84 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
56. C. australis Mart.—Scandent.  Sheathed stem about 15 mm. in diam. . Leaf- 
sheaths completely covered with eriniform spicules. Leaves about 60 cm. long, the 
petiole 4-5 cm. long, flattish above. Leaflets 10-18 on each side, slightly in- 
equidistant, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 15-27 cm. long, 20-28 mm. broad » 
unicostate, all nerves on both surfaces and margins naked. Male spadiz elongate, 
flagelliform, ultra-decompound ; primary spathes very elongate; spikelets with numerous 
flatly bifarious flowers. Female spadiz simply decompound, as much as 2 m. long, 
including a slender aculeolate flagellum ; partial inflorescences: 25-30 cm. long, with 
8-129 spikelets on each side; these 5-19 em. long, vermicular, flexuous, with 8-14 
flowers on each side. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit subspheric, about 14 mm. 
in diam. Scales slightly channelled along the middle. 
Australia: N. E. Queensland. 
57. C. Moti Bailey.—Scandent.  Sheathed stem about 15 mm. in diam. . Leaf-sheaths 
densely armed with subseriate spreading acicular spines. Leaves as much as l'8 m, 
long; petiole cylindraceous, about 20 cm. long. Leaflets very numerous, equidistant, 
elongate-lanceolate or ensiform, 40-45 cm. long, 20-2 mm. broad, with 3 slender bristly 
costee above, naked beneath, margins spinulous. Female spadiv simply decompound, 
terminating in a very long and robust strongly clawed flagellum; partial inflorescence 
elongate, with many spikelets on each side; spikelets 5-6 cm. long, with 5-6 
flowers on each side. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. Fruit, subsphzeric, about 
12 mm, in diam., strongly beaked. Scales slightly channelled along the middle. 
Australia: N. E.. Queensland, 
58. C. radicalis H. Wendl.—Scandent, of moderate size. Leaves rather large; 
rachis in the intermediate portion flattish beneath where it is armed along the middle 
with small solitary claws, bifaced above with an acute and spinulous angle. Leaflets 
numerous, equidistant, very narrowly or elongate-lanceclate, 45 cm. long, 20-22 mm. 
broad, sub-3-costulate mainly near the base; the 3 costule with long bristles above, 
and very inconspicuously spinulous beneath; margins appressedly spinulous. 
Australia: N, E. Queensland. 
59. C. zebrinus Bece.—Scandent.  Sheathed stem about 2 cm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths 
ornamented with very many, crowded, subannular, interrupted, lamelliform ridges, which 
are finely spinulous on their crest. Ocrea deciduous. Leaves about 1°7 m. for ; the 
petiole 81 cm, long, flat above. Leaflets very numerous, closely set, equidistant “very 
narrowly linear, 25-30 cm. long, 1 em. broad, 3-costulate, the costule rather daly 
and minutely bristly on both surfaces; margins very finely ciliolate. 
N. E, New Guinea. 
60. C. serrulatus Becc.—Scandent. Sheathed stem as thick as a finger. Leaf- 
sheatha slightly clavate, armed with not many straight scattered subulate spines. Leaves 
about 1:9 m. long ; the petiole long (30 cm.), channelled above. Leaflets numerous 
closely set, equidistant, shining on both surfaces, narrowly linear, 15-16 cm. lon 
8-10 mm. broad; the mid-costa spinulous on both surfaces, and having on a 
