two feet in our plant, terete, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 
digitate ; petiole about six inches long, slender, terete, with 
an oblong thickened joint at the top; leaflets about eight, 
eight to ten inches long, very narrow, linear-lanceolate, about 
half an inch broad, narrowed at the tip into long, slender, 
incurved points, and at the base into very short, channelled — 
stalks, dark green above, the intra-marginal nerve connected 
with the midrib by regular, spreading, delicate venules, paler 
beneath. Peduncle about an inch long, stout, erect. Spathe 
two inches long, ovate-lanceolate, greenish-white. Spadix as 
long as the spathe, stout, sessile, purplish when the flowers 
are fully expanded. %laments very broadly oblong ; anthers 
broad, with rather large pores. Ovary broadly ovoid; stigma 
sessile, square, with obtuse angles.— J. D. #7. 
Fig. 1, Flowers seen from above; 2, side view of a flower; 3, ovary -—ail 
magnified, ‘ 
