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An Aroid New for Australia. 
By J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist and Director of the 
Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Honorary Fellow. 
[Read June 6, 1905.] 
A iiiorjihoplKiUiix rtiniixDiiihttnx, Blunie, Pine Creek, 
Northern Territory of South Australia (J. H. Niemann). 
Cultivated in thei Botanic Gardens, Sydney, where it flower- 
ed, October, 1904. Water colour drawings of the llower 
(October, 1904), and of the foliage (January, 1905), have 
been executed by Miss Margaret Flockton, and are deposited 
in the National Herbarium, Sydney, 
This species belongs to the section 'Candarum," chiefly 
distinguished from the other sections by the long style. 
According to Engler's Monograph of Aroideae in DCs 
Monographise Phanerogarum, vol. ii., p. 308 (1879), the fol- 
lowing three species belong to this section : — 
A. cam panulatus . Blume. 
A. duhins, Blume. 
A. hirsutus, Teysm. 
The measurements of our plant are : — 
Height of spatlie, 10^ inches. 
Breadth of spathe, 8 inches. 
Height of spadix, 8h inches (from base to t-op of 
sterile appendage). 
Sterile apjDcndage, nearly 4 inches broad, and rather 
above 3 inches high. 
The measurements of .4. chihnis are, according to "Bot. 
Mag.," t. 5187: — 
Height of spathe, 6 inches. 
Height of spadix, 4 inches. 
It will be seen that the flower is about twice as large as 
those of A . duhins, and are sharply distinguished from that 
species by the wrinkled apj^endage of the spadix, which is 
smooth and almost egg-shaped in .4. duhiua. 
The following are actual measurements of the plant of 
A. campanulatus : — 
Height of plant, 6 feet 4 inches. 
Length of petiole (trunk), 3 feet 10 inches. 
Diameter of petiole, If inches. 
Length of leaf, 2 feet 6 inches. 
Spread of foliage, 4 feet 4 inches- 
