Amorphophallas.^ cl. aroide.e (brown). 157 



Welwitsch's note in the British Museum it reads " I have seen it nearly 6 ft. long." 

 The figure 6 may, however, be an error of copying. There is no spathe or perfect 

 spadix of this species either at Kew or the British Museum. 



23. A. accrensis, N. E. Br. Leaf not seen. Peduncle H in. 

 long in the specimen seen, but probably longer, olive-green, not 

 spotted, smooth. Spathe convolute for about \ of its length, about 

 6 in. long, in the dried and very shrivelled specimen seen, but accord- 

 ing to a drawing made from the living plant about 1 ft. long and 8 in. 

 diam. across the oblique mouth ; tube somewhat campanulate-funnel- 

 shaped, not at all constricted at the mouth, glabrous and green out- 

 side, without spots, pale yellowish-white within, at least in the upper 

 part, and densely covered with stout curved hairs or soft bristles in the 

 basal part ; limb ovate, obtuse, suberect, frilled, broadly bordered with 

 dark purple. Spadix three times as long as the spathe, sessile ; female 

 part about 2 in. long, cylindric ; male part about 2 in. long, 

 stout, obconic; appendix about 19 in. long and If in. thick at the 

 base in the dried state, but according to the drawing about 2^ ft. long 

 and 2J in. thick, gradually tapering from base to apex, smooth, olive- 

 brown. Ovaries not very crowded, oblong, 2-celledj stigma large, 

 sessile, 2-lobed. 



upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Accra ! Described from a dried specimen sent 

 to Kew by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, in January, 1900, which had been 

 received by them from Accra. 



24. A. leopoldianus, N. E. Br. Leaf nearly 3 ft. diam., 

 glabrous ; petiole 2 ft. long, somewhat flattened, smooth, green, with 

 minute purple spots near the base ; terminal segments 3-4 in. long, 

 7-9 lin. broad, the others smaller, all lanceolate, acuminate, decurrent 

 at the base. Peduncle smooth. Spathe convolute for about 4 in. into 

 a ventricose vase-shaped tube, densely verrucose inside at the base ; 

 limb 6-8 in. long, ovate, acute, expanded, wavy on the margins, velvety 

 in texture, rich dark brownish-pu'i-ple. Spadix twice as long as the 

 spathe, subsessile ; flowering part cylindric, dense, slightly constricted 

 at the base of the male spike, female about \\ in. long, male 2 J in. 

 long; appendix 18 in. or more long, about | in. thick at the base, 

 gradually tapering to an obtuse apex, smooth. Ovary subglobose ; 

 stigma sessile, cushion-like. — Hydrosme leopoldiana, ]\Iast. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1887, i. 642, 644, 645, figs. 122, 123 ; III. Hort. xxxiv. 65, t. 23, 

 and xlii. 380, fig. 49 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 276. 



JaO'wer Guinea (?) Congo Region : Cultivated sjyecimen ! 



The peduncle of the type has been broken off about li in. below the spithv^ and 

 in all probability represents only a small portion of it. A. leopoldianus is allied to 

 A. angolensis, N. E. Br. and A. maximvs, N. E. Br. ; from the former it differs in 

 being densely verrucose instead of hairy at the base of the spathe inside, and from 

 A. maximus in its smooth petiole. 



25. A. xnaximuSy N. E. Br. Tuber depressed, oblique. Ix^af 

 (juvenile ?) about 18 in. diam. ; petiole and its three branches rough 

 with small tubercles, variegated with irregular whitish spots on an 



