flowered in a stove of the Royal Gardens in March of this 

 year, and the spathe continued fresh till the end of May. 



Descr. — Eootstock a large tuber. Leaves long-petioled, 

 blade a foot long, sagittately oblong, sub-acute, basal lobes 

 one-third to half as long as the blade above them, oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, diverging from a narrow sinus, bright 

 green above, paler beneath ; nerves many, diverging from 

 the stout midrib, lowest pair decurrent in the basal lobes ; 

 petiole three to four feet high, sparsely prickly, green. 

 Peduncle much longer than the petiole, green, sparsely 

 prickly. Spathe a foot to eighteen inches long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, externally dull green, clouded 

 with red, within pale yellow-green, with broad indefined 

 interrupted bands of maroon brown, tip not twisted, base 

 hardly convolute, margins narrowly recurved. Spadix two 

 to six inches long by less than half to three-fourths of 

 an inch in diameter, shortly stipitate, cylindric, obtuse, 

 dark violet-purple. Flowers tetramerous, rarely trimerous. 

 Perianth-segments equal or unequal, quadrate, truncate. 

 Stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments, anthers 

 didymous, as long and broad as the square filaments. 

 Ovary oblong, slightly narrowed into the stout clavate 

 style, which is crowned by the umbonate stigma. — J. D. PL. 



Fig. 1, Portion of spadix and flowers; 2, perianth- segment ; 3 and 

 4, stumens ; 5, ovary :— All enlarged. 



