ovoid, yellow, each with a lanceolate, more or less serrate 
bract as long as itself. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 
fleshy. Petals shorter, broader. Disk fleshy. Style very 
stout, stigmas short, recurved. Fruit three in. long, 
elongate-ovoid, beaked, 1-seeded, surrounded at the base 
by the greatly enlarged sepals, petals, and disk.—J. D. H. 
Tab. 7552, Portion of rachis of leaf and leaflet of nat. size ; 2, male spathe 
and spadix one-third nat. size; 3, branch of do. nat. size; 4, male fl; 
5, stamens; 6 and 7, front and back view of single stamen :—AJ/ enlarged. 
Tab. 7553, Reduced fig. of whole plant; fig. 1, fem. fl. and bract; 2, the 
same, side view; 3, fem. petals style and stigma; 4, disk with ovary; al/ 
enlarged.—5, two fruits; 6, transverse, and 7, longitudinal section of fruit ; 
8, seed ; 9, embryo :—A/l of nat. size. 
