Tab. 7153, 4, 5. 

 AMORPHOPHALLUS Titanum. 



Native of Sumatra. 



Nat. Ord. Aroide^:.— Tribe Pythoni*:^. 

 Genus AiiOEPHOPHALLUS, Blume ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 971.) 



Ahorphophallus (Brachyspatba) Titanum ; tubere maximo depresso-globoso, 

 folii petiolo 16-pedali lam albo-punctato, lamina ambita 30-45-pedali 

 triseeta, segmentis di-tri-sectis dichotome pinnatisectis pinnatifidisectisve 

 ultimis ovato-oblongia caudato-acuminatis, sinnbns angnstissimis, supra 

 laete viridibus nervis impressis subtus pallidioribas, pedanculo brevi 

 crasso albo-punctato, spatha juniore cataphyllis oblongis luride viridibus 

 albo punctatis vestila, matura? tubo crasso infundibulari-flavo virescente 

 in laminam late campanulatam rubro-purpnream expanso, lamina 3-4 

 ped. diam. ambitu recurva plicata marginibus grosse inasqualiter dentatis, 

 spadice spatha sub duplo longiore 5-pedali crasso stricto erecto, appendice 

 quam inflorescentia triplo longiore a basi ad apiceoi sensim attenuato 

 pallide am - eo-flavo laevi, inflorescentiis tubo spathee inclusis 10 poll, diam., 

 feminea e ovariis globosis sessilibus dissitis 2-3-locularibus in stylos duplo 

 longiores contractis, stigmatibus globosis, loculis 1-ovulatis, ovulis 

 basilaribus infl. masc. e antberis sessilibus confertis ellipsoideis 2-porosis, 

 baccis ovoideis rubris 1-2-spermis, seminibus plano-convexis. 



A. Titanum, Seccari in Bull. Soc. Toscan. di Ortic. 1879, p. 46 ; Arcangeli ia 

 Nuov. Giom. Bot. Ital. vol. xi. (1879), p. 217 ; Engler, Monog. Arac. p. 643 ; 

 Masters in Gard. Ghron. 1886. ii. p. 432, figs. 88 and 89 ; 1889, i. p. 746 

 and 804, figs. 119 and 120; 1889, ii. 19, figs. 3, 5, 6 ; Beccari in Ball. 

 Soc. Toscan. di Ortic. Ser. 2, vol. iv. 1889, p. 250, 266, t. viii. et Schneider 

 in Le Jardin. 1889, p. 178. (cum Ic. ex Journ. Hort. vol. lxxxii. p. 6, f. 2, 

 Herat.) 



Conopballns Titanum, Beccari in Bull. Soc, Tosc. di Ortic. 1878, p. 271, 

 291 ; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1878, p. 788, fig. 127. 



The earliest account of this wonderful plant that reached 

 Europe, is contained in an article under the title " Una 

 Pianta Maravigliosa," communicated by Signor Fenzi of 

 Florence, to the Royal Tuscan Society of Horticulture, in 

 September, 1878 (Bull. Soc. Toscan. di Ortic. 1878, 

 p. 271). It consists of the contents of a letter addressed 

 from Sumatra by the illustrious traveller and botanist, 

 Dr. Beccari, to his friend the Marchese Corsi Salviati, 

 in which he announces the discovery of a gigantic 

 aroid, probably belonging to the genus Co7iophaUus i and 

 gives some details of its huge dimensions. It was shortly 

 afterwards followed by another article under the title of 



January 1st, 1891. 



