96 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
102. C. Qamblei Becc.—Leaves large. Leaflets 6-7 cm. apart, ensiform, 60-65 
em. long, 25-28 mm. broad, with 3, on both surfaces more or less bristly-spinulous 
coste, margins remotely ciliate-spinulous. Female spadiz with somewhat arched, 
25-30 cm. long partial inflorescences; spikelets arched, subscorpioid. Female flowers 
pointing upwards, ovate, 5 mm. long. Fruit globose-obpyriform or turbinate-globose, 
tapering towards the base, 22-25 mm. long, 17-18 mm. broad. Scales usually in 
21 series, pale yellow, shining, strongly gibbous, distinctly channelled. Seed globose 
ovoid. 
Lower India, 
C. Gamblei var. spherocarpus Becc.—Fruit spherical, not tapering to the base, 
18 mm, in diam. Seed also almost spheerical. 
Lower India. 
103. C. gracilis Roxb.—Seandent. Sheathed stem 15-20 mm. in diam. Leaves 
rather short; petiole 1-3 em. long. Leaflets few, all in one plane, approximate into 
3-4, usually opposite and rather remote groups of 3-5 on each side of the rachis, 
narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, with 3-5 and occasionally on the upper 
surface 7 spinulous costs, underneath the mid-costa only sparingly spinulous. Male 
and female spadices relatively short, ending in a filiform, feebly-clawed flagellum. 
Male flowers relatively large, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick. Female flowers distant, 
horizontal. Fruit broadly ovoid-elliptic, 26-30 mm. long, 14-17 mm. broad; scales 
in 21 series, straw-yellowish, narrowly and deeply channelled along the middle. Seed 
ovoid, ruminated ; embryo lateral, in the centre of one of the faces. 
N. E. India. 
704. C. melanacanthus Mart.—Leaves elongate. Leaflets numerous, regularly bifa- 
rious, equidistant, linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate into a very slender filamentose 
tip, tricostulate, the mid-costa very sparingly bristly spinulous on both surfaces, the 
other two coste furnished with a few long bristles on the upper surface and smooth 
beneath. Female spadix very long and flagelliform, with remote partial inflorescences 
which are inserted outside the mouth of their respective spathes; upper primary spathes 
very long, very narrow and very closely sheathing; spikelets inserted above the mouth 
of their own spathe, 5-6 cm. long with 6-7 alternately distichous rather remote flowers 
on each side. Fruit ovoid-elliptic, 23-25 mm. long, 14-15 mm. broad, Scales in 18 
series, straw-yellowish, channelled along the middle with a very narrow dark line all 
round. Seed oblong, rather deeply ruminate; embryo lateral, in the centre of one of 
the faces. 
Tenasserim. 
705. C. Diepenhorstii Miq.—Scandent. Sheathed stem 1:5—3 cm. in diam. Leaves 
elongate; petiole rather robust and long. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, linear-ensiform 
the largest 35-45 cm. long, 15-18 mm. broad, unicostate, in the upper surface the 
mid-costa only bristly, underneath the mid-costa and one nerve on each side of it 
furnished with long conspicuous bristles; margins ciliate near the apex, otherwise 
smooth. Male and female spadices flagelliform, some metres in length, with very remote 
partial inflorescences. Male spikelets horizontal or deflexed, inserted just at the mouth 
of their own spathes, 1-3 cm. long, with 5-12 flowers on each side. Female spikelets 
4-12 cm. long, horizontal or deflexed, with a distinct axillary callus, with 4-10 
