an ovato-oblong, green, glabrous, remarkably compressed, 
striated spatha. Flowers solitary, very large, three to four 
inches across: the two outer segments of the perianth (the 
upper and lower, the lower being formed of two combined) 
broadly ovate, almost rotundate, the lower and smaller one 
of an uniform green, the upper green, except the extremity, 
which is white ; the whole, especially the disk, richly spot- 
ted with brown. The two inner and lateral segments 
spreading, oblong, broader towards the extremity, yellow- 
green, with purple stria, pale at the base. Lp large, sac- 
cate, rich greenish-brown without, yellow within. Column 
of fructification short, terminated by a large, obversely 
cordate, yellow, slightly convex lobe, glandular below, 
beset with minute red hairs above: beneath this, at the 
base, are two short, lateral processes or filaments, to the 
side of each of which is attached a single, sessile, two- 
lobed, orange-yellow anther ; its lobes rather unequal. 
