DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 175 
b*. Male and female spadices having sessile spikelets inserted at or 
near the mouths of their respective spathes. 
c’. Primary spathes elongate and closely sheathing. 
ad’. Fruit containing three seeds. 
e’. Robust; leaflets large, subequidistant, lanceolate, long-acum- 
inate, plicate-pluricostulate; spikelets thickish, as much as 
15 to 16 cm long: fruit spherical, 14 to 17 mm in diameter. 
13. C. manillensis. 
e*. A smaller plant; leaflets broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
subequidistant in the full-grown plant, in pairs on each side 
of the rachis in young plants; fruit obovoid, conspicuously 
pee sess <5 SS EN TiS > Sel alia 14. C. trispermus. 
d. Fruit 1-seeded. 
e’. Leaflets equidistant or nearly so. 
f. Leaflets broadly lanceolate, pluricostulate. 
g. Two female flowers at every spathel with a neuter one in- 
terposed between the two. 
h*. Female spadix very dense and with short branches; 
spikelets short and with few flowers; female flowers 
relatively large, 6 mm long; immature fruits fusiform; 
fruiting perianth campanulate ................ 15. C. Arugda. 
h*. Female spadix very diffusely branched; spikelets elongate 
and with numerous flowers; fruit globose-ovoid; fruit- 
ing perianth shortly pedicelliform............ 16. C. vinosus. 
g’. One female flower only at each spathel, with a neuter 
flower at its side. 
h*, Fruit small, pisiform; seed pitted, the albumen equable 
or nearly so. 
. Leaflets narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, equally narrowed 
at both ends, more or less spinulose on some nerves 
above, smooth underneath; fruit 8 to 9 mm in dia- 
meter, having squarrose scales in twelve longitud- 
INA ISERIES eee ae Se 17. C. Moseleyanus. 
. Leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, more or less spinulous 
on some nerves above, smooth underneath; fruit 6.5 
mm in diameter, having appressed scales in 18 to 
20 longitudinal series .................... 18. C. mindorensis. 
. Leaflets lanceolate, very long-acuminate without bris- 
tles or spines on either surface; fruit globose-ovoid, 
6 mm in diameter, shortly conical-ovoid, and having 
squarrose scales; leaf-sheaths quite unarmed. 
19. C. multinervis. 
h*?. Fruit rather large; seed with a deeply ruminated 
albumen. 
i. Leaflets large, broadly lanceolate, 40 to 42 cm long, 
4 to 4.5 em wide, pluricostulate and with the nerves 
smooth on both surfaces; fruit spherical, 2 cm in 
dyameter sc 5 eee ee 20. C. grandifolius. 
@. Leaflets 5-costulate, elliptic-lanceolate, 22 to 25 cm 
long, 30 to 32 mm wide, with the nerves smooth 
on both surfaces; fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, conspicuously 
beaked, 25 mm long, 18 mm thick. 
21. C. Jenningsianus. 
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