114 CXLVII, PALME (WRIGHT). [Ancistrophyllum. 
filaments adnate to the corolla, lingulate or clavate; anthers elongate, 
sagittate, dorsifixed. Ovary 3-celled, attenuate into a long slender 
style ; stigmas 3, short ; ovules erect. Fruit baccate, 1-seeded, oblong, 
clothed with retrorsely imbricate scales. Seed oblong, compressed, 
smooth, erect; hilum basal; raphe linear, reaching almost to the apex 
on the dorsal side and then with obscure branches; chalaza dorsal, 
slightly incrassate and pressed into the albumen; albumen homogen- 
eous, hard; embryo ventral, horizontal, about half-way up the albumen. 
—Monocarpic, climbing palms. Stems cespitose, slender, elongate. 
Leaves remote, alternate, equally pinnate ; leaflets somewhat aggregate 
or alternate; rhachis produced at the apex into a long cirrhus ; sheath 
spiny, produced into a long ochrea. Spadix terminal, distichously 
branched ; spathes many, incomplete; bracts spathaceous, enclosing 2 
flowers ; bracteoles united into a bicuspidate cup. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Petiole long. Leaflets broad. Seed round. 
Leaflets unarmed at the margins . : : aL A. lee. 
Leaflets with spiny cilia at the margins . E . 2. A. opacum. 
Petiole short. Leaflets narrow. Seed compressed . 3. A. secundiflorum. 
1. A. leeve, Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Stem climbing, 
slender, 30-40 ft. long, annulate, unarmed. Leaves 4—5 ft. long, 9-12 
in. apart, covered with easily removable dark brown tomentum, becom- 
ing glaucous; sheath about 1 ft. long, tubular, closely adpressed to the 
stem, bearing solitary horizontally patent spines towards its apex, pro- 
duced at the apex into an ochrea 1 ft. long, splitting down one side and 
clothed with very strong scattered compressed subulate spines; petiole 
8-9 in. long, 3 lin. wide, flat above, convex beneath, bearing remote 
recurved spines thickened at the base; rhachis gradually attenuate 
upwards, convex on the back, spiny on the margins, compressed in the 
upper part and produced into a cirrhus 1-1} ft. long, bearing 4-6 
alternate much-reduced leaflets ; leaflets in 9-13 opposite or subopposite 
clusters, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the base, 
slightly falcate, smooth and shining on both surfaces, unarmed, with 2 
(rarely 1) primary nerves prominent below, central ones 7—9 in. long, 
i: in. wide, the lowest smaller and slightly deflexed. Spadix ovate, 
13-2 ft. long; primary branches 6-8, the lowest somewhat recurved 
and simply branched ; lowest branchlets 4-5 in. long; spathes tubular, 
obliquely splitting, very spiny, produced at the apex into a tail several 
in. long ; bracts 1 in. long, tubular, inflated, obliquely truncate, very 
long acuminate on one side at the apex; bracteoles very numerous, 
2-3 lin. long. Flowers distichous, patent, geminate, each pair sub- 
tended by a more or less concave bracteole, shortly pedicelled. Calyx 
campanulate, 2 lin. long, trifid; lobes ovate, acuminate, rigid, striate 
on the back. Corolla 4 lin. long, yellow; lobes 34 lin. long, 1 lin. 
wide, long lanceolate, acute, thickened at the margins, valvate, rather 
rigid, concave, striate. Stamens 6, a little shorter than the corolla; 
filaments thick, tongue-shaped, acute, 1} lin. long; anthers bifid at 
the base, 1 lin. long, yellow, fixed at the centre of the back. Ovary 
