Ancistrophyllum. | CXLVII. PALME (WRIGHT). 115 
globose; style columnar, 2 lin. long, hollow inside; stigmas 3, oblong, 
short, 3-celled ; ovules solitary. Fruit-scales in about 18 rows, fimbriate, 
straw-coloured, brown at the margins.—Calamus (Laccosperma) levis, 
Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 430, t. 38, fig. B. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: in shady virgin forests in the neighbourhood of the 
Gaboon River, Mann, 1045! Munda, Soyaux, 155 (ex Drude). 
_ 2. A. opacum, Drude in Engl, Jahrb. xxi. 111. Stem 25-30 ft, 
long, soboliterous. Leaves patent, 6-8 ft. long, clothed with easily 
removable brownish tomentum; sheath 1 ft. long, tubular, closely 
investing the stem, armed towards the apex with scattered ancipitous 
subulate spines 6 lin. long, yellow at the base and black at the apex, 
produced at the apex into an ochrea 6-12 in. long, bearing spines like 
those on the sheath ; rhachis convex on the back, flattened on the upper 
side near the base, but acute towards the apex, produced at the apex 
into a filiform cirrhus 24-3 ft. long, bearing 4—6 reduced hook-like leaf- 
lets, the lower alternate and 4-6 in. apart, the upper opposite, smaller 
and nearer together, margins densely covered with recurved spines 
throughout ; leaflets in opposite clusters, long- or elliptic-lanceolate, con- 
tracted at the base, acuminate, marcescent, opaque, distantly spiny on 
the margins, falcate, prominently 1—4- (rarely 5-) nerved, 8-12 in. by 
1-4 in. Spadix ovate, 14-23 ft. long; primary branches patent, the 
lower 1—1} ft. long; branchlets alternately distichous, turned to one 
side, pendulous, 4—8 in. long, slender. Flowers geminate, alternately 
distichous, shortly pedicellate, patent. Calyx campanulate, nearly 2 lin. 
long, thickened at the base, rather rigid; lobes broadly ovate, acute. 
Corolla nearly 4 lin. long ; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acute, rigid, concave, 
striate on the back, valvate. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the 
corolla; filaments thick, tongue-shaped, acute, adnate to the base of the 
corolla ; anthers elongate, bifid at the base, dorsifixed. Ovary globose ; 
style columnar, 2 lin. long; stigmas 3, oblong, fimbriate ; ovules soli- 
tary, inserted a little above the base of the cell. Fruit baccate, 1-seeded, 
globose, 6 lin.in diam.; scales in 12 rows, membranous, with an obscure 
longitudinal furrow, straw-coloured, darker at the margins. Seed sub- 
globose, deeply channelled, 5 lin, in diam., with a deep pit bearing a cen- 
tral mammilla on the dorsal side ; raphe linear ; albumen hard ; embryo 
ventral, horizontal, about half-way up the albumen.—Cummins in Kew 
Bulletin, 1898, 80. Calamus (Laccosperma) opacus, Mann & Wendl. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 431, t. 41, fig. D, and t. 43, fig. D. Laccosperma 
opacum, J. Braun and K. Schum. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb, ii. 
(1889), 148. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Ashanti; Assin-Yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 229! 
Cameroons : Barombi, Preuss, 307 (ex Drude). Fernando Po: in shady woods from 
the shore to 1000 ft., Mann, 97! 
3. A. secundiflorum, Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 230. A cespi- 
tose, widely climbing palm. Stem 50-60 ft. long, 1} in. in diam., un- 
armed. Leaves 12-14 ft. long, 1-1} ft. apart, pale green; sheath 
1-1} ft. long, cylindrical, with short scattered conic-subulate spines 
1-2 lin. long near the apex only, produced at the apex into a long 
