specimen, issued as one of an invaluable series of Aroid 
figures distributed by that eminent botanist to all the 
principal Herbaria and Botanical Libraries. 
_S. vermitowicus is a native of the Eastern Andes, in the 
province of Tucuman, where it inhabits hedges and shrub- 
beries. It was first found by Lorrentz on road-sides near 
Lules, who gives it the name of ‘“ Sacho-col,” and who 
describes the tubers as attaining four pounds in weight. 
Two tubers were received at Kew early in 1891, from Mr. 
J. 8. Floyer, of Sherborne, St. John, Basingstoke, with the — 
information that they were collected by his daughter, Mrs. 
Glynne Williams, in Tucuman, and that it is there called 
“Cana brabo,” ferocious cane, because the plant blisters 
thehands. Of these two tubers that here figured flowered 
in October of the same year, and the other in March of 
this year.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Portion of spadix and spathe, showing the insertion of the former; 
2, male #l.; 3, fem. fl. ; 4, staminode; 5, vertical section of fem. fl.; 6 and 7, 
transverse section of ovaries; 8, ovule; all but fig. larged.—The leat 
figured is half the natural size. CrP al a 
