Amorphophallus.] cl. aroide^ (brown). 149 



flowering part dense, female J-| in. long, C34indric, male 1-1 J in. long, 

 stout, obconic ; appendix 2-4 in. long, 1-3 J in. thick, ovoid, obtuse, 

 blackish-purple or yellowish-green, rugose. Ovary ovoid, 1 -celled, 

 green ; style 1-1 J lin. long, jointed near the middle ; stigma small, 

 discoid or cushion-like. Anthers very crowded, pale brownish-green. — 

 Hydrosme dixtcontioides, Engl. Jahrb. xv. 401, t. IH ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 473; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtrage /A 

 ii.-iv. 5 J). 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Kpong, on the Volta River, Johnson, 662 ! 

 Too^olaud : in bush by the River Angar in Anyanga district, near Rismarkburg, 

 Biittner, 419 (ex Engler). Lagos: Abeokuta (drawing), Irviur/ ! and at Illaro, 

 Milieu, 125 of 1893 collection ! Niger Territory : Nupe, in moist ground, barter, 

 1141 ! 



The leaf with Barter's specimen is only a foot high, evidently from a juvenil« 

 plant. The spathe in Dr. Irving's drawing is 13 in. long, and he states that it is 

 *' a small specimen to tit the paper, generally 3 times larger." 1 can see no differ- 

 ence between the specimens collected by Barter and Johnson, and Dr. Irving's drawing, 

 except as to size. This plant was referred by Schott to Corynophallus Afzelii 

 (A. leonensis), but the ovoid, cucullate limb of the spathe at once distinguishes it 

 Irom that species. The figure given by Engler appears to be that of an immature 

 (unopened) spathe viewed sidev^^ays. 



4. A. Teuszii, N. E. Br. Leaf 2-2^ ft. diam. glabrous; petiole 

 '2 ft. (or more ?) long, green, smooth ; terminal segments 3-4-i- in. long, 

 ^- in. broad, the others smaller, all narrowly lanceolate, gradually 

 tapering to a long acuminate point, decurrcnt at the base. Peduncle 

 ) ^-2 in. long, smooth. Spathe 5-6 in. long, convolute for about 1 in. 



into a cylindric tube 1 in. diam., green outside, pallid within; limb oblong, 

 3-7-lobed, erect and deeply concave in the lower part ; lobes reflexed, 

 green outside, blackish-purple within. Spadix shorter than the spathe ; 

 flowering part dense, cylindrical, about 4 lin. thick, slightly tapering 

 in the upper part, female about ^ in. long, male 1^ in. long ; appemlix 

 2 in. long, about 3J lin. thick a little below the middle, thence tapering 

 to the base and to the obtuse apex, slightly directed forwards, greenish 

 Ovary ovoid, green ; stigma sessile, discoid, slightly excavated in the 

 centre, scarcely lobed. Anthers yellow. — Hydrosme Teuszii, Engl, in 

 Gartenfl. 18H4, t. 1 142, Aracese exsicc. & illustr. 115, and Jahrb. xv. 

 459; Engl. &, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 128; Durand «fe Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 475, and Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 276. 



Ko\(rer Guinea. Angola : Bisumrk Island, in the River Kuango, Teusz, 

 406! 



I have only seen a cultivated leaf of this plant, and I regard the very remarkable 

 lobed spathe figured and described by Engler as probably an abnormal condition, 

 for, judging from the manner in which the spadix bends forward, 1 believe the per- 

 fectly formed spathe will be found to have the limb somewhat hooded, with the aj^ex 

 directed forwards. 



5. A. Schweinfurthii, N. E. Br. Tuber 2-2\ in. diam., flattened. 

 Leaf about 2 J ft. diam., glabrous; petiole 1-1 :J ft. (or more?) long, 

 smooth; terminal segments 6-8 in. long, A-| in. broad, the lowest 

 smaller, all linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, decurrent at the 



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