356 A raceCE. \_A morphophallus. 



Tuber depresssed-globosc, 8-10 in. diam., bulbilliferous, 

 dark brown; 1. i or 2, appearing after flowering, 1-3 ft. broad, 

 segments spreading, simple or forked, leaflets 2-5 in., sessile, 

 obovate or oblong, acute, strongly many-veined, petiole 2-3 

 ft., very stout, rough, clouded dark and light green ; spathe 

 broadly campanulate, pointed, 6-10 in. broad, and as deep 

 from the base to the lip, margin recurved, undulate and 

 crisped, strongly closely veined, greenish pink externally 

 with pale ocellated blotches, base within purple, rough and 

 warted, ped. short, stout, elongate in fr., surrounded by long 

 flaccid sheaths ; spadix about as long as the spathe, appendage 

 very variable in size, up to 8 in. long by 5 diam., globose, 

 conoid or amorphous, sinuously lobulate, dark red purple, 

 spongy within ; male infl. subturbinate, about 3 in. long, 

 1-2 in. diam., anth. densely crowded, pale yellow, pollen 

 vermiform ; fem. infl. 3 in. long or more, up to 2\ in. diam. ; 

 ov. densely crowded, sessile, depressed-globose, style \ in., 

 stout, ascending, purple, stigma large, 2-3-lobed ; berries 2-3- 

 seeded, red. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft. ; common, especially near the coast ; 

 extremely abundant between Galle and Matara. Fl. Deceniber-March ; 

 very fetid, in the evening- especially. 



Also in Peninsular India, Andaman Is., Java, &c. 



Cultivated for the farina in the tubers. 



No doubt this is the plant called A. Re.\\ Prain in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 514 

 (from Java and the Andaman Is.), so well figured (as A. ca)iipanitlatus^ 

 in Blume, Rumphia, above quoted. I cannot see that it is distinct from 

 A. civnpanitlatiis {Arum ca7)ipamilatui)i, Roxb.) of India. It varies much 

 in size. — Ti'lineii. 



I think that Dr. Trimcn's view of the identity oi A. Rex with A. cam- 

 pamihitKS is open to question. Besides being a much larger plant, the 

 spadix of y^. AVa- rises high above the spathe, and bears an appendage 

 10-14 in- loiio) ^"tl the leaflets attain 6-10 in. long.— J. U. H. 



2. A. dubius, BI. Rumphia i. 142 (1S35). 



Hcrm. I'ar. liatav. 90. Burm. Thes. 90. Thw. Enum. 335. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 514. Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 18. Bot. Mag. t. 5187 

 (from a Ceylon specimen). 



Tuber 5-6 in. diam. ; 1. as in A.camp(xnulaiiis, but appearing 

 with the flowers; spathe about 6 in. long, convolute and broadl)' 

 tubular below for about 3 in., then dilating into a broadly 

 campanulate, ovate, acute limb, with waved at length revolutc 

 margins, pale purplish green, blotched or mottled with white 

 externally, margins bright green, within vinous purple ; ped. 

 3 in. when flowering, with scarious sheaths at the base ; spadix 

 46 in., very stout, appendage ovoid-globose, 2 in. diam., 

 obscurely corrugated, purple, top rounded, male and fem. infl. 

 as \x\ A. campanulatus. 



