pinnatifid but not to the base ; pinnules three to four pairs, 
one and a half feet long, by one to one anda half inches broad, 
spreading, gradually narrowed into long acuminate points ; 
midrib stout, lateral nerves very slender, elongate, and run- 
ning parallel to the margins. Scape five to six feet high, as 
thick as the little finger, brown. Jnvolucre of six to seven 
leaves; outer narrow-lanceolate, five to six inches long, de- 
flexed ; inner erect, incurved, conniving, elliptic-lanceolate, all 
strongly nerved, green, caudate-acuminate. lowers very nu- 
merous, pedicels one to three inches long; sterile pendulous 
ones filiform, ten to twelve inches long, brown, grooved on one 
face. Ovary turbinate, with six strong keeled ribs, brown. 
Perianth glabrous, brown at the base, the rest green; seg- 
ments broadly ovate, conniving, coriaceous. Stamens sessile. 
Stigma 3-lobed, lobes convex. Fruit six inches long, ellipsoid- 
oblong, 6-ribbed.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Reduced figures of leafing and flowering states ; 2, portion of leaf 
and 3, inflorescence :—of the natural size ; 4, flowers; 5, the same with the 
perianth-segments removed ; 6, the same with 3 stamens removed showing 
the stigma :—all magnified. 
