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thin, hard, black margins thereof cut into mumerous, very 
short, curved spines, Spathes numerous, there being one 
at each joint of the various ramifications of the spadix, 
all smooth and when recent, of a pale yellowish green. 
Inflorescence, (spadix) terminal; it may be called an 
immense, more than supra-déecompound, round pani- 
cle ; in this species it is of a much smaller span than 
the leaves, and only about one fourth or one fifth part of 
the whole height ofthe tree ; the various and innumerable 
ramifications are always alternate, smooth and of a pale 
yellow colour. Flowers small, sessile, collected in little 
bundles over the ultimate divisions of the panicle, pale 
yellow, small, rather offensive. Calyx small, three-tooth- 
ed. Petals three, oblong, reflexed, shorter than the sta- 
mina. Filaments six, broad at the base, and there uni- 
ted, toward the apex, slender and incurved. Anthers 
ovate. ‘Germ superior, round-ovate, three-lobed, three. 
celled, with one ovulain each, attached to the bottom 
_ ofits cell. Style short, three-grooved. Stigma three-lob- 
ed. Berry globular, the size of a musket ball, olive-co- 
loured, smooth when fresh, but it soon becomes dry and 
wrinkled, one-celled ; the two abortive lobes of the germ 
are always to be found at the base, Seed solitary, sub- 
globular. Integuments, apparently two, but they are firm- 
ly united, and of a friable texture ; the exterior one pale 
yellowish brown, and veined ; the interior one brown, and 
adhering firmly to the perisperm. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, of a hard, horny texture, and pale gray colour, 
Embryo simple, short, cylindric, lodged near the apex of 
the perisperm. 
3. C. umbraculifera. Willd. 2. 201. Gert. sem. 1.18 t. 7. 
Leaves sublunate, palmate-pinnatifid, plaited. Seg- 
ments from forty to fifty pair; petioles armed. Injflores- 
Cence pyramidal, equalling the trunk of the tree, if ie; 
~ Sryo in the base of the need. Geert.) ies 
