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Calyptrogyne (This genus comprises six)

This genus comprises six or eight species, natives of tropical America. Spadices simple or branched from the base, long-pedunculate; spathes two, narrow, the lower one much shorter than the peduncle, cleft at apex, the upper one deciduous, elongated, cleft the whole length. Fruit small, oblong or obovoid, one seeded. Leaves terminal, unequally pinnatisect; segments in few pairs; petioles very short. To the species described on p. 249, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. teres (terete). l. spreading or drooping, consisting, in young plants, of two pairs of linear-oblong, tapered leaflets about 2in. wide, bright green, with the principal ribs raised; petioles terete. British Guiana. Stove.