frequently sending out s¢o/ones, which bear sheathing scales, and 
sometimes clusters of bulbs, which terminate in one to three long 
slender filaments. These stolones are probably more freely pro- 
duced from non-flowering plants. Our own plants have not yet 
produced these: the former are represented by Klotzsch, .c.; the 
latter in Schott’s ‘Genera Aroidearum,’ t. 39. Leaves ovate, . 
very acute, six to ten inches long, cordato-ovate, dark green 
above, pale beneath, entire, penniveined, with slender: veinlets 
between, which meet and anastomose slightly: there is also an 
intramarginal veinlet. Petiole longer than the leaf, peltately 
inserted at some distance from the base. Spatha pedunculate, 
tawny-yellow, a span to a foot long, subulato-lanceolate, convo- 
lute, the very base tumid, then bent at an angle (geniculated), 
above that also tumid, but partially open, so as to expose to view 
the apex of the spadix. Spadir short, an inch and a half long, . 
clavate, the base beset with pzstils, the slender portion with im- 
perfect anthers, the clubbed apex with perfect anthers of a purple 
colour, each opening by four pores. 
Fig. 1. Spadix, removed from the spatha. 2. Anther. 3. Transverse section 
of ditto. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse section of the ovary. 6. Vertical section of 
the same :—more or less magnified. 
