scattered flowers: the main rachis is obtusely many-angled : the 
branches bluntly three-angled: all at first white, afterwards 
green, but withering without attaining the rich scarlet of the 
female spadix. Young flower-duds very much sunk in the sub- 
stance of the rachis, but soon emerging. Calyz small, at first 
hemispherical, then cup-shaped, white, bursting open in three 
blunt segments, longer than those of the male calyx. Petals 
three, united at the base, broad oval, obtuse, or nearly cymbi- 
form, deep orange. Stamens six, united by their short filaments 
at their base. Anthers oval-oblong, two-celled. Ovary small, 
abortive, with a short s¢y/e and spreading three-lobed stigma. 
Our Plate represents a reduced figure of the entire plant, and a portion of the 
spadix :—nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of the spadix, with flowers. 2. Lower 
portion of the calyx, with stamens and abortive ovary :—magnified. 
