C. Griffithii was discovered in fresh-water pools in- 
Malacca by Dr. Griffith. In 1898 Mr. H. N. Ridley sent a 
plant of it, by favour of Mr. Glasgow, from the Botanical 
Gardens of Singapore to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where 
it flowered in a warm-water tank in September, 1899. 
Descr.—Stemless ; base emitting stout, simple roots and 
stolons. Leaves long-petioled, about three inches long, 
ovate, or orbicular-oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, base 
rounded or cordate, dark green above, and striolate with 
minute wavy-red lines, which are more copious on the 
paler under-surface, margins waved; midrib stout; nerves 
six to eight pairs, very slender, arching; petiole six to 
eight inches long, greenish-brown, narrowly sheathing at 
the base. Peduncle short, stout, red-brown. Spathe with 
an oblong basal swelling about half an inch long, suddenly 
narrowed above it into a white membranous tube three 
inches long, which dilates upwards into a lanceolate 
caudate-acuminate recurved limb an inch and a half long, 
purple and papillose within. Inflorescence in the tumid 
base of the spathe; male infil. an oblong stipitate head of 
crowded vertical anthers, terminated by a minute appendage, 
and enclosed in a membranous calyptra which is adnate 
to the wall of the spathe; female infl. a whorl of about 
eight, confluent, sessile, glandular ovaries, with large reni- 
oe stigmas, surrounding many crowded pistillodes.— 
Dred. 
Fig. 1, interior of base of spathe with inflorescences; 2, male infl.; Sand 
4, anthers; 5, fem. infl.; 6, vertical section of an ovary, with ovules :—AJ3 
enlarged, 
