green, the leaf-sezments pinnatisect, the ultimate broader 
and confluent. 
Descr.—Tuber oblate. Leaf solitary, appearing after the 
flowering ; petiole stout, about three feet high ; blade about 
a foot across, trisect; primary segments spreading, pinna- 
tifid or bipinnatifid; ultimate narrowly linear, acute or 
acuminate. Peduncle three to eight inches high, very 
stout. Spathe erect, six inches high, pyriform; tube cam- 
panulate, an inch and three-quarters in diameter, white, 
gradually dilated into the concave limb, which is convolute 
from its lower half, three and a half inches broad about 
the middle, rounded at the top; mouth oblique, dark 
purple, streaked with dirty white, and marked with a few 
orbicular spots of various size; lips almost black purple, 
incurved. Spadix shortly stoutly stipitate, gradually 
broader upwards for about two inches, when it suddenly 
develops into the large, stoutly stipitate, pyriform, pitted, 
brown, mottled appendix, the rounded top of which reaches 
to the top of the spathe, and is about two and a half 
inches in diameter. Fem. infl. about half an inch long, of 
many, green, flagon-shaped, one-celled, one-ovuled ovaries, 
each narrowed into a style with a capitate stigma. Male 
infl. as long as the fem., but broader, of crowded, sub- 
quadrate anthers. Berries yellow, oblong-obovoid, half an 
inch long—J, D. H. 2 
a, 1, section of tube of spathe with base of spadix, about twice the nal. 
size; 2, stamen; 8, ovary; 4, vertical section of do.: all greatly enlarged. 
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