Said to be terrestrial, but probably an essentially epiphytic plant, the caudex terete, short, 1.5 cm. thick, the internodes very short; cataphylls linear, long-attenuate, soon deciduous; petioles stout, 4-7 cm. long, 6-7 mm. thick, canalic-ulate for their whole length, the node very short, scarcely thickened; blades thin and almost membranaceous when dried, obovate-oblong, 50-65 cm. long, 13-16 cm. wide, long-acuminate, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the attenuate base, the costa rather stout and very prominent, the primary lateral nerves numerous, slender, prominent on both surfaces, arcuately ascending at a rather wide angle, not united to form a distinct collective nerve; peduncles slender, terete, 40-45 cm. long, 4-5 mm. thick; spathe linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 6-7 cm. long, 7 mm. wide; spadix subsessile, narrowly cylindric and caudiform, rounded at the apex, 12-14 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick near the base; sepals oblong, 2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide; pistils ovoid; berries oblong-ovoid, attenuate upward, 4-5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick.
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