four to six inches in diameter, membranous and quite 
pellucid, broadly and very obliquely ovate-cordate or orbi- 
ceular-cordate, obscurely angularly lobed and denticulate, 
ciliolate, above very pale green with white spots, glabrous 
or obscurely hairy, beneath pale dull red-purple, slightly 
_ hairy between the very hairy strong nerves ; petiole four to 
six inches long, pale green, laxly clothed with soft spreading 
hairs. Scape shorter than the petiole, clothed at the very 
base with ovate acuminate erect dark brown sheathing 
scales, pale green, nearly glabrous. Cyme of two short 
spreading branches, bearing each a very few pale rose- 
coloured flowers, of which one or more is a female; bracts 
small, lanceolate; pedicels half an inchlong or more. MALE 
FLOWER One inch and a half in diameter. Perianth-segments 
four, spreading, anterior and posterior broadly ovate, 
obtuse ; two lateral narrower, oblong. Stamens in a dense 
globose head, filaments short free; anthers small broad, 
with a tumid subacute connective and short lateral cells. 
FEMALE FLOWER smaller and darker coloured. Perianth- 
segments eight, broadly oblong. Ovary three-angled, two- 
celled, one angle shortly produced into an obtuse wing. 
Styles three, short, dilating into a truncate twisted lobed 
stigma; ovules on all sides of the projecting placentas in 
each cell.—J, D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, styles; 3, transverse section of ovary :— all enlarged. 
