of the highly valued correspondent who contributed it to our 
collections. 
Descr. Trunk two to four feet high, two to three inches in 
diameter, branched, brown, covered with suborbicular leaf 
scars, emitting numerous cylindric brown roots half an inch 
in diameter. Leaves numerous, one to two and a half feet 
long, sagittate, bright green, with pale veins above, paler 
beneath, with dull purple midrib and veins, coriaceous, acute 
or cuspidate, anterior portion obscurely lobed, with five to 
six pairs of spreading principal veins and innumerable inter- 
mediate ones; posterior lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, costa of 
these marginal at the base of the sinus only; petiole two to 
two and a half feet long, slender, terete, grooved above, 
thickened at the base but not at the top, quite smooth, 
green. Peduncle axillary, solitary, as thick as the thumb, as 
long as or shorter than the spathe, green, cylindric. | Syathe 
a foot long, convolute, then gaping and boat-shaped, obtuse, 
apiculate, very thick and herbaceous, green, much thickened 
but not inflated at the base, where it merges into the pe- 
duncle, bright green, paler and yellowish internally. Spadiz 
about equalling the spathe, stout, cylindric, obtuse, cream- 
coloured, constricted below the middle, the long upper male 
portion lolling laterally out. of the spathe; lower female part 
stouter, base oblique and dorsally adnate to the spathe. Az- 
thers elongate-obpyramidal, with truncate tips and minute 
pores. Ovary obtuse, 4-angled, columnar, many-celled, deeply 
hollowed out at the top, which is covered with adnate stigmas 
that are reflected and decurrent on the surface ; ovules nume- 
rous in each cell.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, imperfect stamens; 2, perfect ditto; 3, ovary; 4, vertical, and 5, 
transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 
