Amorphophallus.] OLXVI. AEOIDE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 517 



12. A. burmanicus, Hook./.-, spathe broadly ovate from a short 

 tumid oblong tube erect, spadix far exserted, appendage ovoid or cylindric- 

 ovoid much shorter than the male infl. 



BURMA; on the Karen Hills, alt. 3000 ft., Kurz. 



Peduncle 4-6 in., much longer than the sheaths. Spathe 4-5 by 3-4 in., nearly 

 smooth within, tube 1| in. long. Spadix 3-6 in., male infl. 1-2 in., fern, -2 in. ; 

 appendage 1J in., anthers short, prismatic. Ovaries depressed-globose, with a short 

 stout style, stigma large, quite entire. Tuber and leaf wanting. 



13. A. heematospadix, Hook. f. ; spathe campanulate convolute 

 below dilating above into an ovate or ovate-lanceolate obtuse erect limb 

 with margins revolute all round the mouth of the tube nearly to the tip, 

 spadix stout exserted, appendage cylindric-clavate three times as long as 

 the infl. blood-red tip rounded. 



PENANG ? Curtis (Hort. Tew, 1892.) 



Tuber shortly turbinate, 2^ in. diam. Leaf about 20 in. diam. ; leaflets 5-7 in. 

 oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate ; petiole 16 in., very stout, green, terete below, 

 ribbed and keeled above. Peduncle 10 in., terete, brown, striated; sheaths appressed 

 to the base, red -brown. Spathe 5 in., limb primrose-yellow, tube striate with pink, 

 dark purple within. Spadix sessile, 7 in. ; infl. 1^ in., male 3 times as long as the 

 few-fld. fern. ; appendage f in. diam. at the thickest part. Anthers very short. 

 Ovary globose, narrowed into a short rather slender style, stigma small, capitate. 



14. A. elatus, ILooTc.f.; peduncle very tall rough, spathe lanceolate 

 acute erect sheathing for the lower half margins not revolute, Bpadix more 

 than twice as long as the spathe very stout, appendage more than 

 twice as long as the infl. narrowed from below the middle to the slender 

 tip. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Larut, Perak, Kunstler. 



Tuber and leaves unknown. Peduncle 3-4 ft., and petiole variegated green 

 brown white and red. Spathe 6 in., cream-colrd., membranous, appressed to the 

 spadix, apparently mottled ; tube 1J in. diam., base rounded. Spa'dix a foot long, 

 rather narrowed towards the base, about f in. diam. in the thickest part, dark and 

 light blue ; male infl. 3 in. j fern. 1| in. Anthers small, very short. Ovaries 

 globose ; style very short, stout, stigma capitate. A stately species, the colours are 

 taken from Kunstler's notes. The specimen is unique in Herb. Calcutta ; its nearest 

 ally is perhaps Blume's A. variabilis. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



A. GIGANTEUS, Blume Rumph. i. 147, t. 34, is not British Indian ; and the re- 

 ference under it to Denst. Clav. Hort. Mai. and Eheede Hort. Mai. should be 

 struck out. 



A. LYRATUS, Engler Arac. 319 (Arum lyratum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 508, Cono- 

 phallus lyratus, Schott Syn. 35 ; Prodr. 130) is according to Koxburgh's drawing 

 Tacca pinnatifida, with the detached berry of an Ar iscema ? 



A. TUBERCULIGER, Engler Arac. 317 ; tuber small, leaf 3-sect, branches 1-2 in. 

 pinnatifidly or pinnatisectly 3-5-foliolate, segments 3-4 by 1-1^ in. sessile elliptic- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate ; petiole 10-12 in. bearing a pisiform bulbil at the top. 

 Conophallus tuberculiger, Schott, Bonpland. (1859), 78 ; Prodr. 129. Khasia Hills, 

 alt. 3-4000 ft. J. D. H. and T. T. Described by Schott from leaves only. Engler 

 has added a description of the spathe of A. bulbifer, from the drawing of a Sikkim 

 specimen of that plant which he supposed to be the same. 



10. SYNANTHERIAS, Schott. 



Characters of AmormopJiallus, but male anc^ fern. infl. distant, with 

 oblong depressed interposed neuters. 



