to the insertion of the petiole, grey-green above, passing - 
into dark green in broad undefined bands along the midrib 
and nerves, under surface uniformly very pale green, 
margins narrowly bordered with yellow, basal lobes 
parallel obtuse; nerves four arching pairs, and a pair re- 
versed and running through the basal lobes nearly parallel 
to their inner margins, each giving off two branches; petiole 
six inches long, terete, pale green, as thick as a goose- 
quill. Sheaths at the base of the petiole elongate, mem- 
branous, very pale, sometimes tipped with green or 
subfoliaceous. Scape three to five inches long, pale green. 
Spathe two to two and a half inches long, white, mem- 
branous, with narrow purple margins ; tube ovoid, half as 
long as the oblong acute revolute limb. Spadix two 
inches long, lower one-third female, with rather distant 
green ovaries ; median portion male, three-fourths of an 
inch long, white, separated from the female by a short 
naked space; appendix cylindric, rugulose, ochreous. 
Male fl. of many narrow anther-cells together forming 
a cylindric truncate column. Ovaries ellipsoid, style rather 
long, stigma dilated obliquely 2-3 lobed ; ovules 4-7, basal. 
~—J. DH. 
Fig. 1, Spadix; 2, male flowers; 8, a female flower; 4, the same bisected 
vertically ; 5, ovule:—A/l enlarged. 
