Boundary Commission, by whom it was sent witli many 

 other living plants to the Royal Gardens in 1892. It 

 flowered in a stove in April of the same year, and produced 

 its leaf in the following August. 



Descr. — Tuber about 4 inches in diameter, oblate, bear- 

 ing a few bulbils. Petiole a foot high, rather slender, 

 pale greyish blue, with elongate reddish-brown blotches ; 

 lamina about 18 inches broad, trisect ; divisions sessile, 

 pinnatisect ; segments 4-8 in. long, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, quite entire, bright green, pale beneath. 

 Peduncle like the petiole. Spathe very short and broad ; 

 tube 2 inches long, and nearly as broad, cylindric, barrel- 

 shaped, dull pink, with pale green spots ; base truncate 

 and deeply intruded, drawn up in the middle into a 

 broad cone that supports the spadix ; lamina con- 

 tinuous with the tube, but hardly as long, galeate, in- 

 curved, with an acute point, dull green, copiously blotched 

 and marbled with dull purple, deep purple within ; mouth 

 contracted, with incurved margins. Spadix included, stipes 

 half an inch long ; male inn. a cone f of an inch long, 

 with two whorls of ovaries at its base ; anthers minute ; 

 appendix stipitate, 1 in. long, erect, conoid, obtuse, pale 

 purple Ovaries globosely ovoid, tip contracted with a 

 punctiform stigma, 1-celled, 1-ovuled.— J. D H. 



5 lo^dmlw^/ a U Y ° f Spathe of nat size •> 2 and 3» anthers > 4, ovary 5 

 view of leaf] ' ' tranBVerBe 8ecti °n of do.; all enlarged; 7, reduced 



