116 CXLVII. PALM& (WRIGHT). [ Ancistrophyllum. 
ochrea ; petiole 4 in. long, 9 lin. in diam., concave above, convex 
beneath, spines marginal, remote, subulate from a thickened base, black 
at the apex, recurved ; rhachis gradually attenuate upwards, convex and 
unarmed on the back, convex on the face in the lower part, acute-angled 
in the upper, with very slender subulate straight or slightly curved 
spines 3-6 lin. long between the leaflets ; cirrhus 5-6 ft. long, unarmed 
or slightly spiny ; reduced leaflets up to 18, recurved, much thickened 
at the base, flattened or triangular above, the lowest alternate, 4-8 in. 
apart, 2 in. long, 3 lin. wide, the upper opposite and confluent at the 
base, getting gradually smaller and closer together; leaflets 45-55 on 
each side, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, abruptly contracted at the base, | 
with spiny cilia on the margins, rather rigid, straight, with 1-2 nerves 
rather prominent and remotely spiny on the upper side, the lowest 
approximate, 4~5 in. long, 6 lin, wide, the central 12~13 in. long, 
9-18 lin. wide, the upper rather more distant. Spadix broadly ovate, 
4-6 ft. long; primary branches 10-15, about 3 ft. long; bracts cylin- 
drical, obliquely truncate, unarmed, smooth, adpressed ; flower-bearing 
branches 1 ft. long, slender, distichous, pendulous, turned to one side ; 
bracteoles narrowly campanulate, 2 lin. long, obliquely truncate. 
Flowers geminate, yellowish, shortly pedicellate, horizontally patent. 
Calyx nearly 2 lin. long, campanulate, smooth, thickened at the base ; 
lobes semi-oblong, rather acute. Corolla 4 lin. long ; lobes linear-oblong, 
shortly acute, rather thick, patent, valvate, 1-1} lin. wide, convex, 
faintly striate. Stamens 6, shorter than the corolla; filaments 
thickened, compressed ; anthers 2 lin. long, linear, bifid at the base, 
introrse. Ovary globose, 3-celled; style columnar ; stigmas 3, oblong ; 
ovule erect. Fruit baccate, 1-seeded, orange-colour when fresh, brown 
when dry, 6 lin. long, 4-5 lin. in diam., oblong, compressed ; scales in 
17 rows, membranous, brown, chestnut-brown and scabrid on the margins. 
Seed smooth, oblong, compressed, obtuse or slightly bilobed at the base, 
very shortly mucronate at the apex, 4-51 lin. long, 3-4 lin. wide, 24 lin. 
thick, fixed at the lower end; hilum roundish; raphe linear, passing 
into an adpressed mammilla; chalaza in the upper half of the seed ; testa 
chestnut-brown, smooth, somewhat shining; albumen homogeneous, 
horny, impinged upon on the dorsal side by the testa and the raphe; 
embryo ventral, horizontal, about half-way up the albumen.—Hook. f. 
in Kew Report, 1882, 69; Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus 
secundiflorus, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 15, tt. 9-10; Mart. in Miinch. gel. 
Anzeig. 1838, 639, and Palm. iii, 341; Tuckey, River Congo, 497; 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 291. C. (Ancistrophyllum) secundiflorus, 
Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxiv. 432, t. 38, fig. D, t. 41, fig. G, 
t. 43, fig. C; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl.Congo, i. 272. C. Schwein- 
furthii, Bece. ex Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Niger Delta: mouth of the River 
Nun, Mann, 453! and along the coast from the equator to Sierra Leone, ex Mann. 
Benin, Beauvois (ex Drude). Niger Expedition, without precise locality, Barter; 
61! Old Calabar, Milne! Cameroons; Barombi, Preuss, 389 (ex Drude). 
#. Nile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam ; at Mansilli Brook, Schwein- 
Furth, 2860! 
