nerves. Spathe three inches long, and as broad when spread 
out, quite open from the very base, acuminate with a filiform 
apex, recurved, as are the margins, pale straw-coloured, with 
a large dark-red purple basal spot. Spadir one to one and a 
half inch high, shortly stipitate ; male portion bright orange- 
yellow; female with about four rows of green subglobose 
ovaries.—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. spadix; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse, and 5, longitudinal 
section of ditto :—all magnified. 
