pale, fan-like blotches of pale green, extending between the 
nerves from the midrib to about half way across the blade, 
beneath of a fine vinous purple ; petiole about an inch long, 
very stout, purplish brown, auricles of sheath rounded. 
Spike cylindric, four inches long by one and a half in 
diameter, erect; peduncle two inches long, stout, terete, 
dirty green. Bracts large, loosely imbricate, one to one 
and a half inches broad, orbicular-obovate, suddenly acute, 
base shortly sheathing, bright straw-coloured, margined 
with red.. Flowers rather longer than the bracts, white. 
Sepals linear, acute. Corolla-tube one and a half inches 
long, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower-bud with the corolla-lobes spread out; 2, androecium; 
3, staminode; 4, ¢ £ ; ieee d view of 
ea duae op of style and stigma :—All enlarged. 5, Reduced vi 
