ther, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the outer of them being 
the smallest ; the leafstalk compressed, solid, green, below 
the middle of a paler colour, dilated into a firm sheath, 
which is spotted all over with dull olive-coloured, long, 
square spots. Spatha very large, all over on the outside of 
the same colour, and with the same Spotting as the sheaths 
of the leaves. Scape erect, rounded. Tube large, erect, 
conical; the limb very large, opened out, cucullate, abruptly 
cernuous, withering quickly after the first days of expan- 
sion; in the inside ofa livid purple, towards the end paler, 
covered all over with purple hairs, which are succulent, 
flattened, simple, bent back, and very close together about 
the orifice. Spadix rounded, bent down, shorter than the 
spatha, dark olive-colour, all over hairy with the lon 
tail-like processes of its tubercles, of a long spindle shape, 
surrounded, at its very bottom, with long, flat, subulate, 
_imbricated appendages, which form a sort of involucrum. 
The Female Flowers are at the base of the Spadix, closel 
packed in a short cylinder. Ovaries wedge-shaped, with 
no perianthium, their crown six-cornered, with two ovules 
standing erect at the base, and two hanging pendulous from 
the summit ; the whole of the ovaries surmounted by seve- 
ral horn-like processes. The Male Flowers situated above 
the females, disposed in a truncated cone. Anthers with 
a solid, fleshy base, 2-celled, opening through a hole in their 
end. 
We did not perceive the carrion-like smell, noticed by 
Linneus. ! 
J. L. 
