2yganthera.\ CL. aroide.e (brown). 101 



and Pseadhi/di'o.sme fjahunensis, Engl., are such, that tliey oupht not, in iny 

 opinion, to be placed in the same genus, 1 have, therefore, generically sepiirateil 

 thcin. Engler states that the spathe of the specimen of L. Biiifueri, ac»-ordiiig to 

 the collector's notes, has about 2 ft. of the upper part wanting ; it is, therefore, only 

 very shortly convolute at the base, and not nearly to the obliquely truncate U>\) as 

 in Pseiulhydrosme ; the anthers of Zyganihera are connate in pairs, the upper half 

 of the spadix is covered with barren organs, and the ovules are short and broad, whilst 

 in Pseiulhydrosme the anthers are free, different in character, the spadix has no barren 

 organs, and the ovules are long and narrow. 



6. PSEUDHYDROSME, Engl. Jahrb. xv. 455. 



Spathe funnel-shaped, convolute to the obliquely truncate top. 

 Spadix free, monoecious, fertile to the apex ; naale and female parts 

 contiguous; appendix none; staminodes or neuter organs none. 

 Perianth none. Ovary 2-celled ; style short ; stigma slightly bilobed. 

 Ovules solitary in each cell, affixed near the base of the axile placenta 

 on very short funicles, erect, anatropous. Anthers free, compressed, 

 2-celled ; connective rather broad, produced beyond the cells into a 

 transverse sub-bilobed knob \ cells linear, opposite. — A tuberous 

 rooted herb, flowering before the leaves appear. Leaves unknown. 

 Peduncle very short. 



An endemic monotypic genus. 



1. P. gabunensis, Engl. Jahrh. xv. 455, it. 15-lG. Leaf un- 

 iknown; peduncle about If in. long, enclosed by several cataphyllary 

 leaves, the longest of which are about 3-3| in. long. Spathe 12-lii 

 in. long, and about 8 in. diam. across the top, funnel-shaped, obliquely 

 "truncate, slightly undulated at the margin. Spacdix ?)\ in. long, about 

 1 in. thick, cylindric, obtuse, densely covered with unisexual flowers ; 

 female part about 1^ in. long; male part contiguous to the female, 

 densely covered with fertile anthers to the apex. Ovary oblong-ovoid, 

 narrowed into a short thick style ; stigma bilobed, not thicker than 

 the style. Anthers free, subsessile, linear-oblong ; connective produce<l 

 into a transverse thickened minutely papillate knob. — Engl, k, Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. Xachtr. zu ii.-iv. 59. P. gahoneiisis, Durand k, Schinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 475. 



XiO\(rer Guinea. Gaboon : Muuda district ; on the banks of Maveli River at 

 Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 299. 



I have not seen this plant. 



7. ANCHOMANES, Schott ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 

 PI. iii. 973. 



Spathe shortly convolute at the base, boat-shaped, at length deci- 

 duous. Spadix shorter than the spathe, free, monoecious, male and 

 female parts contiguous, no neuter organs or appendix. Perianth none. 

 Ovaries numerous, crowded, 1-celled; style deflexed or none; stigma 

 small. Ovule solitary, basal, erect, anatropous. Stiimens free ; anthers 



