Evremospatha. | CXLVIL. PALME (WRIGHT). 113 
more slender spiny cilia on the margins than in #. macrocarpa. Midrib 
rather prominent, secondary nerves 6 on each side. Spadix 18-20 
in. long, on a peduncle 1 foot long; branches 20-30, patent, 2 lin. 
thick ; bracts transversely oblong, acuminate. Flowers in pairs, sessile. 
Calyx campanulate, 3-toothed, 2 lin. long, rigid, obscurely striate. 
Corolla 5 lin. long, much inflated, thick, 3-toothed. Stamens 6; fila- 
ments connate for the greater part of their length into a tube and 
adnate to the corolla; anthers erect, cordate, inserted at the base on 
the dorsal side, introrse. Ovary ovoid-globose, 3-celled ; style short ; 
stigmas 3, lingulate, ciliate. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 in. long, about 9 lin. 
diam., 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, with 18 rows of rhomboid scales. Seed 
slightly compressed, 9 lin. Jong, 5 lin. wide, 3-4 lin. thick, brown ; 
chalaza dorsal, much thickened; hilum linear; embryo ventral, about 
half-way up the albumen.—Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus 
(Eremospatha) cuspidatus, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 
434, t. 41, fig. A. 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: at the mouth of the River Gaboon, Mann, 1043! 
3. E. macrocarpa, Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 244. Stem 30-50 
ft. long, scarcely 1 in. thick. Leaves about 9 ft. long; sheath tubular, 
about 1 ft. long, produced at the apex into an obliquely truncate ochrea 
1 in. long, clothed with brownish evanescent scurf; rhachis 4—5 lin. 
thick at the base, bearing uncinate spines, produced into a cirrhus 
bearing 7-11 pairs of decurved subulate-triquetrous spines, but other- 
wise unarmed ; leaflets about 23 on each side, the upper rather wider 
apart than the lower, long lanceolate, acute, slightly dentate, papery, 
rigid, glabrous, shining, with brown spiny cilia 1-2 lin. long on the 
margins, the upper 14 in. by 12-13 lin., the lower gradually decreasing 
in size, midrib rather prominent, secondary nerves 6 on each side. 
Spadix 13-2 ft. long, glabrous, simply and alternately distichously 
branched ; peduncle 6-8 in. long, nearly 6 lin. thick, concave on the 
face, convex on the back; branches 4—5 in. long, 1 lin. thick at the 
base ; bracts semi-amplexicaul, ovate, acuminate, 3 lin. long, marcescent. 
Flowers as in 2. cuspidata. Fruit 1} in. long, compressed cylindrical, 
very shortly attenuate at the base, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, with 24 rows 
of rhomboid rather flat scales, 2 lin. wide. Seed compressed, 9-12 lin. 
long, 9 lin. wide, 4-5 lin. thick, brown ; chalaza incrassate and forming 
amammilla on the dorsal side ; embryo ventral, a little above the hilum. 
—Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus (Eremospatha) macro- 
carpus, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 435, t. 41, fig. B, 
and t. 43, fig. B. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bagru River, Mann, 1! Niger Territory: 
Old Calabar River, Mann, 2330! 
9. ANCISTROPHYLLUM, Mann et Wendl.; Benth. 
et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 937. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate, shortly 3-lobed. 
Corolla-tube short ; lobes 3, linear-oblong, acute, valvate. Stamens 6 ; 
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