'Litiim, of which latter ho figures and d< a 



Javanese specimen. Should this identification of the 

 Timor with the Indian plant prove to be incorrect, the 

 former plant (and A. virosw if co^pccific) will have to 

 take the name of A. Rumphii. Schott, indeed, in his 

 Meletemata (under Reichenbach's genus of Candor 

 which he retained in that work as a genus) makes three 

 species out of Ax rqmnnhitum, Roxb., namely, G. 



Hozburghii for the plant of that author, 0. Rumphii for 

 that figured by Gaudichaud, and G. Hookeri for the one 

 figured at t. 2812 of this work. In Schott's latest work, 

 ho\vever,his " Prodromus Systematis Aroidearum" (p. 130), 

 these are passed over in silence, and presumably reduced 

 to A. campanulatus, Blame, to which is added A. dvhiu$ K 

 Blume (see Tab. 5187 of this work) ; and in this 

 he is followed by Engler in his Monograph of Aracea9 

 (p. 309). Whether A. dubius, a native of the Peninsula of 

 India and of Ceylon, will prove distinct is doubtful, for I 

 am informed by Mr. Clarke that A. campanulatus assumes in 

 the dry weather a very diminutive form; and there is 

 nothing in its male or female flowers or spathe by which it 

 can be distinguished. It remains to add that a very wide 

 geographical distribution is assigned by Blume and Bngler 

 to A. campanulatus, namely, from Bengal to Ceylon in India, 

 the Malay Islands to Timor and New Guinea, the Pacific 

 Islands of Tahiti and the Fijis, and lastly Madagascar. 



The specimen here figured of A. virosus flowered in the 

 Royal Gardens in June of last year, and was as fetid as is 

 usual with its allies. It is supposed to have been brought 

 from Siam. The height of the petiole was 4 feet and 3| 

 inches in diameter; the spread of the blade 6 feet. — 

 /. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Reduced view of the whole plant ; 2, petiole ; 8, portion of leaf; 4, inflo- 

 rescence; 5, portion of inner surface of spathe ; 6, male flowers; 7, fem. flowers ; 

 8, vertical section of ovary ; 9, ovules :— all but jiffs. 1, 2, 3, and I greatly enlarged. 



