of the petiole, six to ten inches long by one to three and a 
half broad, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed to the 
sessile base, tips drawn out into filiform points, bright green, 
with paler flat or undulated margins; midrib usually red}; 
two outer leaflets like the others, or unequal at the base, 
being dilated outwardly. Scape equalling or shorter than 
the petioles, transversely barred like these, and usually 
stouter. Spathe three to seven inches long ; sheathing portion 
cylindric, dirty green, striped with dull red; lamina as long 
as the sheath, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, the upper half curving 
forwards and drooping, base on each side dilated into a 
recurved rounded auricle, which is very dark green, with 
broad red-brown margins, and dark elongated spots; back of 
spathe pale yellow-brown, irregularly spotted. Spadix erect. 
Ovaries close-set, dark green, with short conical straight dark 
styles. Appendage stipitate, elongate, terete, swollen at the 
rounded base and tip, gradually narrowed towards the centre 
pale yellow, almost wholly exserted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Spadix; 2, ovary; 3, the same cut vertically :—all enlarged. 
