The plant here figured was shown at the Ghent Quin- 
quennial International Horticultural Exhibition in 1902, 
and was afterwards purchased for the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in the Palm House in 
September and October, 1903. 
The spadices are monoecious, but at the time when the 
male flowers are fully expanded the female flowers are 
still immersed in the tissue of the spadix; thus showing a 
form of protandry. 
Deser—A slender palm. Stem erect, about four feet 
high and an inch and a half in diameter, naked, closely 
ringed. Leaves forming a terminal crown, arching, about 
two feet and a half long; petioles about a foot and 
a half long, concave, with a central ridge above, con- 
vex beneath; rhachis obtusely triangular above, convex 
beneath ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the larger 
about a foot long, three to six lines wide, three-nerved, 
sparingly scaly on the upper side. Panicles loose, 
with slender branches. Male flowers: Sepals boat-shaped, 
Scarious, one line long, slightly hairy at the apex. Petals 
a little longer than the sepals, ovate, obtuse, membranous, 
hyaline. Filaments united for two-thirds of their length 
Into a tubular-campanulate cup; anthers linear-oblong, — 
half a line long, attached by the base only, widely diver- 
gent. Ovary rudimentary, minute. Female fowers: 
Sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious, one line long. Petals 
ovate, acute, thin. Staminodes united into a cup reaching 
to the base of the style-branches, Ovary by abortion one- 
celled ; style basal, trifid; ovule ascending.—W,. B. H. 
Fig. 1, male flower; 2 sepal of the ‘dike: 3, petal 
» male , petals and anthers; 4, stamens 
seen from inside of the bud; 5, stamens and rudimentary ovary; 6, portion 
of spadix bearing female flowers ; 6*, portion of the same enlarged; 7, sepal 
of the same; 8, petals and istil; 9, pistil: / : 
ait casont Ont ts ee 3 ¥, pistil; 10, whole plant much reduced :— 
