and only four-nerved, with the nerves very distant. In 
the structure of the male and female flowers these two 
species are very closely allied. 
C. microcephala flowers annually in a stove at Kew in 
the spring months. 
Duscr. Stem three and a half inches high, subclavate, 
narrowing from one and a quarter inch in diameter at the 
top to two-thirds inch at the base, throwing out subter- 
ranean suckers, green crossed with about twelve broad 
brown scars of fallen leaves. Leaves numerous at the top 
of the stem, ten to eighteen inches long, dark green, split 
to below the middle into two lanceolate finely acuminate 
plicately about eight-nerved segments; petiole very slender, 
dilated at the base into a fleshy purplish open sheath. 
Peduncle two to four inches long, slender, naked, green, 
furnished at the base with narrow brown lanceolate 
appressed sheaths about one inch long. Spadix three- 
fourths inch long, oblong, obtuse, with about eight groups 
of flowers, subtended by two opposite pale green ovate 
Spathes one to one and a half inches long, with long green 
tips. Male fl. with one row of many short oblong perianth 
lobes; filaments subglobose with short tips; anthers 
shortly oblong. Fem. jl. : perianth-lobes four, very short, 
much broader than long; staminodes one and a half inch 
long, simple, filiform. Stigmas subglobose.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Male fl.; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, fem. fl.; 5, transverse section of 
ovary :—all enlarged. 
