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subulate spines and prickles, those of the edges being the longest. 

 Spathes with obsolete limbs, the lowest about 1 foot long, com- 

 pressed, keeled along the centre of the back and, excepting the 

 short, erect, half-lanceolate limb, armed with straight prickles 

 having conical bases. The other spathes are shorter, more clavate, 

 without an obvious keel and only slightly armed, or as the upper- 

 most, quite unarmed. Branches of fruiting spadix verj^ stout; 

 spikes 1-4 inches long, strongly recurved. Fruit obovoid or 

 globose, f inch in diameter, shortly beaked ; pericarp thin ; scales 

 chestnut brown, obscurely channelled, shining ; fruiting calyx large, 

 ctipular, ^ inch in diameter, lobes verjr short. Seed deeply pitted. 

 (Fig. 3). 



Fk;. 3.— Branch of fruiting spadix rtitli part of flaKellum of Calamus 

 acanthosj)atlnis. (After Griffith.) 



