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5. A. CAKXEA, Iiidley Jonrn. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. \'ol. XLI. p. 

 47. Tuber hemisplierie o inches across. Leaf unknown. Peduncle. 

 I] inclies and a half long. .Spathe o inchop long loosely convolute at 

 the base, with a broad limb pinkish with brown Ijlotches. paler within. 

 Spadix rather longer. Appendix conic obtuse 3 inches long, 1 inch 

 through at the base flesh colour obscurely cancellate. Male portion 

 2 inches long stout greenish. Stamens densely crowded. Female, 

 ovary shortly j)edicellate broad flask-shaped, style short and thick, 

 stigma lobed. 



Lanl^awi Islands (Curtis). Endemic. 



This plant was flowered in Penang Gardens, having been brought 

 in with other plants from Lankawi. I have only seen a drawing of 

 it. It appears nearest to A. hirsutuSj Teysm. 



6. A. iiAEMATOSPADix,, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. \1. ol7. Tuber 

 hemispheric. Leaf 2 feet tall, petiole 30 inches long and f inch 

 through at the base olive colour, lamina al)Out a foot across trifid with 

 5 ol)long lanceolate acuminate dark green leath'ts 5 to 7 inches long 

 2 inches across narrowed at the base. Peduncle 10-12 inches tall 

 l)lack with orange sheaths 6 inches long at the base. Spathe inches 

 long, tube l)road, lamina lanceolate acuminate about 1 inch wide 

 below, pale pink or brownish outside white inside, base deep maroon. 

 Spadix 5 to 7 inches long, appendage cylindric blunt ?> to G inches 

 long deep purple, narrowed below. Male portion short about as long 

 as the female, red. Female portion cylindric pistils ci'owded sessile 

 broadly globose flattened, style distinct stout, stigma discoid. 



Lankawi: Terutau (Curtis 2816). Endemic. 



7. A. VARIABILIS, Blumc Eumphia 1. 146, t. 36 and 37. Poot- 

 stock cylindric, or carrot-shaped, or hemispheric. Leaf petiole 6 to 

 30 inches loiig, base ] inch ihrough smooth olive green with pale 

 spots, lamina trifid pinnatisect, lobes ovate to lanceolate acuminate 

 dark green decurrent .5 inches long by 2 wide. Peduncle 3-4 feet 

 long olive brown marbled, sheaths at base light brown. Spathe base 

 campanuhite 2 inches long bi-oad. greyish, liml) narrow lanceolate o 

 inches long. Spadix over a foot long. Appendage cylindric tapei'ing 

 toward the point A incli through dirty white. Male portion \\ inch 

 long, stamens crowded light In-own. Female portion shorter, pistils 

 globose style very short stigma discoid. Kunth. Enum. III. 33. 

 Engler. Arac. Monogr. p. 314. A. elatus, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 

 317. BrachysiJathavariubill.v, Schott. Syn. 35. Gen. Ar. t. 29. Prodr. 

 127. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 111. 200. Gard. Chron. 18:(). Fig. 120, 130. 



Perak: Larut Hills (Kunstler) ; Lankawi: Terutau (Curtis Xo. 

 2815). Distrib. Java. 



'i1ie rootstock as ligured by Blumc is ]u'inis[)hei'ic and depressed 

 at ihc top, rather snuiU; that of the Lankawi plant is cylindric and 



