applied scales ; leaflets elongate, oval, gradually narrowed to 
each end, often very finely tapering above, glabrous, mem- 
branous, paler beneath, varying to nearly one foot in length, 
one inch to two and a half inches in breadth. Scape con- 
siderably shorter than the petiole, erect, glabrous. Spathe 
convolute, tubular below ; tube two to three inches long, half 
to three quarters inch in diameter; lamina’slightly recurved 
at the mouth, gradually narrowed above into a long taper- 
ing pendent appendix; the spathe of the male plant striated 
white and dark blue-purple; of the female white and green 
longitudinally, paler outside ; appendix of spathe varying to 
nearly six inches in length in the female, shorter in the male. 
Spadi« but slightly exserted, appendix hardly thickened 
above, subcapitate, truncate, not clavate.-—D. 0. 
Fig. 1, Entire plant, much reduced; 2, two leaflets and their attach- 
ment, with the apex of the peduncle; 8, female, and 7, male inflorescence, 
enclosed by spathe; 4, spadix of female; 8, of male plant; 5, ovary; 6, 
same laid open; 9, stamen :—the analyses magnified. 
