shaped, that is, slightly contracted above the broad base which 

 forms rounded lobes on either side of the broad basal sinus, 

 subacute or apiculate, rather membranous ; nerves numerous, 

 rather slender, horizontal and arching upwards, the three 

 or four basal joining into one stout one ; venules subhori- 

 zontal between the nerves, or somewhat pinnately disposed 

 towards the leaf-base ; petiole stout, terete, about as long as 

 the blade, clothed with short reflexed thick fleshy ovate- 

 subulate scales. Peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves, 

 stout, white, terete, shorter than the spathe, longitudinally 

 rugulose at the top, as is the base of the spathe. Spathe five 

 inches long, thick and fleshy, cylindric- oblong, constricted 

 in the middle ; lower half closed, tumid, pale flesh-coloured 

 outside, pale purplish within ; upper half broad, but open, boat- 

 shaped, apiculate, pale straw-coloured. Spadix as long as 

 the spathe, included, stout, cylindric, white, subacute. 

 Ovaries densely crowded, depressed, five- to six-angled, 

 five- to six-celled, with a depressed radiating five- to six- 

 lobed stigma, the lobes orbicular.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Scales of petiole, of the natural size; 2, imperfect ovaries; 3 and 4, 

 perfect ovaries -.—enlarged. 



