Hydrosme] xx. aroide-e. 87 



tremely foetid. Sporadic in the huge shady rocky valleys in the pre- 

 sidium. In fl. Dec. 1856 and Jan. 18,')?. No. 228. A unique specimen. 

 The following number also probably belongs to this species : — 

 Cazengo.— Petiole straight, solid, h inch thick, 3J ft. long, trifid 

 at the apex, smooth or shortly muriculate. Plentiful, but only seen 

 in one place, by the streams of Muscaula near the cataract. In fruit 

 and leaf Dec. 1854. No. 227. 



2. H. leonensis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. i. p. 187 (1881); Durand & 

 ^chinz, I.e., p. 474. 



Corynojihallus Afzelii Schott in Ost. Bot. Wochenbl., I.e. 



C. leonensis Engl, in DC. Mon. Phan. ii. p. 326 (1879). 



Sierra Lkone. — Herb-grown slopes of the mountains near Free- 

 town. Somewhat plentiful, but leaves only were seen ; Sept. 1853. 

 No. 219. 



5. ANCHOMANES Schott; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 973. 



1. A. dubius Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 135(1860); Engl, 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. ii. p. 305, Bot. Jahrb. i. p. 486 ; Durand & 

 Scliinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 473. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A very distinct genus, near Amorpliophallwi and 

 Pythonhim in habit, but distinguished by its uninterruptedly andro- 

 :gynous spadix covered with stamens right to the tip. A huge herb, 

 with a very large tuber, as big as a child's head, fleshy and succulent, 

 white inside, dark-coloured outside ; growing up in the spring, foretell- 

 ing the first rains. Flowers appearing long before the leaf. Tuber 

 ■cylindrical-ovate, 1 to 2 ft. below the surface. Scape 2 to 4 ft., green, 

 hard, fleshy, solid, muricate, cylindrical. Spathe white, becoming dark 

 with age, 1 to 14 ft. long, thick, fleshy, stiff, brittle, lanceolate, involute, 

 nearly straight, slightly hooded at the top. Spadix in well-developed 

 specimens a foot long. Ovaries dull red or a greenish-livid colour, 

 ■conical, almost with no style, stigma apiculate ; anthers prismatic, 

 whitish-yellow. Leaf solitary, huge in old specimens and umbrella- 

 like with a narrow green cylindrical stalk 1 to Ii in. thick, 5 to 11 ft. 

 high, bristling with prickles, dividing above into three compound 

 pinnatifid laminge, and having at the base membranous papery sheaths 

 ^ to 1| ft. long, of a rose- or flesh-colour streaked with purple. Full- 

 grown leaves of old individuals are in their umbrella-like expansion 

 12 to 14 ft. in circumference, and form one of the grandest ornaments 

 of the high valleys. The first division of the leaf is radiate trifid, the 

 further divisions are mostly dichotomous but always in the same plane. 

 The colour of the leaf is a dark, less often a shining, glistening green. 

 Berries oblong-clubshaped, i to 5 in. long, hvid purple, 1-seeded. 

 Flowers from September to November ; leaf perfected in March and 

 April. Plentiful in mountainous rather shady places by riversides 

 throughout the whole district, up to about 2000 ft. elevation. Near 

 Sange, in fl. Nov. 1854. Rocky places on the river Luinha in the Serra 

 de Alto Queta, Oct. 1855. At the spring of Capopa, March 1855. 

 No. 224. In fr. June 18.")G ; berries like an olive, black or violet-purple. 

 Coll Carp. 1017. Specimens of scape and leaves illustrating the 

 evolution of an individual. Wooded mountainous places near the 

 banks of rivulets round Sange, Bango-Aquitamba and Trombeta, 

 •Sept. and Feb. 1856. No. 225 (in part). The appearance of this plant 

 at the end of the winter season (August and Sept.) is a sign of the 



