leaves, stout, erect, closely sheathed. Spathes one to two 
inches long, large and rather tumid, lax, obliquely truncate 
and acuminate. Yowers very large for the size of the plant, 
usually dark purple, three and a half to four inches across the 
perianth were it spread out; pedicel short, stout. Perianth- 
tube longer than the ovary ; outer segments recurved, spathu- 
 late-obovate, tip rounded, claw deeply bearded; inner seg- 
ments as long as the outer, erect and connivent, broadly 
elliptic-oblong with a narrow claw and cordate base. Stzymas 
not half the length of the inner perianth segments, their lobes 
triangular, acute, toothed at the outer edge—J/. D. H. 
