AMOKPHOPHALLUS 



THE BULB BOOK 



AMORPHOPHALLUS 



The following species may be 

 briefly noted : 



A. Afzeli (Corynophallus Afzeli). 

 A dwarf species, 1 to 2 ft. high, from 

 Tropical Africa, having finely divided 

 leaf - lobes, and tubular spathes 

 marbled and striped with purple. 

 The variety elegans has the 

 leaves cut into finer segments; 

 latifolia has broader lobes; and 

 spectabilis has pale- coloured stalks 

 with darker blotches. (Gard. Chron. 

 1872, 1619.) 



A. campanulatus (Tacca phallifera ; 

 Arum campanulatum). A native of 

 the East Indies, about 2 ft. high, 

 with large tubers, and leaves about 

 a yard wide divided into three large 

 lobes, each again cut into smaller 

 divisions. The spathe appears before 

 the leaf, and is about a foot long, 

 bell-shaped, greenish - yellow, out- 

 side spotted with brown ; the inner 

 surface being purplish or violet, 

 while the large, swollen, irregular 

 spadix sticks up in the centre. (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2812; Gard. Chron. 1889, i. 

 755, 804.) 



having a brown, club-shaped spadix 

 about 6 ins. long in the centre (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7091). 



FIG. 43. AffioTphopKcdlus cafripctnulatus. (|.) 



A. Eichlerl. A native of W. 

 Tropical Africa, with solitary, green, 

 much-divided leaves, and small purple 

 and white spathes about 4 ins. across, 



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Fid. 44. Amorphophallus Eichleri. (J.) 



A. Elliott!. A species from Sierra 

 Leone, having fleshy tubers, and leaf- 

 stalks about 1 ft.high with athree-lobed 

 pinnatifid blade. The scapes are 

 about 1 ft. high, bearing a short, 

 broad-hooded spathe, coloured pink 

 and green with blotches and zones 

 of brown purple. (Bot. Mag. t. 7349.) 



A. glabra, from Queensland, re- 

 sembles A. variabilis, but has shorter 

 spathes, and the flowers emit a 

 fragrance like pineapples (Gard. 

 Chron. 1895, xvii. 484). 



A. grandis. A Javan species about 

 a yard high, with a purple spadix in 

 the centre of a spathe which is green 

 outside and white within. 



A. Leopoldianus (Hydrosme Leo- 

 poldiana).A native of the Congo, 

 2 to 3 ft. high, with palmate leaves cut 

 into fine segments. The reddish- 

 violet spathes are ovate, lance-shaped, 

 and pointed, enclosing a cylindrical 



