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CLVIII. AROIDE^. 
[A morphophallus. 
5. AMORPHOPHALLUS, Bl. 
Herbs usually with large round tubers. Leaves produced singly 
from the top of the tuber, often very tall; petiole tall and stout, smooth 
mottled or scabrid, blade 3-lobed with pinnatisect segments. Spathe 
produced after the fall of the leaf, pediincled, tube convolute, limb 
usually broad. Spadix with a large conic or cylindric appendix. 
Male and female flowers usually numerous, dense, neuters o. Anthers 
3 or 4 sessile oblong cells with apical pores. Ovaries globose or 
flattened. Style short or long. Berries elliptic or sub-globose. 
Species about 40, tropics of the whole world. 
Style longer than ovary. 
Petiole scabrid; spathe very broad; peduncle 
short; appendage cone-shaped 
Style short; petiole smooth. 
Spadix little longer than spathe or shorter, base 
tubular. 
Bulbiferous; appendage fusiform; male flowers 
scattered ...... 
Not bulbiferous; appendage cylindric-conic; 
flowers crowded; spadix 6 in. long . 
Not bulbiferous; appendage cylindric-conic; 
male flowers very numerous, crowded; 
spadix 3 in. long .... 
Not bulbiferous; appendage cylindric-conic; 
spathe limb green, oblong, cleft to base , 
Not bulbiferous; appendage very attenuate . 
Spadix longer than spathe. 
Appendage large, conic. 
Spathe yellow; ovaries discoid . 
Spathe flesh colour; ovaries flask-shaped 
Appendage long, cylindric. 
Peduncle i ft. tall; leaf 5-lobed . 
Peduncle 2 to 3 ft. tall; leaf pinnatisect 
Peduncle 3 ft. tall; leaf 3-branched, lobes 
3 or 4 on each branch .... 
(1) A. campanulatus 
(2) 
(3) 
A. sparsiflorus 
A. bufo 
(4) A. minor 
(5) 
( 6 ) 
(7) 
( 8 ) 
(9) 
(10) 
A. viridis 
A. perakensis 
A. Prainii 
A. carnosus 
A. haematospadix 
A. variabilis 
(ii) A. elegans 
(i) A. campanulatus BL Rimphia, i. 139, t. 32, 33. A. malac- 
censis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 41, p. 46; Mat. iii. 12. 
Tuber hemispheric, brown, 6 in. across, warted. Leaf, petiole 
5 ft. tall, I in. through, green, scabrid, blade 5 ft. acro.ss, light green, 
lobes 6 to 10 in. long, acuminate. Peduncle stout, 2 or 3 in. long, 
growing to 30 in. long in fruit. Spathe broadly campanulate, tube 
pale pinkish and greenish with white spots, 3 to 4 in. long, limb 
undulate spreading, red brown, 12 to 18 in. across. Spadix about 
18 in. tall. Appendage large, conoid, blunt, WTinkled and indented, 
deep red brown, 6 in. long. Male portion cylindric, 3 in. long; 
anthers oblong, crowxled. Female portion longer than male, 3*5 in. 
long; styles -25 in. long. Drupes red, -5 in. long, numerous on a 
stout peduncle, 30 in. tall. Hab. Open pastures and borders of 
woods, not rare. Very foetid of carrion when first open. Malacca, 
Panchur (Goodenough); Bukit Payong (Hervey). Pahang, Kw'ala 
