ing underground rootstock, quite glabrous in all parts. 
Leaves several to a shoot; petiole one and a half to five 
inches long, channelled down the face; blade spreading 
about three to five inches long, two to three inches broad, 
elongated, ovate, or oblong-ovate, obtusely pointed, apicu- 
late, cordate at the base, bright dark green, paler beneath ; 
basal lobes about three-quarters of an inch long, rounded. 
Peduncles between three and four inches long, erect. 
Spathe about an inch long, three-quarters to one inch 
broad, open to the base, but with the sides approximate 
below, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, more or less decurrent on 
the peduncle, pure white. Spadix much shorter than the 
spathe, monoecious, yellow; female part adnate to the 
spathe, unilateral; male part shortly separated from the 
female, terete, obtuse. Flowers without a _perianth. 
Ovaries 3-12, in about two series, obliquely conoid, or 
narrowly elongated, ovoid, tapering into a short, thick 
style, one-celled, with a solitary subbasal ovule; stigma 
small, discoid. Anthers sessile, quadrate, densely crowded. 
—N. KE. Brown. 
Fig. 1, spadix and part of the spathe; 2, anther; 3, ovary; 4, longitudinal 
section of the same; 5, ovule:—all enlarged. 
