about six, oblong, spreading, white dracts, of which the three 
inner are spotted with red: these are persistent, and as the fruc- 
tification advances they are reflected, and turn brown: there are 
also several white, spathulate dracts among the flowers. Each 
flower consists of a pestil, with three, blunt, subulate, moderately 
spreading, or rather erecto-patent, styles. The ovary is one- 
celled, and is incorporated with, and immersed in, the substance 
of the spadix; and from the summit of this ovary are six sta- 
mens, three alternating with the styles, and three opposite to 
them. Stigmas obtuse. Ovules in three clusters, from vertical 
persisting receptacles. 
Fig. 1. Transverse section of a spadix, with flowers, and the smaller interior 
bracts. 2. Flower, cut out from the spadix. 3. Transverse section of the 
ovary. 4. Stamen. 5. One of the inner bracts :—all more or less magnified. 
