

Descr. Stemless; root sub-globose. Leaves of young 

 plants oblong-lanceolate, simple, narrowed into the petiole ; 

 of full-grown plants four inches long, with a petiole as 

 long; blade hastate, acuminate, undulate, concave at the 

 base, with two lateral spreading horn -like horizontal basal 

 lobes, and between them two long linear erect ones that 

 are nearly as long as the blade, and face it ; these front 

 lobes have each on the outer margin below the middle a 

 curved horn-like process ; the leaves are dark green above, 

 very pale beneath; petiole stout, channelled in front. 

 Spathe seven inches long, on a very stout short green 

 unspotted cylindric peduncle ; tube one and a half inches 

 long by one broad, cylindric, faintly striate, pale green 

 without and within; lamina oblong, acuminate, very thick, 

 open, with rather recurved margins, dark maroon purple 

 within, pale green without, quite smooth without and 

 within. Spadix five inches long, slender ; male and female 

 portions each about a third of an inch long ; the inter- 

 vening portion as long as the male and female together, 

 loosely covered with dagger-shaped pistillodes; appendix 

 longer than the rest of the spadix, cylindric, smooth, 

 ragged at the tip, blue-black. Anthers red purple ; nearly 

 square, with rounded angles, adnate to a very short stout 

 filament; slits short, opening outward and upward. 

 Ovaries turgidly ovoid, truncate, crowned with a thickened 

 papillose ring, which surrounds a central short truncate 

 umbo; ovules 4 (in this specimen), erect. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Spadix; 2, 3, and 4, stamens; 5, ovarj ; 6, the same sliced vertically, 

 and 7, transversely ; 8, ovule : — all greatly enlarged. 



