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a sordid briglit orange with ligiit brown scales, the conical terminal buds 

 are white. Internally all parts are deep-orange (156), the pendulous tubers 

 grey with an orange coloured inner cortex. 



The leaves are oblong- or subovate lanceolate, with a somewhat 

 obliquely acuminate base, attenuated slowly to the acute point ending in a 

 short Cauda; the first leaves are comparatively broad rounded at the base 

 and constricted and acuminate at the canaliculate peliole. Here P is 2.25 — 2.2. 



The leaves become rapidly longer when the plant grows, and become 

 elliptical-lanceolate. The average length of an older flowering plant is 

 450X 140-1- 170 -f 350; of a larger plant 550 X 150 + 230 -f 400. The 

 largest measured leaf of a flowering plant was 650 X 1 70 -f- 200 + 400. P. 

 is 3 or often 3.2 — 3.6, in the highest leaf 4 or more. The plants seem to 

 become stronger and larger when they do not come in bloom. In a not 

 flowering plant (35 H.) the largest measured leaves were 650 X 150 

 4-200 + 400, 750X 185 + 250-f 500, 850X200 and 720X 230. The 

 colour is rather dark-green. The hollow midrib is dark-brown-red, which 

 colour never spreads over the parenchyma of the upper surface -but some- 

 times appears on both sides of the midrib beneath. 



In an older period the red colour vanishes sometimes nearly, especially 

 in leaves which orginate in a dry period; but nearly always alight-brown 

 tinge remains slightly visible near the base. 



The ligula is very little developed and consists only of two bows 

 which are convex upward, confluent in the lower part into a concave bow 

 and mostly not broader than a half mm., almost glabrous, not auriculate 

 neither protruding. 



The inflorescence is cylindric with a dilated coma (160X70 in the midst, 

 XlOO near the top) the length varies between 120 — 200, the peduncle from 

 200 — 650. The spike protrudes a little above the sheaths but is surpassed by 

 far by the long petioles. The peduncular leaf has sometimes the form of 

 a common leaf with sheath adnate to the peduncle, 450 mm. long and 110 

 mm. broad, with a 130 mm. long petiole surpassing the spike; inthiscase 

 the undermost bract bears a flower. But offener the peduncular leaf is 

 represented by one or two of the lowest bracts which are much taller than 

 the rest, sterile, adnate for one half of their length, trigonous-ovate, obtuse. 



The bracts are adnate for ^'3 to '/2 of their length forming broad and 

 very convex poches narrowed at their base while the free parts are erect 

 and continuing the pouches, constricted at their base while their top is 

 expanding. The free parts if flattened, are ovate broader than long a little 

 narrowed at the base with a somewhat acuminate but very blunt summit. 



The length of the 7the bract of a mean spike is 46 mm. of which 30 

 mm. are adnate and only 16 mm. are free, the width is 30 mm. but the 

 pouch is narrowed at the base. The 23th8 bract (intermedial) is 60X34, 



