162 CL. AROJDE.E (brown). [Anckomanes^ 



sessile, 4-celled ; connective thick, truncate; cells confluent in pairs at 

 the apex, opening by terminal pores. Berry ovoid, 1 -seeded. E-ipe 

 seeds not seen. — Tuberous-rooted herbs, producing flowers and leaves 

 at the same or different times. Leaf solitary ; petiole tall, prickly, 

 3-branched at the top ; branches dichotomously divided, pinnatipartite ^ 

 lateral leaf-segments lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, acute, acuminate or 

 cuspidate ; terminal segments cuneate -oblong, bicuspidate at the apex. 

 Peduncle solitary, tall, prickly (smooth in 6. A. Boehmii). 



An endemic genus of 4 species. The leaf of A. Boehmii is unknown, and thi& 

 species may prove not to belong to the genus Anchomanes. 

 Peduncle prickly ; spathe 5 in. to 3 ft. long. 

 Ovary and style tubercled. 



Spathe about 3 ft. long . . . . . 1. A. gigantevus. 



Spathe 5-9 in. long . . . . . . 2,. A. Hookeri. 



Ovary (and style when present) smooth. 



Style |-1 lin. long Z. A. duhiiisi. 



Style ; stigma sessile . . . . , A. A. Welwitschii.. 



Peduncle smooth ; spathe 1— 1^ in. long . . . 6. A. Boehmii. 



1. A. giganteus^ ^nyl. Jahrb. xxvi. 419. Tuber very large. 

 Leaf present at the time of flowering, about 3J ft. diam. ; petiole 

 attaining a height of 8 ft., prickly ; the 3 primary divisions of the leaf 

 2-3-pinnatisect, lowest segments subtripartite, following segments pin- 

 natisect, with 2-3 pairs of leaflets, ultimate segments much larger and 

 bipinnatisect ; lowest of the tertiary segments ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute ; middle pinnatipartite, with about 2 pairs of leaflets ; ultimate 

 pinnatipartite, with about 3 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets obliquely oblong- 

 lanceolate, decurrent on the rhachis. Peduncle 5-5J ft. long, prickly. 

 Spathe 3 ft. long, elongated-lanceolate, scarcely acuminate. Spadix 

 sessile; female part 3-4 in. long; male part 6—8 in. long, f-lj in., 

 thick. Ovary shortly ovoid ; style tuberculate. — De Wild. & Durand,. 

 Oontrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 64. 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : Umanghi Island in the Congo, Laurent^ 

 I have not seen this species. 



2. A. Hookeri, Schott in Oesterr. Bot. WochenU. 1853, 314. Leaf 

 solitary, 2J-5J ft. diam., armed with scattered prickles on the petiole- 

 and its divisions ; petiole terete, 3-6 ft. high, variegated with purplish 

 and green ; three primary divisions pinnatisect at the base, once or 

 twice dichotomously divided above ; terminal segments 6-9 in. long^ 

 3-4| in. broad, bicuspidate. Peduncle lJ-3 ft. high, terete, prickly, 

 coloured like the petiole. Spathe 5-9 in. long, l|-2 in. broad, oblong 

 (boat-shaped), acute, shortly convolute at the base, purple inside and 

 out, or the inside greenish sufllused with purple. Spadix 1|-5J in. 

 long, 4-6 lin. thick, cylindric, tapering towards the obtuse apex ; female 

 part |-1 J in. long, purple. Ovary ovoid, tubercled ; style about 1 lin. 

 long, deflexed, tuberculate. Anthers cream-coloured. — Schott, Gen. 

 Aroid, t. 34, Synop. Aroid. 71, and Prod. Arwd. 134. A. Hookeri^ 

 var. pallida, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5394. A. diformis, Engl, in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. ii. 304, in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. 1889, ii. 149, in 



