to Dr. Masters. Iu the description accompanying the 

 figure in the " Gardener's Chronicle " the peduncle of the 

 spathe is said to be hardly shorter than the petioles, and 

 our drawing would appear to confirm this ; but I am 

 assured by Mr. Brown that the figure in the " Chronicle" 

 which represents the peduncle as about half the length of 

 the petiole is its normal condition. It will be observed 

 that' the reduced figure of the spathe in the plate 6968 is 

 not represented in situ. 



Desce. Caudex short, erect, leafy in our specimen to the 

 base, and emitting roots from near the bases of the petioles. 

 Leaves disposed in a symmetrical crown four or five feet in 

 diameter, formed of eight or more leaves, whose petioles 

 rise almost perpendicularly from the caudex, then curve 

 outwards and bear pendent blades upwards of four feet 

 long by nearly a foot broad ; petiole terete, not grooved, 

 with a swollen joint an inch long at the top ; blade linear- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate, deeply cordate at the base, 

 with a narrow sinus or overlapping lobes, bright green and 

 shiny above, pale and suffused with brownish-green beneath ; 

 midrib and nerves deeply sunk, the latter very numerous, 

 forty or more pairs, carved with the concavity towards 

 the apex of the leaf, and with the leaf surface raised 

 between them in smooth symmetrical transverse semi- 

 lunar ridges. Peduncle about half the length of the 

 petioles, stout, terete, smooth below, ribbed under the 

 spathe. Spathe a foot long, horizontal, green, caudate at 

 the tip, dilated and subcordate at the base. Spadix six 

 inches long by one in diameter, erect, sessile, cylindric, 

 obtuse, straw-coloured. Perianth-segments nearly square 

 in outline, convex dorsally, concave ventrally, with truncate 

 rounded tips ; filaments very broad ; anthers erect. Ovary 

 elongate - conical, two-celled, cells one-ovuled; stigma 

 minute. — J. 1). H. 



Plate 6968 represents a plant of A. Yeitchii reduced to one-fourth the natural 

 size, and a spadix with its spathe of the natural size. Fig. 1, Flowers in a 

 fragment of the spadix ; 2 and 3, segments of perianth ; 4 and 5, front and back 

 view of stamens ; 6, ovary ; 7, the same with one cell Cut open, showing the ovule ; 

 8, tamsverse section of ovary ; 9, ovule : — all enlarged. 



