The tube of the spathe was two inches in diameter, and its 
height about three inches, the limb rather longer. The 
total height of the spadix eight inches, and diameter of the 
golden yellow appendage one and a quarter inch. The 
whole inflorescence equals the appendage in length, and its 
male portion, which is yellow, is as long as the green female. 
(The ovaries in the Calcutta drawing are yellow with red 
bases. ) 
A. oncophyllus belongs to a small group of the genus 
with very short styles, and a spadix much exceeding 
the spathe, which contains five species, all natives of 
Burma (to which country the Andamans botanically be- 
long) and the Malayan Peninsula. All of these are 
described for the first time in the recently published nine- 
teenth part of “The Flora of British India.” Along with — 
A. oncophyllus Dr. King has sent, also from the Anda- 
mans, tubers of another magnificent species found by Dr. 
Prain, which is closely allied to A. campanulatus (A. viro- 
sus, N. H. Br. Tab. t. 6978), and is the A. Rew, Prain 
(Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 514), which is figured by Blume in his 
Rumphia (i. t. 82, 83), and there wrongly referred to the 
Indian A. campanulatus. ; 
A. oncophyllus was discovered by Dr. Prain, Curator 
of the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, on 
the Cocos Islets, a group of the Andaman Archipelago, 
early in the present year. Tubers of it were received 
at Kew from Calcutta in March, and flowered in the 
following May. Mr. Watson informs me that its odour 
was the most vile of any of its notoriously evil-smelling 
congeners, and that visitors rushed through the “ Begonia 
house,” in which it was exhibited, to escape from it.— 
7. D. H. 
Fig. 1, spadix ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary ; 5, the same cut vertically, and 
6, transversely ; 7 pee 2 ‘ : : 
greatly phir sei » ovule ;—all enlarged :—8, flowering scape and inflorescence, 
