peduncle five inches long, clothed up to the branches of 
the spadix, with three to five brown lanceolate acuminate 
imbricating convolute sheaths. Male fl. rather loosely 
scattered on the branches of the spadix, sessile by a broad 
base, globose, about one-eighth inch diameter, at first 
brown, then orange-yellow. Calyw annular, membranous, 
obscurely toothed. Corolla thickly coriaceous, three-lobed 
to the middle, lobes valvate. Stamens with the filaments 
confluent in a fleshy broad six-toothed ring; anther-cells 
divaricate below, linear, marginal as it were on the teeth 
of the ring. FPistillode columnar, with a three-lobed 
stigma.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of branch of spadix and flowers; 2, lobe of corolla; 3, ring of 
stamens and pistillode; 4, portion of do. with one anther :—all enlarged. 
