beneath ; basal-lobes rounded ; sinus oblong; nerves ten to 
fifteen pairs, pale green or reddish, of which four to six 
pairs are recurved, and occupy the lobes, all uniting in a 
faint intramarginal nerve; petiole subterete, with about 
twelve sharply keeled parallel ridges, green, purple at the 
base; knee at the apex about an inch Jong, green. Spathe 
cylindric, a foot long, by one and a half inch diameter at 
the rather tumid rounded base, gently curved, elongate 
linear-lanceolate, narrowed at the rather thickened obtuse 
tip, margins incurved ; peduncle hardly an inch long, very 
stout, and like the spathe, dark violet-purple. Spadiv 
rather longer than the spathe, an inch in diameter, cylindric, 
gradually narrowed from the sessile base to the rounded 
tip, red-purple. Sepals linear, truncate, deeply grooved in 
front. filaments linear, flat; anthers shortly oblong. 
eit Sidhe into a very stout style, stigma simple.— 
Fig. 1, Section of petiole; 2, flowers; 3, fower with one sepal removed; 
4, « sepal; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, section of ovary :—All enlarged. 
