Henry collected it abundantly in the Chinese Provinces of 

 Hupeh and Szechuen. This species represents a group in 

 which neither the spathe nor the spadix is elongated. 

 The plant figured was raised at Kew from seeds received 

 in 1899 from the Botanic Garden, Imperial University, 

 Tokyo, Japan. It flowered in the Alpine House in March, 

 1903. 



Descr. — A tuberous-rooted, perennial, dicecious, glabrous 

 herb. Tuber globose. Stems one to two feet high, two- 

 leaved, terminating in a single inflorescence. Leaves 

 pedately compound, on long petioles ; petioles sheathing 

 to above the middle, thence free and terete ; leaflets or leaf- 

 segments five to eleven, thin, sessile or the intermediate 

 sometimes stalked, oblong or lanceolate, one and a half to 

 six, but usually three to five inches long, acute or caudate- 

 acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire. Spathe pedun- 

 culate, equalling or overtopping the leaves, green with 

 longitudinal white stripes ; tube cylindrical, slightly widen- 

 ing upwards; limb ovate, acute or acuminate, incurved, 

 margin recurved below the middle. Male spadix with a 

 stalked, clavate appendage, longer than the tube of the 

 spathe. Male flowers without a perianth ; stamens two to 

 four; filaments confluent. — W. B. H. 



Fig. 1, a male spadix; 2 and 3, male flowers : — all enlarged. 



