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Fig. 30. — To the right: Spadix of Oreodoxa regia enclosed in 

 the spathes. 

 To the left : The same spadix after removal of the 

 spathes. 



same time, erect when not jei open, at the base of the lowest leaf 

 sheath, spreading when in j&ower, with a very short, broad peduncu- 

 lar base, twice branched ; primary branches conspicuously swollen at 

 their bases and divided into several alternate flowering branchlets, 

 which are slender, terete, 3/6 to 5/6 foot long or shorter, more or 

 less sinuous between the flowers. — Flowers light coloured, 

 ternate almost to the end of the branchlets, inserted on very 

 superficial flat orbicular pulvinuli. Male flowers considerably 

 larger than the female, irregularly ovoid, obtuse, 1/5 to 1/4 

 inch long; calyx very small, with slightly imbricate, scarious, 

 subpellucid, subdeltoid, obtuse or acute, and more or less carinate 

 sepals ; petals considerably longer than the sepals, concave, thinly 

 pergamentaceous, irregularly ovate-oblong or oblong-ellipitcal, 

 bluntish or subacute, striately veined, with a nectai'iferous swelling 

 inside at the base. Stamens usually 6-7, occasionally 8-9, about 

 as long as the petals, also during the anthesis, about |- inch long on 



