lateral five, the central six and a quarter inches broad; 
margins crenulate, red, upper surface with close set im- 
pressed veins, which are prominent and reddish beneath, 
bright pale-green. Peduncle not one quarter as long as the 
petiole, stout, erect, dull green, without markings. Spathe 
four inches long, erect, cylindric for the most part of its 
length, one inch in diameter, and very slightly curved, 
rather dirty-green, with about twenty pale almost white 
ridges faintly tinged with pink; top of spathe suddenly 
decurved, and ending in pendent green ovate acute lamina, 
that is given off below a rounded boss-like crown, upon 
which the ridges terminate; margins of the lamina pro- 
duced along the mouth of spathe as two narrow recurved 
lips. Spadi#, male only seen, with a very short reddish 
flowering portion, loosely covered with small stipitate 
anthers; appendix almost white, sessile on the flowering 
portion by its truncate base, elongate conical, gradually 
narrowed into a filiform tail ten inches long, the end of 
which rests on the ground.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, much reduced figure of whole plant; 2, leaf reduced about one-half; 
3, spathe, and 4, spadix of the natural size; 5, anther before dehiscence; 6, the 
same after the pollen is shot :—both enl arged. 
