The specimens here figured were raised from seed sent 
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Duthie, F.L.S., 
Director of the Botanic Department, Northern India, in 
1896. They flowered in a greenhouse in June, 1899. 
Descr.—Very variable in the size of all its parts, but the 
spathe rarely exceeding an inch in length. Sheaths 
embracing the petiole and peduncle, pale red brown, 
streaked with darker brown. Leaves two, pedatisect ; 
leaflets seven to eleven, usually lanceolate, acuminate, 
bright green, the central largest and broadest; petiole pale 
brown, striated, its sheath very long. Peduncle about . 
as long as the petiole, green. Spathe short, green, or 
yellowish, purple within, streaked with green ; tube globose, 
striate and trellised; limb open, very broadly ovate or 
orbicular, incurved, ‘cuspidately acuminate, with the tip 
ascending or recurved. Spadix sub-segsile, short, included, 
androgynous. em. infl. of few rows of obovoidly globose 
ovaries with pulvinate stigmas. Male injl. longer, of 
crowded anthers. Prpentage. clavate, much shorter than 
the inflorescence.—J. D. H 
Fig. 1, base of spathe and spadick 2, Be at 3, ovary; 4, the same | 
vertically halved; 5, an ovule :—All enlarg 
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