many of them indeed imperfectly, but all differing so materially 
from this, that I have no hesitation in describing it as new; 
it is further one of the few stemless species, and is con- 
spicuous for the sprinkling of blood-coloured spots on the 
spathe. It flowered in May, 1871, and was, we believe, sent 
from the Blumenau Gardens in South Brazil by Victor 
Geertner, in 1868. 
Descr. Stem none, or a short stock, clothed with brown 
fibrous sheaths that embrace the bases of the petioles. Petzole 
two and a half to three feet long, swollen at the base, 
cylindric except for about a quarter of the circumference, 
which is concave, with obtuse, raised edges. Blade of the 
leaf two feet long, broadly sagittate-ovate, bright-green and 
glossy, pinnatifid half-way to the middle; lobes regular, 
upeurved, linear, obtuse, rather broader than the obtuse 
intervening sinus; auricles (or posterior lobes) about one 
quarter as long as the blade, approximate or touching, with 
a narrow obtuse included sinus, the nerve marginal on the 
sinus, outer side cut like the rest of the blade into four or 
five lobes ; cost of the lobes very strong, rounded ; nerves 
slender, oblique, anastomosing within the margin. Spathes 
crowded, almost sessile, five to six inches long, white sprinkled 
with blood-red ; tube greenish, rather narrowly obovoid, one 
and a half to one and three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; 
blade longer, oblong, boat-shaped, abruptly acuminate, margins 
hardly reflexed. Spadix as long as the spathe, female portion 
three inches long, conical, three-quarters of an inch in diameter 
at the base, which is obliquely adnate to the spathe; male 
portion about twice as long, obtuse, pale dirty yellow. Anthers 
sessile. Ovary broadly turbinate, 5-celled ; stigma of five 
sessile lobes; ovules many in each cell.—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of entire plant ; 2, spathe; 3, spadix: both of the 
natural size ; 4, ovary; 5, vertical, and 6, transverse section of the same; 7, 
=m beige stamens from above the ovaries; 8, perfect stamens :—all mag- 
nified. 
