Amorphophallus.] cl. AROiDEiE (brown). 155 



18. A. calabaricuSy A". ii\ Br. " Plant 2-3 ft. high " (Mann). 

 Leaf not seen. Peduncle IJ ft. (or more?) high, about J in. thick at 

 the base, smooth. Spathe convolute below ; tube 2 J in." long, about 

 2 in. diam. at the top, funnel-shaped, outside glabrous, in.side hairy at 

 the base ; limb about 3| in. long, erect, ovate, acute, apparently pur- 

 plish, at least along the border. Spadix more than twice as long as the 

 spathe; flowering part dense, female 6-7 lin. long, 4'lin. thick, cylin- 

 dric, male 1 in, long, obconic, thickened upwards, 6 lin. thick at the 

 top; appendix more than IS in. long, apex broken off in the specimen 

 seen, nearly an inch thick a little above the base, thence tapering to 

 the apex, smooth, apparently greenish or yellowish, pallid olive in the 

 dried state.- Ovary subglobose ; stigma sessile. 



TTpper Guinea. Niger Territory : Old Calabar River, Mann, 2336 ! 



19. A. maculatus, ^. E. Br. Leaf about 2 J ft. diam.; petiole 

 about 2J ft. long, smooth, light green, marked with numerous rather 

 large oval confluent olive-green spots ; terminal segments 6-8 in. long, 

 2-2J in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; lateral seg- 

 ments smaller, elliptic or oblong, acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate. 

 Peduncle 2 ft. long, smooth, coloured like the petiole. Spathe convo- 

 lute below ; tube 4-5 in. long, green, spotted with dark grey outside, 

 densely hairy at the base inside; limb about 8 in. long, 6 in. broad, 

 expanded, ovate, subacute, suffused and veined with deep red on a 

 green ground, glabrous. Spadix very shortly stipitate, twice as Tong as 

 the spathe ; flowering part cylindric, |-1 in. thick, female 1 J-2 in. 

 long, male 1 in. long; appendix 15-16 in. long, j in. thick, cylindric, 

 obtuse, dark violet. Ovaries somewhat crowded, ovoid, 2-celled ; style 

 1 lin! long, stout; stigma very thick, 2-lobed. Anthers crowded. 



JaO'weT Guinea. Congo or Gaboon : Cultivated specimen ! 



Described from a living plant sent to Kew in 1892 by Mr. Godefroy Lebeuf, who 

 was uncertain as to its native habitat. 



This species closely resembles the Japanese A. Konjac, C. Koch, but in that 

 species the tube of the spathe is only rugulose-tuberculate inside, without hairs, 

 whilst in A. maculatus it is thickly covered with hairs or hair-like processes inside 

 in the lower part. Of the African species it seems nearest to A. gallaensis, N. E. Br. 

 and A. angolensis, N. E. Br. 



20. A. gallaensis, N. E. Br. Tuber depressed-globose, about 

 2 J in. diam. Leaf unknown. Peduncle about 1 ft. long, smooth. 

 Spathe oblong, convolute, obliquely funnel-shaped ; tube 4 in. long, 

 1 J in. diam., smooth inside, blackish-purple in the basal part ; limb 4 in. 

 long, very undulated at the purple margin. Spadix 1 J times as long as 

 the spathe; female part | in. long, cylindric; male part about Ij in. 

 long, turbinate ; appendix 1 ft. long, elongated-conoid, smooth. Ovary 

 subglobose; style 2 lin. long; stigma slightly S-Xohed.—Hrjdrosme 

 gallaensis, Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 422. 



Wile Ziand. Gallaland : Robe Mountain, in the region of the sources of the 

 River Dana, Riva, 410. 



I have not seen this species ; from its long styles and other characters it would 



