— 365 — 



stigma conoid-semiglobose, not or hardly lobed; mascul. inflorescence 

 obconical, 5-9 cm. long, passing gradually into the apendix; appendix 

 elongate-conoid-ovoid or fusiform-conoid, about 5- 7 tinies as long as thick, 

 14—23 cm long, narrowed towards the blunt or bluntish apex, purple, 

 verruculose; berry suboblong, orange-red. 



In forest; ait. 1200-1800 m.; flowering January to July. 



The description is taken from spécimens occurring in the Buitenzorg 

 Herbarium, completed after an information kindly givén me by C A. Backer, 

 Botanist for the Java Flora, of the Buitenzorg Gardens. 



Java {Preanger Regencies, Tjinjiroean, W. Docters van Leeuwen 



No ; Mt. Patoeha, C. A. Backer No. 12886; Mt. Tjikoekoer, C. A. 



Backer No. 12887). 



Atnorphophallus oncophyllus, Prain. MS., Hk. p., Flor. Br. Ind., VI, 516; 

 Bot. Mag, 1893, tab. 7327; Engl.. Pflzrch, XLVllI (IV. 23 C). Arac- 

 Lasioid.. 98. 



Spécimens gathered in /ava are distinguished as follows: Pétiole 

 smooth, 40 — 100 cm. long, green or olive-green, longitudinally pale-green- 

 striated and -mottled; lamina 75— 100 cm. diam.; ultimate segments elongate- 

 lanceolate, long, long-acuminate, conspicuously pale-rosy- or white-mar- 

 gined. Peduncle 30 -60 cm. long, coloured like the pétiole. Spathe 12'/2— 27'/2 

 cm. long; tube broadly urceolate or campanulate, inside salmon-colourcd. 

 verruculose, outside pale-olive-green, transversely paler-mottled, densely and 

 finely longitudinally ribbed; limb bioadly, obliquely obconical, blunt, inside 

 purple-brown, pale-green-mottled, outside pale-violet-brown or olive-brown, 

 paler-mottled. Spadix distinctly longer than the spathe, on a stalk '/o-l'/zcm. 

 long; féminine inflorescence cylindrical, 5-10 cm. long; ovaries depresso- 

 globose, rosy, 2-3-ovulate; style very short but distinct, thick-cylindrical; 

 stigma broadly discoid, yellow, slightly but distinctly grooved and lobed; 

 masculine inflorescence broadly obconical, ± ^U — VJi X as long as the 

 féminine inflorescence, 5'/2-8'/i cm. long; appendix elongate-conoid-ovoid, 

 distinctly laterally compressed, 8-22 cm. long, 2V2— 8 cm. broad, 1 -3 cm. 

 thick, smooth or slightly grooved, truncate to subacute, opaque, pale-rosy, 

 yellowish-pale-rosy or pale-brown, at length cinnamon-brown; berry oblong 

 from an ovate base, ± l'/o cm long, vermilion, black-tipped. 



In jungle and forest; ait. 100-900 m. -The description is taken from 

 a living plant, flowering June, fruiting August 1919, completed after Backer's 



manuscript notes. 



Also in fava (Pekalongan, Lebak Barang, Sybrandi) and the Kangean 

 Archipelago (C. A. Backer Nos. 26807, 27454, 29018). 



Amorphophallus hîrsutus, Tsm. & Bdk, in Nat. Tijdschr. N. I., XXIV. 

 332; Engl., Pflzrch, XLVllI (23 C), Arac.-Lasioid., 106. 



Bïinnemeyer's No 1019 from Sumatra (Soeka Menanti, O/7/7/r), occur- 

 ring in the Buitenzorg Herbarium as A. hirsutus T. & B., differs from 

 the diagnosis given by Engler as follows: Peduncle ± 10 cm. long 



