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116. C. Bousigonii Pierre.—Sheathed stem 10-19 mm. in diam.  Leaf-sheaths densely 
armed with small straight spines. Leaves 75-85 em. long; the petiole 15-20 cm. 
long. Leaflets few, subovate-rhomboid, cuneately attenuate towards the base, quite 
glabrous, about 15 cm. long, 6 cm, broad, with 5-7 radiately divergent and naked 
costz. Female spadix flagelliform, about as long as the leaves. Fruiting perianth shortly 
. pedicelliform. Fruit broadly ovoid, very suddenly beaked, 18 mm. long, 14 mm. broad. 
Scales, in 18 series. Seed ovoid, superficially pitted. 
Cochin-China. 
117. C. heteracanthus Zipp.—Of moderate size. Leaves cirriferous. Leaflets not 
numerous 21-25 cm. long, 4:5-6 cm. broad, narrowly oblong or subspathulate, 
distinctly concave-convex with 5 naked coste, green, shining, very sharply and closely 
transversely veined on both surfaces, paired on each side of the rachis, the pairs 
alternate or opposite with long vacant spaces interposed; margins quite smooth. Male 
spadiz ultradecompound, elongate; secondary spathes membranous, tubular-infundibuli- 
form, loosely sheathing. 
New Guinea. 
178. C. symphysipus Mart.—Of moderate size. Leaves subcirriferous, with the 
rachis strongly clawed at its summit, but not prolonged beyond the diminutive leaflets. 
Leaflets remotely inequidistant, not fascicled, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, discolorous, 
or green above and light-yellowish subochraceous beneath, with 6-7 slender quite 
naked cost, margins spinulous; the largest leaflets 28 cm. long, 5 cm. broad. Female 
spadiz rather large and elongate; female flowers stalked on an elongate involucrophorum. 
Fruit spheric, 1 em. in diam, Scales in 24 series. Seed orbicular, somewhat com- 
pressed, not pitted on the surface; albumen equable; embryo lateral. 
Celebes. , 
119. C. Cumingianus Becc.—Of moderate size. Leaflets 20-24 cm. long, 4°5-5°5 
em. broad, oblong-spathulate, slightly concave-convex, opaque, slightly paler beneath 
than above, clustered into alternate groups of 2-4 on each side of the rachis, not 
very sharply transversely veined, plicate-many-costate, the mid-costa spinulous above; 
margins closely serrate-spinulous. Female spadiz ultradecompound; secondary  spathes, 
submembranous, loosely sheathing. Female flowers stalked on an elongate slender 
involucrophorum. 
Philippines. 
720. C. vitiensis Becc.—Apparently rather slender. Leaves 1-1:2 m. long. 
Leaflets concolorous, inequidistant, remote, not fascicled, narrowly lanceolate, 22-25 cm. 
long, 35-36 mm. broad, 5-costate, the coste smooth on both surfaces and the margins 
also smooth except at the summit. Female spadiz not very long, with few partial 
inflorescences; primary spathes cylindraceous, very sparingly prickly or even smooth; 
secondary spathes short, cyathiform, loosely sheathing; female flowers more or less 
stalked by the involucrophorum. Fruiting perianth pedicelliform, Fruit globular, about 
1 em. in diam. 
Fiji Islands. 
121. C. kandariensis Becc.—Slender. Leaves distinctly cirriferous. Leaflets very few, 
concolorous, lanceolate, long-acuminate, flat or nearly so, inconspicuously 5-costulate, 
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