]890, it is now eight feet high. It flowered in tbe 

 Tropical Aquatic House in June, 1900, and again in 1901. 

 JJescr. — Stem tall, robust, terete, annulate, smooth 

 or here and there spinulose. Leaves a foot long, ovate 

 or deltoidly oblong, hastate to the middle, with a broad 

 or narrow sinus, bright green above with pale yellow 

 midrib and nerves ; basal lobes unequal, stoutly costate, 

 dimidiately ovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, terminal 

 broadly deltoid, cuspidate, intra-marginal nerve slender. 

 retiole very stout, concave above ; sheath adnate to the 

 margins of the petiole, with a long, free, narrow limb. 

 redunde short, yerj stout. Spathe eight inches long; 

 tube two inches long by one and three-quarters in 

 diameter, yellow-green externally, red within, base rounded ; 

 lamina six inches long, ovate-lanceolate, open and recurved, 

 acuminate, yellow-green externally, lemon-yellow within. 

 Spadix four and a half inches long, sub-sessile, cylindric, 

 nearly one inch in diameter, top rounded. Mole in- 

 florescence three inches long; anthers closely packed, 

 trigonous, truncate; cells linear, extrorse. Female in- 

 florescence an inch long. Ovaries sub-prismatic, truncate, 

 one-celled, one-ovuled. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, section of tube of spathe with gpadix ; 2, anthers ; 3, ovary ; 4. por- 

 tion of truncate surface of ovary ; 5, vertical section of ovary -.—all en- 

 liirged :— 6, reduced view of whole plant. 



