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pallide viridis vel flavido-roseus, maculis pallide flavidis vel viridibus 

 ornatus. Spatha oblique campanulata, ± 10 — 25 cm. longa, limbo usque 

 ad ± 20 cm. diam.. obtusa vel acuta; tiibus intus verruculosus, obscure 

 vinosus. extus pallidior, indistincte pallide striatus, ;ilbo-maculatus; faux 

 intus pallidissime vinosa, subviolacea, albo-punctata, vel eburnea aut 

 pallide flavida, non punctata; limbus intus viridis et pallide viridi- 

 reticulato-venosus vel vix pallide viridis, extus sordide pallide viridis, 

 subundulatus, margine vix lobatus, pallide rubrus Spadix ± 22V2 35 cm. 

 longus; inflorescentia feminea subcylindrica, ± 5% cm. longa; ovaria 

 brevissime stipitata, depresso-globosa, ± 1 — 1 '/2 mm. alta et 2 3 mm. 

 diam., pallide flavida vel viridi-flavida, 2(-3?)-ovulata; stylus graciliter 

 cylindricus, ± l'/a mm. longus; stigma quam ovarium majus, basi obconi- 

 cum, apice 2 — 3-lobatum, lobulis rotundato-conoideis vel semiglobosis, 

 divergentibus; inflorescentia mascula obconoidea, ± 4V2 cm. lon.-a; appen- 

 dix ovoidea, ± 17'/2-25 cm. longa, tertia parte inferiore ± 8 — 10 cm. 

 crassa, apicem obtusum versus attenuata, pallide sulphurea. 



Moist places in forest; ait. 400-500 m. 



Sumatra {Deli, Sibolangit, J. A. Lôrzing Nos. 5085, 5155, 12Apriland 

 4 June 1917). 



Amorphophallus titanum, Btcc, in Bull. Soc. Tosc, 1879, 46;Engl., 

 Pflzrch, XLVIII (IV. 23 C), Arac.-Lasioid., 86, fig. 31; Conophallus titanum, 

 Becc, 1. c, 1878, 271, 291. 



A spécimen cultivated in the Kew Gardens and having flowered there, 

 lias been described as having the spathe 90 cm. deep, the limb 120 cm. 

 diam., the inner side purple-red with a blue sheen, the outer side pale- 

 green in the lower half, white in the upper half, the spadix ± 160 cm 

 long, with the ovaries ovoid and tapering into a long style, carminé. — A 

 plant gathered in Deli (Sibolangit, J. A. Lôrzing No. 5071), very probably 

 a spécimen of this species, is, according to the material on haiid and the 

 field-note, distinguished from the diagnosis given by Engler by the following 

 characters: Nearlyallthe dimensions somewhat smaller; pétiole and peduncle 

 pale-grey-mottled ; spathe dark-wine-red on the inner side, pale-yellovv-green 

 on the outer side, the margin irregularly plicate and lobed, dirty-green, 

 the lobules triangular; féminine inflorescence conical ovaries shortly stalked, 

 subsessile, conoid or conoid-ovoid, ± 5 mm. long, the base truncate or 

 rotundate, wine-red, the apex black; style ± VU cm. long, with the base 

 passing very gradually into the ovary; stigma capitale, rather su ooth, 

 grey; masculine inflorescence obconoid-turbinate, the apex suddenly much 

 thickened; appendix long-conoid, attenuated gradually towards the bluntly 

 acuminate apex, pale-yellow-brown. 



Amorphophallus Brooksii, v. A. v. R. 



Foliorum petiolus ± 3 m. longus, laevis, obscure viridis, maculis min- 

 oribus majoribusque, rotundis et longitudinaliter elongato-ovalibus ornatus; 

 maculae pallide virides, maculis numerosis, minutissimis, obscuris, seriati§ 



