Descr—A rather slender, branching climber, with 
aerial roots; flowering branches short; internodes about 
half an inch long. Leaf-petioles four to five inches long 
by a third to a half inch broad, linear, flat, strict, rounded 
at both ends, bright green; blades decurved, much shorter 
than the petiole, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Peduwncles 
two to three inches long, slender, decurved. Spathe one 
and a half to two inches long, linear or linear-lanceolate. 
Spadiz stipitate, two to four inches long, cylindric, green, 
about one-sixth of an inch in diameter. Flowers minute, 
densely crowded. Berries ellipsoid, smooth, scarlet, about 
two-thirds of an inch long, one-seeded.—J, D. H. 
- Fig. 1, portion of spadix; 2, perianth-segment; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 
seed :—All enlarged. 
