as is common to the genus, green on both sides, pinnatedly 

 veined, veins faint. Scape chiefly included within the sheathing 

 bases of the leaves, prolonged a few inches beyond the petiole of 

 the uppermost leaf. Spike short, of not more than four or five 

 orange-red spathes, of which the inferior one is flowerless, about 

 four inches long, its upper half green ; the rest are much smaller 

 and gradually shorter upwards, each bearing two to three or four 

 white flowers in the axil, and with whitish-green ovaries. 



Fig. 1. Flower from which all the sepals but the dwarfed one have been 

 removed, — magnified. 



