Duscr. Stem erect, ten feet high, as thick as a stout cane ; 
joints numerous, green, swollen upwards, the very lowest 
only rooting. Leaves three to four feet long, spreading, 
pinnate, pinnules in many (twelve to twenty) pairs, one to 
one and a half feet long by one and a half to two inches 
broad, slightly curved, narrow lanceolate, acuminate, 7-nerved, 
green. Male spadix with a long erect sheathed peduncle, 
which curves and branches beyond the sheaths; sheaths 
about seven, rather lax, very rigid and coriaceous, green, six 
to ten inches long, the last longest ending in a long beak, 
all acuminate, and closed for about halfway up ; branches of 
spadix twenty to thirty, pendulous, six to ten inches long, 
a quarter of an inch in diameter, quite cylindric and terete, 
densely elothed to the base with golden yellow flowers, 
apiculate. Outer perianth obsolete; inner of three trans- 
versely oblong segments. Stamens sessile in the base of the 
perianth, filaments clavate, free at the base; anthers short, 
oblique. Female spadix erect, with six to ten shorter strict 
spreading branches.—J. D. 7. 
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Fig. 1, Reduced view of the whole plant ; 2, portion of male spadix of' the 
natural size; 3, male flowers on the axis; 4, male flower removed; 5, 
stamen :—all magnified, 
