semiterete, the flat surface having three obtuse ridges, 
dirty white mottled with grey; lamina four to five feet in 
diameter, horizontal with drooping leaflets, three-partite, 
each segment narrowly winged and bearing several pairs of 
very irregularly formed leaflets, some very small and 
obtuse; larger leaflets two to five inches long, finely 
acuminate, free or confluent at their base, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, unequal-sided, margins undulate or lobed 
or the larger pinnatifid, Peduncle with purple obtuse basal 
sheaths, erect, two to three feet high, as thick as the little 
finger, terete, minutely tubercled, pale purplish brown. 
Spathe five inches high, erect, narrowly cylindric-oblong, 
with a decurved acuminate tip, dull brown, faintly ribbed, 
open to the base, inner surface dark vinous purple. Spadir 
one-third the length of the spathe, subsessile, erect, 
cylindric, obtuse, blueish brown, dense-flowered. Perianth- 
segments six, spathulate with concave incurved tips. 
Stamens six, anthers exserted, oblong. Ovary subglobose, 
with a stout far-exserted style and minute papillose stigma; 
ovules attached above the base of the cells.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Tuber and bulbils (ha/f natural size); 2, petiole and segment of leaf _ 
(one-third of the natural size); 3, portion of petiole (of the natural size); 4, 
inflorescence ; 5, spadix (of the natural size) ; 6, two flowers seen from above; 7, — 
flower; 8, the same with the anthers. protruded ; 9 and 10, back and front views of 
perianth-segments; 11 and 12, front and back views of anthers; 13, ovary; 14, 
vertical section of ditto :—all enlarged. ee 
