fasciated with pencilled streaks of greenish or purplish brown, 
giving a singularly lurid and snake-like look to the plant. 
Considering all these points, it is perhaps doubtful whether 
4. Boivinii should not be regarded as the type of a distinct 
genus or sub-genus, to which the name of Gozatopus, in 
allusion to the knee-like swelling on the petiole, might be 
applied. 
Descr. Rhizome short, dilated. Leaf in our specimen soli- 
tary, radical, enclosed at the base along with the peduncle in a 
few short membranous acute sheaths, two to three feet long, 
erect ; blade triangular-ovate, triternately pinnate ; petiole as 
thick as the little finger, with one swollen oblong node in 
the middle, and as well as the slender rachis, partial petioles, 
and peduncles of the spathes, of a dull green, crossed by 
irregular bands of brownish striz ; pinne opposite, sessile or 
shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 
faintly nerved. Peduncles two in our specimen, one on each 
side of the petiole, shorter and much more slender than it is,’ 
cylindric, terete. Spathe six inches long, ovate-lanceolate 
from a short sheathing base that embraces the female flowers, 
long-acuminate ; blade revolute, dirty yellow-green inside, 
lurid yellow-green outside, with six to eight obscure dark 
nerves and innumerable dark strie. Spadiv equalling the 
spathe; female portion one inch long, subglobose; male 
portion cylindric, four inches long by one-third of an inch 
broad, yellow, terete, densely clothed with yellow hexagonal 
flowers, whose truncate perianth-segments give it an even 
surface. Perianth-segments four, prismatic, thick, truncate, 
closely embracing the organs of fructification. Male flower :-— 
s(amens four, surrounding a rudimentary pistil, filaments very 
short, broad ; anthers included, incumbent, didymous, cells 
opening by large terminal pores. Female flower :—ovary ob- 
ovoid, 2-celled, contracted into a columnar style with a capitate 
stigma; ovules ascending from the septum, solitary in each 
cell, micropyle inferior.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of plant ; 2, pinnules of the natural size :—3, male 
flower 3 4, stamens and rudimentary ovary; 5, stamen; 6, female flower ; 
7, pistil; 8, vertical section of ditto :—all magnified. 
