there are sundry inhabitants of other countries, it may well 
be that this is one of them. It is a noble species, and much 
handsomer than A. crassinervium or affine. It flowered 
first in June, 1881. 
Desor. Stemless. Jeaves four or five, suberect, dark 
shining green, not glaucous beneath ; blade narrowly oblong- 
obovate or -oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, thickly coria- 
ceous, flat; base shortly narrowed into the knee at the top 
of the petiole; midrib very stout, convex above, three-keeled 
at the back; principal nerves about ten pair, erecto-patent, 
very strong, irregularly connected into an obscure inter- 
rupted intermarginal nerve; secondary nerves reticulated, 
faint above except when dry; petiole one-third the length 
of the blade or less, subcylindric, of a dirty yellowish green, 
with short red-brown streaks. Spathe seven inches long 
by about one broad, linear-oblong, acuminate, shortly de- 
current on the peduncle, dirty green externally, dull vinous 
purple within, spreading horizontally and twisted in age. 
Spadiw erect, very shortly stoutly stipitate, eight inches 
- long by three-quarters of an inch in diameter at the base, 
gradually tapering from the base to the obtuse tip, of a 
fine vinous purple colour spotted with the black stigmas. 
Flowers minute, densely packed ; perianth-segments four, 
nearly square in outline and triangular in section, about 
one-twelfth of an inch long; tips truncate, quite flat. 
Filaments very broad; anther-cells oblong, half the length 
of the filament. Ovary narrowly turbinate ; stigma cushion- 
shaped, sunk in the top of the ovary.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, section of midrib of leaf; 3, portion of 
spadix with flowers ; 4, two flowers; 5 and 6, perianth-segments ; 7 and 8, stamens, 
9, ovary :—all but fig. 1 enlarged. 
