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BECCABI. 



cirrus, and about 80 cm long in the pinniferous part, the petiole about 

 10 nun broad and L2 cm long (in one specimen), quite llai above, and 

 here sprinkled with small and straight ereci spines, convex, and smooth 

 beneath, ils margins acute and sparingly prickly, racbis flattish beneath, 

 where only toward the summit it is armed with Bemiverticillate claws, 

 the lower surface quite smooth, tbe upper surface of racbis prickly near 

 tbc base but Otherwise smooth and with a not very acute salient angle; 

 tbe cirrus is strongly armed with :]-verticilled claws. Leaflets not very 

 numerous, equidistant, rather remotely set (1 to 5 em apart on each side) ; 

 elliptic-lanceolate, broadest about their middle, and equally narrowing 

 to both ends; gradually acuminate to an inconspicuously bristly tip, tbe 

 base acute, rigid-papyraceous, green ou both surfaces, but paler beneath 

 than above, 3- or 5-costulate; tbc COStse very sharp above, smooth on 

 both surfaces with tbe exception of 1 or 2 spimiles, which are occasionally 

 to be found at the base of the mid-costa on the upper surface; transverse 

 \einlets minute, much interrupted, not very prominent, margins minutely 

 spi unions near tbe apex, otherwise smooth. Tbe intermediate leaflets 

 are 22 to 25 cm long, 30 to 32 mm broad, tbe others somewbat smaller, 



Inn of the same form. Male spadix Female spadix apparently 



not very elongate, terminated by a short, tail-like appendix; primary 

 spathes thinly coriaceous, those of the apical portion of the spadix (tbe 

 others not seen by me) flattened, tubular in their lower part, enlarged 

 above and open on the ventral side, terminated by a triangular, acuminate, 

 acutely keeled point, tbc keel spinous; secondary spathes infundibuliform, 

 rather loosely sheathing, unarmed, obliquely truncate and ciliolate at the 

 mouth, produced at one side into a short deltoid point; spikelets short, 

 8 to 3 cm long, scorpioid, rather thick, with very few (4 or 5 in all) 

 alternate flowers j the spikelets of the lower part of the partial inflores- 

 cences probably longer and with a few more flowers. Spathels infundi- 

 buliform, obliquely truncate, very shortly produced into a rather broad 

 triangular point at one side, obscurely dorsally keeled; involucrophore 

 obliquely attached to tbe base of the spathel above its own, sballowly 

 cupular, bidentate on tbe posticous or axial side; involucre sballowly 

 cupular, with an irregular, undulate margin; areola of the neuter flower 

 depresscdly lunate, sharply bordered. Fruit broadly ovoid-elliptic, about 

 85 mm long, 18 mm broad, very suddenly and conspicuously beaked, 

 scab's arranged in 12 longitudinal series, relatively thick, strongly convex, 

 deeply channelled along tbe middle, of a straw-yellow color, with a very 

 narrow blackish marginal line, the point also blackish and very slightly 

 produced. Seed globular, but not exactly spherical, about 11 mm in 

 diameter, ratlicr regularly and minutely foveolatc all around, without 

 a distinct chalazal fovea; albumen very deeply ruminated. 



Mindouo, Mount Hal eon, For. Bur. 4400 Mcrrilt. June, 1906, altitude about 

 1,500 m. Named in honor of Lieut. T. II. Jennings who accompanied Mr. Merritt 

 on liis trip to Mount lliitcon. 



