base, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, or the lower obovate, dark 
green with impressed nerves, margins beyond the intra- 
marginal nerve undulate, terminal three or four inches. 
long, lateral shorter less acute. Pedunele very short, 
green, sheaths as long as the spathe, lax, very broadly ovate, 
acute, concave. Spathe one and a half inch high, and as 
broad across the hemispheric dirty-white striated tube ; 
mouth rather contracted, oblique, margin broadly everted 
prolonged at one side into a broad tongue-shaped obtuse 
limb, waved and irregularly crenate or lobulate, dull red 
brown ; interior of spathe mottled with bright red from 
the base to within half an inch of the everted margin, the 
intervening space dull white. Spadiz nearly six inches high, 
erect ; female portion very short ; male longer, cylindric, 
nearly an inch long; appendix an elongate dull pale brown 
rugose subacute cone contracted towards the base. Sta- 
mens densely crowded, cuneiform with rounded angles, 
yellowish, two-celled. Ovaries minute, sessile, green, de- 
pressed globose, two- to three-celled ; cells one-ovuled ; 
stigma globose, two- to three-lobed.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Reduced plant; 2, portion of leaf; 3, inflorescence, of the natural 
size; 4, base of spadix; 5, stamen; 6, ovary ; 7, vertical section of the same. 
Fig. 2 and 4-7, all enlarged, 
