intervals of two inches. Leaves five to six, erecto-patent, 
pinnate, six to seven feet long; petiole slender, with a long 
cylindric sheath ; leaflets about ten to fifteen pair, drooping, 
one to one and a half feet long, alternate, oblong-lanceolate 
from a broad sessile base, gradually narrowed to a very fine 
point, plicate with about thirty ribs, bright green above, 
rather pale beneath ; petiole nearly terete. Inflorescence from 
below the leaves. Spathes many, sheathing, cylindric, six to 
ten inches long, forming a tube a foot long, which completely 
conceals the peduncle of the spadix, lightly rolled together 
with subacute erect tips, the uppermost far exceeding the 
spadix, green, or the lower brown. Male spadix subumbel- 
lately branched within the spathes, the branches effuse, 
pendulous, a foot long and as thick as the little finger, 
cylindric, pale straw-coloured, dense-flowered, terminated 
by the naked subulate tip. lowers about one-sixth of an 
inch diameter; calyx very short, three-toothed; corolla- 
lobes rounded, concave, fleshy ; stamens six, filaments very 
thick, anther-cells divaricate; pistillode columnar, tip 
three-lobed. Female spadix simple, erect, six inches long, 
rather stouter than the branches of the male spadix. 
Petals transversely oblong, concave; staminodes none; 
ovary subglobose, three-lobed; stigmas three, minute, 
sessile, trigonous.”—J. D. H. 7 
' Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the whole plant; 2, leaflet; and 3, male spadix of the 
natural size; 4, outer, and 5, inner view of male flower; 6 and 7, stamens; 8, 
pistillode :—ald enlarged. 
