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Amorphophallus (Supplement)

Including Hydrosme. This genus comprises about twenty-five species, inhabiting tropical Asia and Africa, the Malayan Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. To those described on p. 65, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. Leopoldianus (Leopold II.'s). fl., spathe reddish-violet, expanded shortly pedunculate, the lamina oval-lanceolate, long-acuminate, the margins undulated; spadix 2ft. to 2 1/4ft. long, cylindrical. l. horizontally spreading, 2 1/2ft. to 3ft. in diameter, trifariously palmately divided, the division bisected; segments oblong-lanceolate, loosely and irregularly bi-tripinnatisect, the ultimate segments 1 1/4in. to 2 1/4in. long; petioles about 1 3/4ft. high, terete, dotted. Congo, 1887. SYN. Hydrosme Leopoldiana (I.H. ser. v. 23)

A. Teuszii (Teusz's). fl., spathe green outside, dark purple-brown within, 6in. long, with a short, ovoid tube, and an open, trifid limb; spadix rather shorter than the spathe, with a greenish, cylindric appendix; peduncle very short. l. solitary, tripartite, with bipinnatifid-branched divisions; ultimate segments linear lanceolate. Western tropical Africa, 1884. SYN. Hydrosme Teuszii (R. G. 1142).

A. virosus (venomous). fl., spathe externally pale green, spotted white and margined purple, within purple at the rugose base, rich cream in the middle, and purple in the upper part, 9in. long, 6in. in diameter; spadix about 7in. long, with a brownish or purplish, sub-globose, rugulose appendix. Siam, 1885. Much like A. campanulatus, but with a smaller inflorescence.