Descr. Stem very short, two to three inches high, ab 5 
thick as a child’s wrist, clothed with the membranous 
remains of old leaf-sheaths. Leaves crowded on the top of 
the stem; petiole rather slender, twelve to eighteen inches — 
long, dull green, as in the long coriaceous vagina, which is 
auricled at the top; blade a foot long, ovate-oblong, 
acuminate, base retuse, dark green above with a narrow 
yellow margin, pale and glaucous beneath. Pedunele half ‘A | 
as long as the petiole, rather slender, terete, dull green, 
streaked with dull red. Spathe oblong-lanceolate, long- 
acuminate, reflexed and sharply subrevolute, base rounded 
or obtuse, quite open, inner surface deep red-purple, outer 
dull yellow. Spadiz one and a half inch long, rather 
slender but club-shaped, pale yellow, curved or inclined. 
Mate fi. densely crowded and covering the clubbed apex, 
composed of linear anthers confluent into a columnar deeply 
grooved truncate mass, cells opening by terminal pores. 
Femate fl. Ovaries crowded, subglobose, surrounded by ~ 
two to four short clavate staminodes ; stigma of five sessile 
rays; ovules many, on five parietal placentas, orthotropous, — 
funicles slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of spathe and spadix; 2 and 3, transverse section of anthers ; 
4, group of ovaries and staminodes ; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6, ovules :— 
all enlarged. 
