Anchoma7ie8.] cl. aroide^ (brown). 1G3 



Engl. & Pranfcl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 120, and in Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. i:U ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 473 (excl. syn. Aviorphophallus 

 difformis). Caladium petiolatum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 372t^. Pijthonium 

 Hookeri, Kunth, Enum. iii. 81 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 527. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 107 ! and cultivated specimens from 

 Boultbee ! and Mann! Cameroons : Batanga, JSraun (ex Engler), Malimba, Brav.n 

 (ex Engler). 



This species, so far as I have seen specimens, appears to be confined to the island 

 of Fernando Po, and to differ from A. dubixis, Schott, in its larger leaflets and 

 tubercleJ ovaries. The Cameroons specimens are probably A. dubiuf. 



3. A. dubius, Schott, Prod. Aroid. 135. Leaf solitary, 2-3^ ft. 

 diam., produced after the flowers, armed with scattered prickles on the 

 petiole and its divisions ; petiole 3-5 ft. long, terete, dull green, with a 

 white spot above each prickle ; three primary divisions pinnatisect at 

 the base, once or twice dichotomously divided above ; terminal seg- 

 ments 4J-7 in. long, lJ-3 in. broad, bicuspidate. Peduncle 1J-2J ft. 

 (or more ?) long, prickly, dull green, marked with linear whitish spots. 

 Spathe 6-12 in. long, lJ-3 in. broad, boat-shaped, acute, shortly convo- 

 lute at the base, pale purplish on both sides or cream-coloured within. 

 Spadix sessile, 4^-8|^ in. long, about J in. thick, cylindric, obtuse ; 

 female part about 1 in. long, purple, the rest male. Ovary ovoid, 

 smooth ; style J-1 lin. long, stout, deflexed, smooth. Anthers cream- 

 coloured.— Masters in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiii. 668-669, fior. 152; Engl, 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 305 ; Engl. Jahrb. i. 486, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 B. 131, C. 131; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. iii. 126; Durand it 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 473 ; Rendie in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 87. 

 {A. Hooker i, Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 39, probably belongs 

 here.) Sauromatum ferox, Linden, Cat. 1856, 16. Amoijihophallus 

 difformis J Blume, R-umphia, i. 149 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 527. Cyrto- 

 sperma ? congoensis, L. Lind. Semaine Hort. 1900, 473, fig. 158. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4383 ! near 

 Buyabuya, Scott-Elliot, 4575! and without precise locality, Afzelius! Liberin, 

 cultivated specimens! Gold Coast, Burton Sf Cameron! Asbanti ; Assin-Yan- 

 Coomassie, Cummins, 211 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 502 partly ! Wari 

 (Oware), Beativois. Old Calabar, Holland, 21 ! 



JTlle Xiand. British East Africa: Jur ; Genana, near Jur Ghattas, Schicein- 

 furth, 1790 ! 1347 (ex Engler). 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon, Bellay, 273 (ex Engler). Congo, Smith! An- 

 gola : Golungo Alto; near Sange, at the spring of Capopa, and by tbe River Luina, 

 in the Sierra de alta Queta, 2000 ft., Welioitsch, 224 ! in wooded mountainous 

 places near the banks of rivulets around Sange, Bango Aquitainba, and Trombetn, 

 Welwitsch, 225 partly (ex Rendie) ; Cazengo ; in rocky wooded places on the biuiks 

 of the River Luinha, Welwitsch, 223 (ex Rendie); Pungo Ando:igo; in rocky 

 places of Mata de Pungo, near Pungo Audongo, Welwitsch, 1018 (ex Rendie)^ 

 and without precise locality, Montelro ! 



4. A. "Welwitschii, Rendie in Cat. Afr. PI. Wdw. ii. 88. Leaf 

 very similar to that of A. duhius, and of about the same size, produced 



