Descriprion.— Shrub, all parts glabrous. Stem stout, 
3-10 ft. high, 4-12 in. thick, clothed with the fibrous 
remains of old leaf-sheaths. Leaves long-petioled; blade 
11-34 ft. long, 7 in. to 2 ft. across, ovate acute or almost 
acuminate, deeply cordate or sagittate, the basal lobes 
rounded or deltoid, obtuse, with a wide triangular sinus 
between ; petiole stout, terete, long-sheathing, 2—44 ft. long, 
slightly concave or keeled above and somewhat concavely 
channelled on either side of the keel. Pedunele shorter 
than the petiole, green, terete, 1-1% in. thick. Spathe 
suberect, 14-2 ft. long; tube 3-5 in. long, oblong, green; 
blade 13-19 in. long, 3-5 in. across, lanceolate, acuminate, 
convolute below, somewhat flattened above, margins undu- 
late, yellow on both faces, Spadiz 10-16 in. long; female 
portion 2-33 in. long, neuter 14-2 in. long, male fertile 
portion 13-33 in. long, sterile upper portion 53-7 in. long, 
orange yellow. emale flowers naked, mixed at times with 
a few neuter flowers; ovary ovoid, 1-celled, 1-ovuled. 
Male flowers naked, the lower with 4—8 anthers connate in 
a truncate synandrium, the upper sterile. erry large. 
Seed 12-2 in. across, flattened-orbicular. 
A Fig. 1, sketch of plant, showing habit; 2, leaf and apex of petiole; 8, in- 
Orescence ; 4, part of spadix; 5, three barren male flowers; 6, a fertile male 
pha fi 7, two female flowers with a neuter organ between them; 8, longitudinal 
of a female flower and a neuter organ; 9, transverse section of an 
ovary -—1-8 reduced, 4 of natural size, 5-9 enlarged. 
