SIMBLUM PERIPHRAGMOIDES (Fig. 83). Volva, white. 

 Stipe 3 to 4 inches long by 2 broad, hollow, striate, yellow. Receptacle 

 globose, with small meshes, yellow. This species, which was originally 

 from Mauritius, was sent to Hooker and published in 1831. It is 

 evidently rare in Mauritius, for Dr. O'Connor, who resides there and 

 has collected several other phalloids of this island, but lately found 

 it. The following species, which is common in Java, I at first thought 

 was distinct from its slender form, but at Upsala I have recently seen 

 a series of alcoholic specimens from Java, some so much like the 

 original specimens that I now think them to be one species. 



Fig. 88. 



SIMBLUM CLATHRATUM. 



SIMBLUM GRACILE (Fig. 84). This has all the characters of the 

 previous excepting the slender form. It is yellow, with a globose head of 

 small meshes. It is a very common species in Java, Ceylon, and India, and 

 has been reported from China. I am convinced, from an examination of a 

 series of alcoholic specimens from Java, at Upsala, that it can not be kept 

 distinct from the preceding species. 



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