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compound leaf, which is three feet or more in height and bears 
conspicuous bulbs. It was these bulbs that first attracted my 
attention, ere they very much resemble the common hard- 
skinned pu , Scleroderma aurantium, in size and general 
appearance. 
There are several species in the genus ean and the 
flowers of most of them are extremely malodorous, as he 
pe genus Phallus, the spores of which are caus ted by 
means of files. Some species of Smilax, known as cat-briar or 
carrion-flower, also attract flies seeking suitable places for de- 
positing their eggs. 
ecies in question occurs in Bengal, India, where it 
a 
ct. 
at P' 
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (46: #1. ets ars the ae 
statement: 
ee bulbiferum, root tuberous, leaves compound, bulb- 
bearing, native of Bengal, plentiful in the woods in the neighbor- 
of eels doweone i in May. Soon at the dey of 
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the rainy season. The plate was drawn in 1813, the flower in 
May an the leaf some weeks later, in the greenhouse of James 
nd.” 
A few years later, the same magazine published a better draw- 
ing : ae plant (51: pl. 2508), is ie following notes: 
s magnificent species of Arum, of which | we believe no 
us i 
4. 
lower was drawn of its natural size, but the leaf, which 
was nearly three feet high, and spread over an area of several 
square feet, was from necessity extremely diminished. Bulbs 
are formed always at the primary, ae sometimes at all ine 
divisions of the leaf, from whence th derived. 
Ww. A. Mavi 
