolate, acuminate, dirty green 
outside with reddish brown raised nerves, dark purple 
inside, Spadix one and a half inch long, on a very short 
stout stipes, cylindric, obtuse, violet blue; flowers (unex- 
panded) about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter; 
perianth-segments five, spathulate, with incurved cucullate 
tips; stamens about eight; ovary three-celled, contracted 
into a stout columnar style with a very small three-lobed 
terminal stigma.—J. D. H. 7 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, greatly reduced ; 2, spadix, of the natural size ; 3, wnex- 
panded flower; 4 and 5, perianth-segments ; 6, anthers (immature); 7, section of — 
ovary; 8, ovule :—all enlarged. — 
