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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-decompound, 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 of the 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 ofiensive. Ca/yx 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 ovula in each, attached to the bottom 

 of its 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 firin- 

 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. umhraculifera.Willd. 2. 201. G^Brt. sem. 1.18 t. 7. 



Leaves sublunate, palmate-pinnatifid, plaited. 6'^^- 

 »ie«^s from forty to fifty pair ; pefio/es armed. Inflores- 

 cence pyramidal, equalling the trunk of the tree, (Eni^ 

 bryo in the base of the seed. Gsert.) 



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