eighteen inches, slender, and as well as the petiolules and 
scape mottled green and white and.dotted with red; leaf-' 
blade pedately five- to nine-partite, leaflets six to eight 
Inches long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, 
dark green above, paler beneath, central leaflet largest 
longest, and with the longest petiolule, being one to one 
ang a half inches long; outermost leaflets, when more 
than five, much smaller and sessile. Scape longer than 
the leaves, tall, very slender. Spathe erect; tube two 
inches long, cylindric or subcampanulate, pale green white 
or pale lilac with darker nerves; limb as long as the tube 
and broader, ovate with a. produced lip, slightly arched, 
darker green, margins at the base and around the mouth 
of the tube broadly revolute. Spadizx (male) very slender, 
rachis: white spotted with purple; anthers in scattered 
shortly stipitate clusters of three to five, globose; 
appendix slender, narrowed into long decurved and then > 
pendulous filiform tail, about twice as long as the tube 
of the spathe. ruit red.—J. D. H. : 
Fig. 1, Cluster of anthers; 2, the same after dehiscence :—both enlarged. 
