Duscr. Tuber the size of a tolerable potato, oblate, smooth, 
brown, with many stout branching rootlets from the crown. 
Leaf one to two feet long, deep green, broadly ovate in out- 
line, pinnatifid ; two lower segments deflexed, deeply cut into 
three to five lanceolate acuminate lobes ; remaining segments 
four to six pairs, sessile, remote (contiguous in Vellozo’s 
figure), lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly sinuate-lobed or 
quite entire, broadly decurrent ; petiole six to twelve inches 
long, cylindric, whitish, closely striate or irrorate, with short 
vertical black-purple streaks, that are obliquely confluent 
above. Scape similar to the petiole. Spathe two to four 
inches long, erect, cylindric, acute, with a narrow opening 
above and recurved edges, deep green externally and speckled 
with brown, reticulate internally. Spadiz cylindric, upper 
half male, lower or female half very obliquely adnate for half 
its length to the back of the spathe. 4zthers scarlet, trun- 
cate, with a circle of three to twelve pores. Ovaries white 
with green stigmas, seated on a cushion consisting of im- 
perfect anthers, 3-5-celled; stigmatic rays three to five, 
cuneate, notched.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Spadix :—of the natural size ; 2, anther ; 3 and 4, transverse sections 
of ditto :—all magnified. 
