intervals throwing out roots from below, and there produc- 
ing a large, brown, amplexicaul scale opposite to the inser- 
tion of a leaf. Leaf one to two feet long, broadly lanceo- 
late, coriaceous, petiolated, acute, margined with red, above 
deep green, beneath pale : the costa exceedingly thick and 
inflated ; from each side of the costa arise numerous parallel 
nerves : petiole three to four inches long, rounded, purplish 
green, having a sheath within at the base, from which the 
spatha arises. Peduncle shorter and thicker than the pe- 
tiole, pale green spotted with purple. Spatha somewhat 
cylindrical, cucullate, acute, contracted in the middle, pale 
yellow-green spotted with red, thick and fleshy, bright red 
within at the base. Spadix cylindrical, as long as the spa- 
tha, densely covered in the lower part with pzstils ; the rest 
with stamens, those at the base abortive. Germen subglo- 
bose : Stigma large, depressed, wrinkled, sessile. Stamens 
peltate, angled, bearing the linear cells on the sides. 
: Fig. 1. Spadix removed from the Spatha; nat. size, 2. Stamen. 3. Pis- 
til :—magnified. 
