TAB, 782 
AMORPHOPHALLUS oncornytuws. 
Native of the Andaman Islunds, 
Nat. Ord. AnorEa.—Tribe Pyrnontes, 
Genus Amorruoruat.us, Blume ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 970.) 
AMORPHOPHALLUS oncophyllus; tubere depresso bulbillifero, petiolo lato, 
lamingz ample 3-pinnatisecte foliolis lanceolatis basi tuberiferis, spathas 
longe-pedunculate tubo late ovoideo basi rotundato albido viridi striato 
et maculato, limbo oblongo v. orbiculari-ovato inclinato v. recurvo rufo- . 
purpureo maculis aureis medio virescentibus ornato, marginibus orem 
cingentibus revolutis, spadice sessile, inflorescentia mascula foomineam 
zquante, appendice crasso inflorescentiam totam squante conoideo 
stramineo, antheris brevibus, ovario 2-3-loculari, stigmatibus subsessilibus 
erassis 2-3-lobis. 
A. oncophyllus, Prain mss., ex Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 576. 
A strikingly handsome species, attaining a great size. 
According to a drawing made by a native artist in Calcutta, 
the tuberous root is ten inches in diameter, the petiole attains 
two to three ft. in height, and an inch in diameter, and is of 
a dark green blotched with greenish white. The leaf blade 
is three and a half feet in diameter, with leaflets six to eight 
inches long; the peduncle is about half the length of the 
petiole, but lengthened in the fruiting stage, and the spathe 
attains nearly a foot in length, its tube 3 in diam. and the 
blade 7 inches; the spadix also is a foot long, with the 
_ appendage 23 in. diam. and 7 in.in length. The colour of 
the spathe is much deeper brown purple than in the Kew 
plant, and the spots are pure‘yellow. Some allowance 
for these figures may have to be made, due to the preva- 
lent habit of exaggerating dimensions which is a besetting 
sin of native artists. The specimen here figured flowered 
at Kew, and doubtless represents only a small state of the 
_ plant (as is to be expected in the first evolution of leaves and 
_ flowers from a root weakened by transport from India). 
The height of the flowering peduncle of the Kew plant 
was nine inches, and its diameter three-fourths of an inch. 
December Ist, 1893. 
