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enclosed by long-linear cataphylla to + 25 cm. long; spathe broadly 

 campanulate, ± 22 cm. long, explanated very broad, shortly apiculate, 

 the margin undulated, the base longitudinally rugulose on the inner side, 

 green on the outer side, both surfaces otherwise red-violet; spadix somewhat 

 shorter than the spathe; femin. inflorescence cylindrical, + 4 — 5 cm. long; 

 ovaries subdepresso-globose, + 2 2'/2 mm. high, 2 — 3-ovulate ; style slender, 

 cylindrical, + 5 — 6 mm. long; stigma moderately large, deeply undulato- 

 2— 3-lobed; mascul.* inflorescence obconical, + 5—6 cm. long; appendix 

 shortly conical, rather obturbinate, ± 10 cm. long, according lo a photo- 

 graph as thick as long near the base, the apex truncate, the surface ir- 

 regularly longitudinally rugulose, the rumples densely verruculose, sparingly 

 (deciduously?) hirsute. 



Amorphophallus subcymbîformis, v. A. v. R. 



Foliorum petiolus ; lamina Cataphylla 5; cata- 



phyllum extremum triangulare, perbreve, acutum, apertum, intimum late 

 lineare, + 35 cm. longum, convolutum, obtusum, extus pallide rutilum, 

 punctis rubris parce, nigris dense irregulariter munitum, aspeclu generali 

 rutilo-griseum, maculis pallidis, rotundatis ad longitudinaliter striiformibus 

 variegatum. Pedunculus ± 45 cm. longus, colore cataphylli sed maculis 

 latioribus, oblongo-ovalibus. Spatha postice conspecta clavata, J;: 14 cm. 

 longa, '/4 parte inferiore subcylindrica, 2: 1^/4 cm. diametiens, antice auguste 

 aperta, marginibus ad basin solum contiguis, inflorescentiam non obtegens, 

 ceterum subcymbiformis, late aperta, + 4 cm. lata, explanata oblonga, oblusa, 

 breviter incurvato-apiculata, extus viridis, parce rubro- et dense purpureo- 

 punctata, aspectu generali viridi-grisea, maculis sparsis, parvis, rotundatis, 

 pallide viridibus ornata, intus pallide griseo-viridis Spadix sessilis, quam 

 spatha paullo brevior; inflorescentia feminea cylindrica, li: l'/z cm. longa 

 crassaque; pistilla + 3 mm. alta; ovarium paullo depressuin, breviter et 

 obtuse prismaticum, eburneum, apice subtruncalum, pallide viride, in stylum 

 breviter conicum, pallide viridem abrupte transiens. l-ovulalum; stigma 

 capitatum, pallide viridi-flavum, apice foveola minuta, 3 4-angulari munitum ; 

 inflorescentia mascula cylindrica, ± l^/^ cm. longa, fere 1 '/s cm crassa, 

 eburnea; appendix subfusiformi-cylindrica, ± 8 cm. longa, média ± 2 cm 

 crassa, obtusa, pallide flavido-viridis, verruculoso-asperula. 



In forest; ait. 500 m. — Near A. Beccarii Engl. 



The description is taken from a living spécimen cultivated in the 

 Buitenzorg Gardens, flowering June 1919. 



Sumatra {Dell, Sibolangit, W. Docters van Leeuwen). 



Amorphophallus Muelleri, Bl , Rumph., I, 143; Reg, in Gartenfl , 7575, 

 291, tab. 842; Engl., Pflzrch, XLVIll (IV, 23 C), Arac.-Lasioid., 86. 



Pétiole 20 220 cm. long; lamina 30—200 cm diam , with the ultimate 

 segments elongate-lanceolate, very long-acuminate. Peduncle 55 — 180 cm. 

 long, more or less distinctly pale-green- or dark-purple-mottled or marbled, 

 for the rest very variable in colour and shape of markings. Spathe when 



