Corynophallus
(from koryne, a club, and phallos, a mace; alluding to the club-shaped appendix to the spadix). ORD. Aroideoe. A genus now included under Amorphophallus. For culture, &c., see Caladium.
C. Afzelii (Afzelius'). fl., spathe tubular below, expanding above into a broadly ovate-acute limb, marbled outside, purple within, and marked with white stripes; spadix dilated above into a club-shaped mass; produced at a different time from the leaves. l. on slender petioles 1ft. to 2ft. high; the limb is divided into three main divisions, each of which is again split up into three, rarely two, subdivisions, these latter are in their turn pinnatisect; ultimate segments varying in length and breadth, but always decurrent at the base, and sharply pointed at the apex. Tropical Africa, 1873. (G. C. 1872, 1619.) C. A. elegans (elegant).* l., segments very narrow, and more drooping than in either of the other varieties; leafstalk green, self-coloured. C. A. latifolia (broad-leaved). l., segments broader, and not so much subdivided as in the others; each main subdivision being divided into two segments, and these again bear two or three ultimate segments only. C. A. spectabilis (showy).* Lower part of the stem puce-coloured, and marked with dark linear oblong spots.