segments sessile, elliptic- or obovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 
four to five inches long by one-half to two inches broad, 
pale bright yellow-green with scattered round white spots. 
Spathe erect, three inches long, boat-shaped, with an acute 
recurved point, margins hardly overlapping at the base, 
pale green. Spadix about as long as the spathe, sessile. 
Male inflorescence cylindric, lax-flowered, occupying about 
half the spadix, broader and much longer than the female, 
which consists of a short column of densely packed 
obliquely globose ovaries with capitate sessile stigmas. 
Stamens about four ; filaments free, suddenly delated into 
clavate or very broadly obovate obtuse anthers opening b 
small lateral slits. Appendix stoutly stipitate, porn 
obtuse, about one inch long, straw-coloured, sinuately 
suleate—J, D. H. 
Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, 3, 4, and 5, anthers of different forms and in different 
positions ; 6, ovary ; 7, vertical section of ditto ; 8, ovule :—ad/ enlarged, 
