146 AROIDEA. 
Spadix basi feminea, tunc nuda, tunc antherifera, tunc 
iterum nuda immulata, demum in conum basi annulatum 
subulatum sanguineum longe productum 
Ovaria confertissima. Stylo o. Stigma discoidea rubro-mar- 
ginata, margine fimbriatulo. Filamenta varie torta longa alba. 
Autherze sessiles oblonge discrete biloculares, medium supra 
longitudine dehiscentes, Pollen corneum. 
Ovaria unilocularia; ovula 1, antitropa funiculo mediocri- 
curvato: shaped themselves like a gourd. Stigma a hollow pa- 
pillose funnel placed in the apex of the ovary, surrounded by 
a subelevated fimbriated red ring. 
The pollen tubes will have an extremely short way to tra- 
vel, since the foramen of the ovulum reaches to the stigma. 
Malacca Nhinghull : May, 1842. 
This is a species of Typhonium according to Endlicher and 
Schott, but there are scarcely sufficient grounds for its sepa- 
ration from the genus Arum, many of the characters cited by 
these Authors in this case, appear to me to be of subgeneric 
value only. 
Lamina spathe post anthesin decidua, Perianthium basis 
foliaceum, convolutum, apice truncato hian. Pedunculus 
elongatus, conspicue sulcatus. Spadicis apex nudus fistulosus. 
AMORPHOPHALLUS, 
Amorphophalius. Radix maxima placentiforma, apice de- 
presso-concava e superfice tota vel presertim supra radicem 
exserens. Folia non visa. 
Spathe ? 3, coriaceo-scariose lineari-oblonge, decumbentes 
inflorescentia basi cingunt. 
Pedunculus 2 uncialis robustus. Spatha maxima, tubo am- 
plo-campaniforma lamina cujus marg. unus marg. alterium 
involvit. maxime petaloidea carnosa, deflexa crispata: antice 
acuminata, tubo intus basi carnosis, papillis majusculis carneo 
colore omnino vestit. Ovaria dense congesta spadicis basin 
cingunt. rubescentia rotunda, subdepressa, bilocularia, 
