beneath, costa and nerves at back of the pinnules sparingly 

 clothed with furfuraceous scales. Pinnules close-set, two feet 

 long by an inch and a half broad, stiff, acuminate, usually three- 

 nerved, ribbed and plaited ; rachis triangular towards the base, 

 convex above. Spathes eight to ten inches long, white, nar- 

 row-oblong, acuminate, flat at the back, three to four inches 

 across. Spadix axillary, but, owing to the falling away of 

 the leaf as soon as the spathe is ready to open and the flowers 

 are fully formed, only flowering when infra-axillary, horizon- 

 tally patent from the caudex, one to two feet long, sparingly 

 branched ; branches stout, divaricating, white in flower, 

 green in fruit. Flowers crowded, white, nearly half an inch 

 when expanded. Outer perianth-segment broadly ovate in 

 the female, narrower in the male, inner oblong, acute. Ber- 

 ries nearly globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in 

 diameter, scarlet, shining. Albumen not ruminate. — J. D. II 



Fig. 1. Reduced view of whole plant. 2. Portion of spadix, of natural 

 size. 3, Male, and 4, female flowers; — both magnified. 



