of Nunnezharia, given to the genus nine years earlier by Ruiz 
and Pavon. 
The Kew plant, which in 1858 (when the accompanying 
drawing was made), had a stem only a few inches high, with 
four naked joints, has now a stem three and a half feet high, 
which presents sixty-four joints between the rootlets and 
lowest leaf base. It is stated to have borne sometimes male 
and sometimes female spadices. 
Drscr. Whole height about four feet. S¢em erect, as thick as 
the thumb, deep bright green ; internodes one-half to one inch 
long, not much contracted at the middle. eaves spreading, 
eight to twelve inches long by five or six broad, obovate, 
obscurely serrate, apex two-partite, with spreading triangular 
lobes, deep green, plaited; nerves about twelve on each side, 
perfectly glabrous ; petiole short, green; sheath oblong, the 
lower pale red-brown. Spadices (male) axillary, and from the 
jomts immediately below the leaves, very slender, erect, 
terminated by long slender alternate drooping branches, eight 
to ten inches long; peduncle clothed with slender, erect, 
orange-brown, acuminate sheaths four inches long; branches 
very graceful, green, clothed throughout with close-set but 
not crowded male flowers. Mowers (male) compressed- 
globose, a quarter of an inch in diameter, dark green like the 
branch of the spadix, in which their bases are hardly sunk. 
Outer perianth of three minute membranous segments, connate 
into a cup; inner much larger, obovate, connate at the tips 
for some time. Stamens six, surrounding a rudimentary ovary. 
Female flower (from Oersted’s description) immersed in pits of 
the erect branches of the spadix. Outer perianth nearly as 
large as the inner. Staminodes very minute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, male spadix :—of the natural size ; 
3, portion of ditto and flower; 4 male flower :—magnijied. 
