Seeds of M. Hillii were received at Kew from F. M. j 
Bailey, Esq., F.L.S., Colonial Botanist, Queensland, in’ 
March, 1889, from which the plant here figured was raised. — 
It flowered in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in | 
December, 1893. : 
Deser.—Caudex attaining 30 ft. in height, and 18 inches 
in diameter at the base, stoloniferous, cylindric. Leaves 
as of M. sapientum, attaining 15 feet in length, base — 
cuneate; petiole long. Spike erect, three to four fee 
high, cylindric. Bracts six inches long and upwards 
ovate, obtuse, pale yellow-green, with a brown tip. Mat 
FL. very many in a bract, two inches long, narrow, slightl 
curved, sub 4-angled, pale yellowish. Calywx-teeth short 
obtuse, two lateral rather the largest, these and the media 
tipped terminating in thickened rugose spindle-shaped 
prolongation of the midrib; two intermediate much th 
smallest. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, one-fourth shorte 
than the corolla. Anthers pale pink, about as long as th 
filaments. Fra. ri. pentandrous. Perianth shorter tha 
in the male. Ovary short, ovoid, 8-gonous ; style clavate 
stigma three-lobed. Fruit two to two and a half inche 
long, sessile, ovoid, acutely angled, truncate, fleshy. See 
very rth 4-5 in. diam., much depressed ; testa black.— 
Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, the same, with the calyx narrowed; 3, anther, 4% 
enlarged; 4, bract and mal flower: : nat. sid 
6, reduced view of whole aks Pa mms Sowers, both. of 
