158 CL. AROiDE^ (brown). [Amorphophallus. 



olive-green ground ; terminal segments 3^-5 J in. long, 1^-2;^ in. broad, 

 elliptic-obovate, shortly cuspidate, acute, narrowed to the decurrent 

 base. Peduncle 2 J ft. or more long, more than an inch thick at the 

 base, whitish, spotted with purple. Spathe pale rosy outside, spotted 

 with dull green, inside blackish-purple ; tube campanulate, about 4 in. 

 long and broad, inside densely verrucose ; limb 5-6 in. long, broadly 

 triangular, wavy on the margin. Spadix twice as long as the spathe ; 

 flowering part thickened upwards, female about 1 J in. long, 1 in. thick, 

 cylindric, male about IJ in. long, and about 1:| in. thick at the apex, 

 obconic ; appendix about 20 in. long, IJ in. thick near the base, tapering 

 upwards. Ovaries scattered, ovoid ; stigma sessile, orbicular. — Eydrosme 



maxima, Engl, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii 323, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 128, 

 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 132; Durand & Schinz, Consp. PL Afr. v. 474. 



Corynophallibs maximics, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 741. 



true Ziaud. British East Africa: near Mombass:i, Hildehrandt, 2018, JEnglery 



AraccB exsicc. and illust., 241 ! 



I have not seen a flowering specimen of this species, but only the leaves from 



plants cultivated at Berlin and distributed by Engler as Hydrosme maxima, which 



possibly do not belong to the same plant as the inflorescence on which the species was 



founded. See note under 26, A. Fischeri. 



26. A, Fischeri, N. E. Br. Leaf unknown. Peduncle 16-18 in. 

 (or more?) long, 3-4 lin. thick in the dried state, smooth. Spathe 

 convolute below; tube 2-3 in. long, campanulate-infundibuliform, 

 about 3 in. broad at the mouth, outside glabrous, green marked with 

 small white spots, inside dark coloured at the densely verrucose base 

 with a pale zone above it ; limb 4-6 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, more or 

 less spreading, broadly ovate, acute, undulated, both sides green, 

 sprinkled on the outside with small white spots, often broadly bordered 

 with purple. Spadix sessile, twice as long as the spathe ; flowering 

 part dense, female 5-9 lin. long, cylindric, male f-li in. long, 7-12 

 lin. thick at the top, obconic; appendix 10-16 in. long, 7-12 lin. thick 

 at the base, gradually tapering to the apex, smooth. Ovary sub- 

 globose, 2-celled ; stigma sessile, thick, 2-lobed. — Hydrosme Fischeri, 

 Engl. Jahrb. xv. 460, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 132; Durand k Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 474. 



nsozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Usukuma ; on the watershed of 

 Simiu, Fischer, 618 (ex Fn'gler) ; and without precise locality, KirJc ! British 

 Central Africa : in valleys near Boruma, on the Zambesi, MenyhartTi, 922 ! 



As I have not seen an authentic example of this plant I have compiled the above 

 description entirely from the specimens collected by Kirk and Menyharth, which I 

 believe to belong to this species, since they quite agree with Engler's description of 

 Sydrosme Fischeri, except in having the male part of the inflorescence slightly but 

 distinctly thickened upwards. The description in Engler's Jahrb. however, is 

 somewhat contradictory with regard to this character, as on pp. 458 and 461 the 

 male part of the spadix is stated not to thicken upwards, whilst on p. 460 it is des- 

 cribed as somewhat narromng towards the base. According to description, this species 

 appears to differ from A. maximus only by its thicker appendix. The leaves, how- 

 ever, distributed by Engler as Hydrosme maxima, have tuberculated petioles, and as 

 a rule the peduncle of the same plant would be tuberculated also, although nothing of 

 this kind is mentioned in the description. If the peduncle is tuberculated in A. 



