suborbicular but somewhat cuneate in the lower third, 
rounded at the insertion of the petiole, convex, bright 
green and glossy, regularly plicate in slightly curved lines, 
with about thirty acute folds on each side of the mesial 
line, and with as many oblong obtusely bifid free tips one- 
half to two-thirds of an inch long extending along the 
upper two-thirds of the leaf; petiole flattened, six to ten 
inches long and half an inch broad, concave above, obtusely 
trigonous beneath, sides armed with short stout curved 
prickles; ligule very short, broadly triangular; sheath 
short, not fibrous. Spadix fourteen inches long, slender, 
terete, green, bearing six or eight rather distant flowering 
branches, three to four inches long; basal spathe short; 
sheaths below the flowering branches two to three inches 
long, tubular, hardly swollen, coriaceous, green with short 
bifid scarious mouths. Flowers rather distant upon the 
branches of the spadix, about one-third of an inch long, 
sessile on the green terete rachis. Calyx cupular, three- 
. lobed; tube green, lobes brown. Petals twice as long as 
the calyx, coriaceous, triangular-ovate, with inflexed tips. 
Stamens six, filaments very broad below and connate in a 
truncate tube, tips free, very short and slender ; anthers 
ovoid. Ovary turbinate, top broadly truncate ; style subu- 
late, short, erect ; stigma simple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the calyx lobes and petals removed ; 
3 and 4, anthers and free portion of filaments ; 5, vertical section of flower, 
showing insertion of petals, staminal tube, and the ovary :—al/ enlarged. 
