diameter, rather stout, two inches in diameter above, ringed, 

 otherwise smooth, dull green. Leaves about ten, spreading, 

 five to six feet long, and three to four broad, pinnate ; petiole 

 one to one and a half feet long, stout, with a green smooth 

 shortly amplexicaul base ; pinnules twelve to twenty pair, 

 rather distant, spreading and somewhat recurved, two feet 

 long by two and a half inches broad, sessile, linear, very 

 obliquely truncate and notched at the tip, one-nerved, 

 bright green, glaucous beneath, with scattered furfuraceous 

 scales, young connate. Spathe a foot long, narrowly 

 cymbiform, very coriaceous, pale yellow brown when dry, 

 dotted with furfuraceous peltate rufous scales, Spadix lateral 

 from the trunk below the leaves, dark blood-red, a foot long, 

 triangular in circumscription of the panicled branches, which 

 are erecto-patent, quite smooth and glabrous ; peduncle short, 

 stout, annulate ; branches like pieces of red coral. Flowers 

 sessile, blood- red, spirally arranged around the branches of 

 the spadix ; males about half an inch in diameter, in pairs 

 towards the upper part of the branches; females solitary 

 between two males in the lower part ; bracteoles very, short, 

 broad, adnate to the branch; outer perianth segments 

 rounded ; inner ovate, acute, paler within. Stamens about 

 twelve, filaments stout, subacute, equalling the linear anthers; 

 rudimentary ovary minute, with three distant stigmas. Female 

 flower ovoid, with appressed perianth segments. Ovary 

 obliquely shortly ovoid ; stigmas three, minute ; ovule soli- 

 tary, obliquely pendulous. Drupe size of a large nut, almost 

 globose, narrowed suddenly into a straight rather long point, 

 fibrous within. Seed globose, albumen ruminated, with red 

 markings; embryo small, lateral towards the base of the 

 seed.—J.D.R. 



Fig. 1, Male, and 2, female flowers ; 3, vertical, and 4, transverse section of 

 ovary ; 5, drupe ; 6, seed ; 7, vertical section of ditto :— all but 6 and 7 enlarged. 



