100 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALOUTTA. 
paired on each side of the rachis, the pairs usually opposite and remote, the costz 
and margins quite smooth. Male spadiz inserted remote from the mouth of the 
sheath; primary spathes almost unarmed; spikelets very short, with very few assurgent 
(not flatly bifarious) flowers. | 
Celebes. 
122. C. adspersus Bl.—Scandent and rather large. Leaves 1°8-2°5 m. long in 
the pinniferous part, the cirrus *0-1 m. long, somewhat irregularly armed with 
half-whorled claws; petiole rather short. Leaflets subequidistant, 18-20 on each 
side, very narrowly lanceolate, 30-40 cm. long, 20-27 mm. broad, with 3 bristly 
cost above, smooth underneath; margins conspicuously ciliate. Female  spadiz 
2-27 m. long with many spreading and arched partial inflorescences; spikelets 
arched, the largest 7-8 cm. long with two assurgent series of 8-10 flowers each; 
involucrophorum pedicelliform ; involucre furnished with a pedicel, 15-2 mm. long, 
for the neuter flower. Fruit stalked by the pedicelliform involucrophorum, globose, 
13-14 mm. in diam.. Scales deeply channelled. Seed globular, coarsely pitted ; 
albumen subruminate ; embryo basal. | 
Java. ' 
728. C. plicatus Bl.—Slender and probably scandent. Leaves about 60 cm. long, 
terminated by two decurrent leaflets (sometimes cirriferous ?); petiole very short. 
Leaflets not very numerous, inequidistant, paired on each side of the rachis, 
13-15 cm. long, 15-18 mm. broad, subspathulate, concave-convex, very suddenly 
caudate-acuminate, concolorous, deeply longitudinally plicate, and with about 7 
coste quite smooth on both surfaces. 
Celebes, 
124. C. Minahasse Warb.—Scandent, very slender.  Leaf-sheaths 6-7 mm. in 
diam., irregularly armed with flat subulate spines. Leaves” 35-50 cm. long with a 
slender feebly clawed cirrus; petiole 1-3 cm. long. Leaflets 14-16 in all, approxi- 
mate in 4 groups of 4, separated by long vacant spaces, subconcolorous, oblanceolate, 
with 3-5 slender smooth coste, Female spadix elongate-flagelliform ; spikelets sub- 
scorpioid, inserted above the mouth of their respective spathes with a distinct 
axillary callus. Fruit ovoid, distinctly beaked, about 1 cm. long, 6 mm. broad. 
Scales reddish-brown, not or slightly channelled. Seed ovoid, about 6 mm. long, 
irregularly pitted ; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
Celebes. 
125. C. Cawa Bl.—Slender.  Leaf-sheaths densely armed with slender straight 
spines. Leaves distinctly cirriferous ; petiole elongate. Leaflets few, alternate, remote, 
subequidistant, lanceolate, about 30 cm, long with about 5 (?) spinulous costz. Female 
spadiz elongate, with 3-4 partial inflorescences, these bearing few, about 4 cm. 
iong, spikelets. Fruit pisiform, mucronate. ; 
Moluceas. 
126. C. equestris Willd.  Seandent, rather slender.  Leaf-sheaths not densely 
spinulous. Leaves cirriferous. Leaflets few, inequidistant, subaggregate, lanceolate, 
acute, 18-20 cm. long, 3:5-45 cm. broad, with about 5 (?) spinulous-setose 
