112 CXLVII, PALM (WRIGHT). [ Zremospatha. 
urceolate; lobes 3 short, acute, valvate. Stamens 6, perigynous ; fila- 
ments short, broad, connate ; anthers cordate, fixed near the base at 
the back, Ovary 3-celled; stigmas 3, lingulate; ovule subbasal. 
Fruit baccate, 1- (rarely 2-3-) seeded ; scales thin, fragile; endocarp 
membranous. Seed peltate, slightly rugose ; hilum linear ; raphe linear, 
its branches radiating from the hilum ; albumen homogeneous ; embryo 
ventral.—Climbing palms. Stems long, slender, ringed. Leaves 
equally pinnate, subsessile ; leaflets alternate and opposite; rhachis 
bearing weak spines, produced at the apex into a long cirrhus bearing 
opposite decurved spines (reduced leaflets), Spadices short ; peduncle 
and branches compressed, distichous, thick, patent; spathes none ; 
bracts minute. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Leaflets elliptic-obovate . “ c : : . 1. #. Hookert. 
Leaflets long lanceolate, 
Fruit scales in 18 rows, Leaflets acuminate . . 2. E. euspidata, 
Fruit scales in 24 rows, Leaflets acute. : . 3. EH. macrocarpa. 
1. E. Hookeri, Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 244. Stem 6 lin. thick. 
Leaves 4—5 ft. long; sheath tubular, glabrous, produced at the apex 
into an obliquely truncate ochrea 6-9 lin. long; rhachis 6 lin. thick at 
the base, prolonged at the apex into a cirrhus unarmed except for the 
recurved spines representing reduced leaflets ; leaflets 12-14 on each 
side, the basal ones rather closer together than the upper, elliptic- 
obovate, 6-7 in. by 2-2} in., flat, thin; central nerve and 5 secondary 
nerves rather prominent on both surfaces; upper margin slightly 
repand-crenate, lower furnished with a few spines 2 lin. long. Spadix 
long peduncled, 14-2 ft. long; rhachis slightly compressed, simply and 
distichously branched; branches 14-22, patent; bracts transversely- 
oblong, acuminate. Fruit ovoid-cylindric, 10-12 lin. long, 8-9 lin. 
in, diam., 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, with 20 rows of rhomboid scales. Seed 
peltate, 9 lin. long, 6 lin. wide, 3 lin. thick—Drude in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi, 111. Calamus (Eremospatha) Hookeri, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxiv. 434, t. 41, fig. C. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Delta: at the mouth of the River Nun (Niger), Mann, 
451! West Tropical Africa; without exact locality, Kalbreyer, 65! Cameroons: 
aK, Preuss, 460, and on the banks of the river near Ndian Factory, Dusén (ex 
rude }. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; by Kambele River, Schwein- 
furth, 3671 (ex Drude), 
_2. BE. cuspidata, Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 244. Stem 1 in- 
thick. Leaves 6-7 ft. long ; sheath tubular, smooth, about 1 foot long, 
produced at the apex into an obliquely truncate ochrea 1 in. long; 
rhachis 6 lin. thick at the base, produced at the apex into a long 
cirrhus bearing sigmoid subulate triquetrous recurved spines, with 1-2 
uncinate spines between each pair of leaflets; leaflets 25-27 on each 
side, basal rather nearer together than the upper, opposite or alternate, 
8-9 in. by 10-12 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate into a point 1-2 in. 
long, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, with more numerous and 
