but much shorter than the entire spatha, flexuose; the upper 
half naked : the lower clothed with flowers, of which the lower 
portion consist of pisti/s, rather crowded, ovate or obtusely 
tetragonal, tapering into a short style, terminated by the trun- 
cated stigma. Above the pistils the spadix is occupied by 
numerous filaments, terminated with a whorl of three or four 
globose antkers, opening by a transverse cleft, and above these, 
at the base of the naked portion of the spadix, are a few abortive 
pistils. The leaf appears after the flower, and is borne upon a 
long terete petiole, peltate and deeply cut into five or six ovato- 
lanceolate acuminate segments, each closely penninerved, and 
there is a nerve, or vein, running along within the margin. 
Fig. 1. Spadix. 2. Stamens, 3. Pistil, 4. Ovary, from which the seeds 
have started :—magnified. 
