architect, a gentleman of varied attainments, in especial recog- 
nition of his philanthropic efforts to spread a love of window- 
gardening and other pursuits amongst the humbler classes 
of London. : 
Mr. Fitches’ drawing was made in Mr. Bull’s nursery in 
December, 1872. 
Descr. oot as large as a man’s head, giving off stout 
spreading fibres. Zeaf solitary ; blade nine to ten feet in cir- 
cumference, nearly circular in outline, trichotomously divided, 
the ultimate divisions pinnatifid and dichotomous; seg- 
ments confluent, subacute, deep green; petiole attaining ten 
feet high, as thick as the arm, remotely muricate, yellow, 
mottled and striped with purple in transverse bars. Spathe 
two feet long, narrow, erect, boat-shaped, hooded at the top, 
thick and leathery, maroon-brown within and without, opaque ; 
base dirty yellow and orange red, convolute, embracing the 
 Spadix, upper part open, but hardly gaping. Spadiz much 
shorter than the spathe, cylindric, obtuse, shortly peduncled, 
quite free from the spathe, covered throughout with flowers. 
Perianth dull yellow, of six elongate cuneate truncate segments. 
Stamens six to eight in flowers here drawn, (12-biseriate, 
Trimen, in Seem. Journ.) filaments flattened, subulate; anthers 
exserted, small, 2-celled, cells each opening by a terminal pore. 
Ovary flagon-shaped, 3-celled, gradually contracted into a long 
stout purple style which much exceeds the perianth, and is 
truncate and stigmatiferous at the tip: cells 1-ovuled, ovule 
_ attached by a broad surface to the septum.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of leaf; 2 and 3, of scape and spathe; 4, portion 
of scape; 5, do. of spathe; 6, spadix:—all of’ nat. size; 7, flower; 8, 
| Stamen; 9, ovary; 10, transverse, and 11, longitudinal, section of do. :— 
all magnified. 
