82 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
. 4/. C. mollis Blanco.—Seandent, slender. Leaf sheaths sparingly spinous, densely 
hairy, brittle at the mouth. Ocrea spinulose, Leaves 40-60 cm. long; the petiole very 
short. Leaflets narrowly lanceolate, not very numerous, inequidistant, but not fasci- 
cled, unicostate or  sub-3-costulate, the mesial ones 20-27 cm. long, 2 cm. 
broad. Male spadiz flagelliform, ultra-decompound ; spikelets with very closely packed 
spathels. Female spadiz simply decompound, elongate; primary spathes as in the male 
spadix, elongate, closely sheathing, armed with many recurved prickles; spikelets short, 
25-4 cm. long, with 12-18  distichous, very crowded flowers on each side; spathels 
very closely packed, bracteiform.. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit small, sub-obovate- 
elliptic, abruptly beaked, 1 cm. long including the beak. 
Philippines. | 
48. C. Meyenianus Schauer.—Like C. mollis, but leaf-sheaths and primary spathes 
‘quite smooth. Ocrea naked. ! 
Philippines. 
49. C. Blancoi Kunth.—Scandent, very slender. Sheathed stem 5-7 mm. in diam. 
Leaf-sheaths armed with needle-like almost bristly spines, the mouth truncate and 
hairy-bristly. Leaves 35-40 cm. long; the petiole very short. Leaflets few (14-17 in 
all), very inequidistant but not distinctly fascicled, linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
subulately acuminate, 25-30 cm. long, 7-12 mm. broad, their mid-costa spinulous on 
both surfaces; side-nerves very slender; the two terminal leaflets free at the base. Male 
spadiz slender, partially ultra-decompound; primary spathes elongate, hairy-bristly 
at the mouth, aculeolate; spikelets short, 10-15 mm. long; spathels bracteiform, con- 
cave. Female spadiz simply decompound; spikelets few, short, 10-12 mm, long; 
spathels shortly and broadly infundibuliform. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform, 
Philippines. 
90. C. rivalis Thw.—Scandent: more or less rusty-furfuraceous in the different 
parts and especially on the flowers, involucra and spathels. Sheathed stem 1-2 
cm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths with straight, scattered, subulate spines. Leaves about 
1 m. long; the petiole short. Leaflets numerous, rather approximate, equidistant, linear- 
lanceolate or ensiform, 3-costate, the mid-costa with a few long bristles beneath; the 
leaflets near the base the largest, 40-45 cm, long, 15-20 mm. broad. Male spadiz 
elongate, partially ultra-decompound. Female spadix also elongate and flagelliform, 
simply decompound; partial inflorescences 20-30 em. long, with 5-10 spikelets on 
each side; the largest spikelets 5-6 cm. long with 8-10 flowers on each side, 
Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. Fruit small, very broadly ovoid, abruptly beaked, 
11 mm. long including the beak, 7-8 mm. broad. Scales in 18 Series, not or very 
faintly channelled along the middle, i 
Ceylon. | 
ól. C. Metzianus Schl.—Dimensions of leaf-sheaths and leaves as in C. rivalis. 
Fruit broadly ovoid, very distinctly and abruptly contracted into an about 3 mm. 
long beak, 17 mm. long including the beak and perianth, 11 mm. broad. Scales dis- 
tinetly channelled along the middle, | 
Lower India: Canara. 
