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with 5-7 slender costae whicli are smooth on both surfaces. 

 Male spadix ultra-decompound with several panicled-pyramidate 

 partial inflorescences. Spikelets (fig. 5) distinctly callous in 



b 



Fi 



I. 



1 . Portion of flowering spikelet of C. unifarius var. pentone/. 



^. Portion of a fruitinp: spikelet of C. didymocarpus for comparison 



rt=involncrophortim. fc=involucrc. c=areola. /i=scar of areola. 



•i=axillary callus. 7(;=spathel. (After Beccari). 



