Tan, 8307. 
TYPHONODORUM LINDLEYANUM. 
Madagascar. 
ARACEAE. 
TypHonoporuM, Schott; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 977. 
Typhonodorum Lindleyanum, Schott in Oecst. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, p. 70; 
Gen. Aroid. t. 48, et Prodr. p. 161; Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. il. 
p. 832 ; species unica. 
Planta robusta, glabra, caule 1-3 m. alto et-10-30 cm. crasso, fibrosis vaginarum 
vestigiis vestito. Foliorum petioli 0° 60-1°30 m. longi, validi, teretes, supra 
leviter concavi vel carinati et in utroque latere carinae leviter concavo-cana- 
liculati, longe vaginati; lamina 0°35-1-05 m. longa, 18-60 cm. lata, ovata, 
acuta vel subacuminata, basi profunde cordata vel sagittata, lobis basalibus 
rotundatis vel deltoideis obtusis sinu triangulari aperto sejunctis. Pedwn- 
culus petiolo brevior, teres, 2°5-4 cm. crassus, viridis. Spatha suberecta, 
40-60 cm. longa; tubus 8-13 cm. longus, oblongus, viridis; lamina 
32-47 cm. longa, 8-13 cm. lata, lanceolata, acuminata, basi convoluta, 
— explanata, undulata, utrinque flavida. Spadix 25-41 cm. longus; 
inflorescentia feminea 5-9 cm. longa, neutra 3-5 cm. longa, mascula fertilis 
4-9 cm. longa, sterilis superior 13-18 cm. longa, flavo-aurantiaca. 'lores 
Jeminei nudi, organis neutris paucis interdum commixti; ovarium ovoideum, 
1-loculare, l-ovulatum; stigma sessile 3-4-lobum; ovulum erectum, ana- 
tropum. Flores masculi nudi, inferiores antheris 4-8 in synandrium trun- 
catum connatis, superiores steriles. Baccae magnae. Semina 2-2°5 em. 
diametro, compresso-orbicularia.— 7. madagascariense, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
vol, i. p. 188.—N. E. Brown. 
The gigantic evergreen Aroid which forms the subject 
of our illustration is a native of Madagascar, where it 
grows in water or in marshy places. It has, however, been 
introduced thence to the Island of Johanna in the Comoros, 
to Mauritius and it is also believed to Reunion, on account 
of its seeds which are eaten by the inhabitants. It develops 
an arboreous unbranched caudex crowned with a tuft of 
large sagittate leaves. The plant from which our drawin 
was made was presented to Kew in 1905 by the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Dahlem, Berlin ; placed in a bed of mud 
along with the Egyptian paper reed, it has grown vigorously 
and attained its present dimensions. It flowered at Kew 
for the first time in May, 1909, and afterwards devel 
ripe seeds, from which seedlings have been raised, 
of the seeds germinated in the bottom of the spathe. 
Aprit, 1910. 
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