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b?. Male and female spadices having sessile spikelets inserted at or 
near the mouths of their respective spathes. 
- ¢, Primary spathes elongate and closely sheathing. 
d'. Fruit containing three seeds. 
e'. Robust; leaflets large, subequidistant, lanceolate, long-acum- 
inate, plicate-pluricostulate; spikelets thickish, as much as 
15 to 16 cm long; fruit spherical, 14 to 17 mm in diameter. 
18. C. manillensis. 
e’. A smaller plant; leaflets broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
subequidistant in the full-grown plant, in pairs on each side 
of the rachis in young plants; fruit obovoid, conspicuously 
beaked 14. C. trispermus. 
da’. Fruit 1-seeded. 
e’. Leaflets equidistant or nearly so. 
f'. Leaflets broadly lanceolate, pluricostulate. 
g'. Two female flowers at every spathel with a neuter one in- 
terposed between the two. 
ht, Female spadix very dense and with short branches; 
spikelets short and with few flowers; female flowers 
relatively large, 6 mm long; immature fruits fusiform; 
fruiting perianth campanulate ...............- 15. C. Arugda. 
}2. Female spadix very diffusely branched; spikelets elongate 
and with numerous flowers; fruit globose-ovoid; fruit- 
ing perianth shortly pedicelliform............ 16. C. vinosus. 
g’. One female flower only at each spathel, with a neuter 
flower at its side. 
ht. Fruit small, pisiform; seed pitted, the albumen equable 
or nearly so. 
i. Leaflets narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, equally narrowed 
at both ends, more or less spinulose on some nerves 
above, smooth underneath; fruit 8 to 9 mm in dia- 
meter, having squarrose scales in twelve longitud- 
inal series 17. C. Moseleyanus. 
?. Leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, more or less spinulous 
on some nerves above, smooth underneath; fruit 6.5 
mm in diameter, having appressed scales in 18 to 
20 longitudinal series -...............-.-- 18. C. mindorensis. 
#. Leaflets lanceolate, very long-acuminate without bris- 
tles or spines on either surface; fruit globose-ovoid, 
6 mm in diameter, shortly conical-ovoid, and having 
squarrose scales; leaf-sheaths quite unarmed. 
19. C. multinervis. 
h?. Fruit rather large; seed with a deeply ruminated 
albumen. 
#, Leaflets large, broadly lanceolate, 40 to 42 cm long, 
4 to 4.5 em wide, pluricostulate and with the nerves 
smooth on both surfaces; fruit spherical, 2 cm in 
diameter 20. C. grandifolius. 
7. Leaflets 5-costulate, elliptic-lanceolate, 22 to 25 cm 
long, 30 to 32 mm wide, with the nerves smooth 
on both surfaces; fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, conspicuously 
beaked, 25 mm long, 18 mm thick. 
21. C. Jenningsianus. 
