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formed of 2 opposite leaflets only ; the leaflets are lanceolate-ensiform, or 
oblanceolate, and taper almost equally to both ends, have the base rather 
acute, and are shortly and suddenly acuminate in a slightly bristly-spinulous 
tip ; are papyraceous, rather firm, glossy on both surfaces, but especially — 
above, very slightly paler beneath, with an acute mid-costa and a few slender 
side-nerves, all quite naked on both surfaces, though at times the mid-costa 
is slightly spinulous above near the apex ; margins remotely and minutely 
ciliate-spinulous, more closely near the apex; transverse veinlets very 
crowded, fine and sharp ; intermediate leaflets 40-50 cm. long, 3°5-4 cm. 
broad, the lowest smallest, those of the terminal group shorter, but not 
narrower. Male spadix somewhat shorter than the leaves (70 em. long in 
one specimen), erect, strict, having an elongate pedicellar part bearing only 
one dense and narrow cupressiform panicle, about 20 em. long (perhaps at 
times the spadix is longer, and with more than one panicle) ; the primary 
spathe is very elongate, and at first enfolds the spadix; it is tubular, 
flattened with acute edges, closely sheathed in its lower part, and is produced 
above into an open, thinly membranous, lacerate, lanceolate-acuminate limb, 
it is sprinkled all over outside with minute tuberculiform prickles ; the 
panicle is composed of several gradually diminishing, very approximate, very 
densely flowered, short spikelet-bearing branchlets, inserted at an angle of 
45°, subtended by secondary thinly membranous, dry, lanceolate-acuminate, 
more or less lacerated, secondary spathes, only a little shorter than their 
respective branchlets ; the branchlets have the appearance of being small, 
simple, cylindrical spikes, 5-6 em. long in the basal part of the panicle, 
gradually a little shorter above ; in fact, however, they are composed of 
several, very short, very closely drawn together, alternate, distichous 
spikelets, the lowest of which are 8-10 mm. long, with 7~8 very approximate 
flowers on each side ; the upper spikelets gradually diminish in length and 
number of flowers; spathels bracteiform, membranous, concave with a 
triangular acute apex, surpassing the involucre; this is deeply cupular, 
or subeampanulate, truncate, not distinctly two-keeled, and bidentate on the 
side next to the axis. Male flowers very closely packed together, oblong,. 
6 mm. long; the calyx deeply 4-lobed; the corolla twice as long as the 
calyx, narrowing a little above to a bluntish apex. Female spadix and fruit 
unknown. 
Hab. Humboldt Bay, ridge behind the village, 700’, scrambling in high 
forest. @. Jan. 6267. 
A very distinct species, but with very marked affinities with C@: macro- 
chamis Becc. It belongs to Group V. of my monograph, characterized 
mainly by non-cirriferous leaves, and by the leaf-sheaths furnished with 
a long clawed flagellum ; in that group it falls into the division which 
contains C. macrochlamys and other Papuan species, all having very large and 
elongate chartaceous ocree. Even among these species C. humboldtianus 
