coveries in tropical Western Africa have immortalized 
him. 
__M. Mannii resembles most in habit M. rosacea, Jacq., a 
plant first imported to England from and supposed to be 
a native of the Mauritius (an island that does not contain an 
indigenous species of the genus) but which was no doubt 
introduced thither from India. It differs from M. Manni 
in the longer-petioled leaves, large pale purplish bracts 
six to ten inches long, and the shorter deeper yellow 
flowers. 
The plant here figured was received from Dr. Wendland 
of the Herrenhausen Botanical Gardens, Hanover, in 1885, 
and has flowered annually in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 
the month of March. It was unfortunately not brought 
to me for figuring until after the female perianth had fallen 
away. The stem attains a height of two feet, and a girth 
of three and a half inches at the base, the leaf two feet in 
length by seven inches broad, its petiole eight inches. 
The spadix was six inches long. The fruit is small, three 
to four inches long, fusiform, obtusely trigonous, with a 
very broad truncate apex. Mr. Watson has succeeded in 
procuring ripe fruits from fertilizing M. Mannii with 
pollen of M. rosacea. These are about two inches long, 
obtusely trigonous, green with a pale sweet glutinous 
pulp and many seeds. The seeds are black, } inch long, 
irregularly oblong, plano-convex or trigonous ; the testa 
rough, crustaceous ; the albumen flowery ; and the embryo 
lateral. They have not as yet germinated.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Male flower; 2 and 3, stamens: 4, + £ styl d stigma; 
5, transverse section of ovary :-—All porsaiied | , top of style an gm 
