throe inches in diameter ; Bpathe broad, ovate, about an 

 inch long, entire or bifid, green or tinged with red; pedicels 

 about an inch lo! th dark mauve-purple, a 



quarter of an inch long ; segments lanceolate, keeled with 

 green, spreading widely when fully expanded. Stamen* 

 uniform ; filaments subulate, rather longer than the peri- 

 anth segments; anthers small, oblong, mauve purple. 

 / stipitate, globose, acutely trigonous, not papillose ; 

 style reaching up to the anthers; stigma minutely tri- 

 cnspidate. — J. '/'. Bah r. 



I iir. 1, The whole plant, much redic _. leaf; tig. 3, umbel, and apex of 



scape, both life-size; fig. 4, an entire flower; figs. 5 and C, stamens; tig. 7, 

 pistil : — all more or less enlarged. 



