natural size. It has been introduced by Lord Caernarvon, 
and raised in his hothouse at Highclere, where it flowered 
in March last, for the first time in this country. We 
believe that it is not yet in any other collection. 
A stately species, and said by Dr. Roxburgh to be na- 
tive of Pegu, whence it was sent by Mr. Felix Carey to 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it thrives and bears 
ripe fruit. The scent of the flowers is described as plea- 
sant; to us it resembled that of ripe apples. 
In two years the plant will acquire a szem of the thick- 
ness of a man's arm, and the height of two feet; with 
the leaves of six or eight feet. The blade of the leaf 
is from two to four feet long, and from two to three broad, 
has a smooth surface with broad thick nerves conspi- 
cuously varicose at the under side: the petiole is from two 
to three feet long, forming a sheath at the lower half, from 
thence a cylindrical shaft. The spathe decays and falls off 
in an early stage at the upper half, while the lower becomes 
the permanent envelope of the seed. "The berries are of a 
bright scarlet colour, and about the size of a small cherry. 
In Arum the spadix is naked at the upper part, stami- 
niferous at the middle, and germiniferous at the base; 
in CaLapium the upper part is covered by a close numerous 
spike of stamens and sometimes terminated by a naked 
point, the middle is glandular, and the base covered with 
germens. 
