Tas. 6673. 
PSE UDODRAC ONTIUM Lacovuru. 
Native of Cochin-china. 
Nat. Ord. Aroripem®.—Tribe PyrHoniEx. 
Genus Pseupopracontium, WN. FE. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. SF. Gen, Pi. vol. iii. 
p- 971, ined.) 
PsEupopracontium Lacourii; petiolo scapoque gracili pallide griseo-rufescente 
olivaceo-fasciato, lamina folii_ trisecta, segmentis sessilibus v. petiolulatis 
indivisis v. 2-pluri-partitis, ultimis sessilibus obovato-oblongo- v. elliptico- 
lanceolatis acuminatis viridibus albo-maculatis, spatha cymbiformi viridi 
apiculata, spadice robusto spathw squilongo, inflorescentia mascula laxiflora 
quam fcemineam brevem cylindraceam longiore et latiore, staminibus ad 4, 
antheris clavato-rotundatis, ovariis oblique globosis, stigmate subsessili, 
appendice crassiuscule stipitato conico obtuso stramineo sinuatim sulcato. 
P. Lacourii, V. #. Br. in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 194. 
AmorrHorHattus Lacourit, Lindl. et André in Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxv. p. 90, 
t. 316. 
The singular Aroid here figured is a native of Phuquoc 
in Cochin-china, and was introduced by M. Linden, of 
Brussels, to whom the Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted 
for living plants, which flowered in May of last year. It 
belongs to the same tribe of the order as the Amorpho- 
phalli, of which so many Asiatic species have of late been 
brought under cultivation, and was discovered by M. 
Contest Lacour, a horticulturist employed by the French 
Government in Pondicherry and in Cochin-china. It pro- 
bably attains a much larger size with more divided leaves 
than are exhibited by the specimen here figured. _ 
Descr. Petiole and peduncle slender, pale greyish red, 
banded with olive green, striate, the former four to six 
inches long, the latter twice as long, both surrounded at 
the base by loose membranous sheaths. Blade of leaf 
three-sect ; the divisions each on petiolules one-half to one 
inch long and coloured like the petiole, or the central sessile 
and simple, the lateral two-fid or pinnately three- or more-fid; 
FEBRUARY lst, 1883. 
