T. napalensis is a native of the Himalaya Mountains, 

 from Nepal eastwards to Assam and the Khasia hills ; 

 ascending in both to 5000 ft. Its tubers were sent in 

 February 1891, to the Royal Gardens, by Mr. J. A. 

 G-ammie, Resident Manager of the Cinchona Plantations 

 at Mungpo, in the Sikkim Himalaya. It flowered in a 

 stove in March, 1893, and matured its leaf in July of the 

 same year. 



Descr. — A tall, stout, tuberous aroid, two to four feet 

 high, flowering before leafing. Tuber several inches across. 

 Peduncle and petiole pale gvey, marbled with dark-green. 

 Leaf two feet across and more, trisect, the segments 

 simple, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, oblong-lanceolate, the 

 terminal obovate, all very many-nerved, dark green above, 

 pale beneath, margins waved or subcrenate. Spathe 6-12 

 in. long, erect, cymbiform, obtuse, open, convolute at the 

 base only, bright green, paler within. Spadix almost as 

 long as the spathe, sessile, very stout, cylindric, obtuse, 

 upper half greenish-yellow, tubercled, lower for the most 

 part male, female towards the base only. Male fl. of 

 crowded columnar flattened anthers, with terminal parallel 

 slits, the upper imperfect. Fern. fl. of crowded, globose, 

 sessile ovaries, each with a stout, columnar curved style, 

 and 3-lobed, broad, disciform stigma. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Cluster of Btamens; 2, single stamens ; 3, ovary; 4 section of the 

 same showing one cell and the exposed ovule, all enlarged ; 5 flowering, and 

 b, leafing plant, both greatly reduced. 



