Hydrosme] XX, AROIDER, 87 
tremely foetid. Sporadic in the huge shady rocky valleys in the pre- 
sidium. In fl. Dec. 1856 and Jan. 1857. No. 228. A unique specimen. 
The following number also probably belongs to this species :— 
Cazenco.—Petiole straight, solid, 4 inch thick, 3} 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 & 
Schinz, J.c., p. 474. 
Corynophallus Afzelii Schott in Ost. Bot. Wochenbl., J.c. 
C. leonensis Eng). in DC. Mon, Phan. ii. p. 326 (1879). 
Srerra Leone.—Herb-grown slopes of the mountains near Free- 
ao plentiful, but leaves only were seen; Sept. 1853. 
o. 219. 
5. ANCHOMANES Schott; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 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 & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 473. 
GoLunco ALTo.—<A very distinct genus, near Amorphophallus and 
Pythonium 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 1} in. thick, 5 to 11 ft. 
high, bristling with prickles, dividing above into three compound 
.pinnatifid lamine, and having at the base membranous papery sheaths 
4 to 14 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 isa dark, less often a shining, glistening green. 
Berries oblong-clubshaped, 4 to % in. long, livid 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 1856 ; 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 
