in 1892. The specimen figured flowered in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, in 1897, and formed its large berries in the 

 following August. 



Descr. — Tall, very robust. Leaves nearly a foot long 

 and seven inches broad, orbicular-ovate, deeply cordate, 

 with an open sinus, or with overlapping basal lobes, apicu- 

 late, green, with oblong, transparent blotches, margin 

 waved, midrib beneath very stout ; petiole dark green, as 

 long as the blade, deeply channelled in front. Peduncle 

 nearly a yard high, terete, dark green. Spathe six inches 

 long, bright golden-yellow throughout (with no purple at 

 the base within) ; tube between funnel-shaped and campanu- 

 late ; limb three inches long and broad, quite smooth 

 within, tip caudate. Spadix sessile, about three inches 

 long. Anthers obconic, minute, orange-yellow. Ovaries 

 large, green, with a low crown and a small sessile coloured 

 stigma. Fruit a cluster of many small, imperfect berries, 

 and ten or a dozen large subglobose or misshapen large 

 ones, one inch in diameter, with rounded tips, and a minute 

 black scar in the position of the stigma. — J. D. H, 



Fig. 1, Base of spathe cut open, and spadix, of the nat. size; 2, anther; 

 3, ovary :— both enlarged ; 4, ripe berry of the nat. size. 



