. debted to Mr. Bull’s horticultural skill and love of curious 
plants. ; 
Descr. Corm of irregular shape, about the size of a walnut, 
sending up several leaves and spathes at the same time, and 
then going to rest for a season. Leaves very variable in size 
and shape, 3-partite or 3-lobed, the segments or lobes five 
to seven inches long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate or linear, 
acuminate, the lateral spreading, all rather membranous, deep 
green; petiole five to ten inches long, stout, cylindrical. 
Scape one to three inches long, stout. Spathe four to seven 
inches long; tube globose or ovoid, green; limb broadly 
ovate, acuminate-concave, open, coriaceous, lurid purple 
within, and obscurely fasciated with darker transverse lines, 
margins recurved; back green, suffused with purple towards 
the margins. Spadir shorter than the spathe; male portion 
shortly conic, covered with densely-crowded ovaries; above 
this is a cylindric column, one to two inches long, covered 
for three-quarters of an inch at the base with deflexed circin- 
nate filaments (deformed ovaries) that descend over the 
ovaries, and no doubt entangle insects there; male portion 
half an inch long or more, cylindric, dull purple; appendix 
ovoid or subulate, one to five inches long, glossy dark-brown, 
obtuse acute or truncate. Anthers shortly cuneate, 4-celled, 
with four terminal pores. Ovaries 1-celled, with a subsessile 
peltate stigma; oyule one, ascending.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Spadix; 2, anther; 3, deformed ovary; 4, ovary; 5, vertical, and 
6, transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 
