108 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
almost squarrose, flattish, not or obscurely channelled. Seed globose, deeply pitted and 
irregularly grooved; albumen subruminate. 
The Philippines. 
149. C. trispermus Bece.—.Leaves non-cirriferous (of the lower part of the 
plant?) Leaflets few, inequidistant, approximate in pairs on each side of the rachis, 
somewhat coneave-convex, oblanceolate, 30-32 cm. long, 6 em. broad, with 5 distinet 
costee, these smooth ou both surfaces; margins closely and adpressedly spinulous. 
Female spadix panicled; partial inflorescences 40-45 em. long, with 5-6 spikelets on 
each side; spikelets 12-16 cm. long with 12-15 flatly bifarious, 6 mm. long flowers 
on each side. Fruit with 3 seeds, broadly obovoid, suddenly beaked, 18 mm. long, 
12-13 mm. broad. Scales in 15 longitudinal series and each series composed of 
about 12 scales, shining, faintly channelled. Seeds smooth, convex externally and 
with 2 flat faces on the exialside; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
The Philippines. 
150. C. manillensis H. Wendl.—Female spikelets large, thickly vermicular, cylin-. 
draceous, 18 cm. long (in one specimen), with about 19 flowers on each side, inserted 
just at the mouth of their own spathe ; spathels shortly infundibuliform, Fruiting 
perianth explanate. Fruit usually with 3 seeds, globose, 15-17 mm. in diam., shortly © 
beaked, the thin scaly pericarp very brittle. Scales in 12 longitudinal series,- each 
series composed of about 6 well-conformed scales, shining, rather deeply channelled. 
Seeds smooth, convex externally and with 2 flat faces on the axial side; albumen 
equable; embryo basal. 
'The Philippines. 
151. C. axillaris Bece.— Seandent. Sherthed stem 2 cm. in diam. Leaves about 
1m. long in the pinniferous part, terminated by a rather slender cirrus; petiole 
almost obsolete. Leaflets not very numerous, inequidistant, but not distinctly fascicled, 
narrowly lanceolate or subensiform, the largest up to 32 cm. long and 2 cm. broad 
with 3 or almost 5 costule, these smooth on both surfaces. Mal spadiz spuriously 
axillary (in one specimen), slender, almost quite unarmed, partially supradecom- 
pound, 1:4 m. long, terminated by a spikelet; partial inflorescences few, 12—20 cm. 
long, attached outside the mouth of their respective spathes; simple spikelets 2—2:5 
em., long, arched subscorpioid, with 6-12, not exactly flatly bifarious flowers on each 
side. 
The Malayan Peninsula, 
152. C. neglectus Becc.—Apparently scandent and rather slender, Leaves 
terminated by a slender cirrus. Leaflets inequidistant, linear-lanceolate, unicostate, the 
largest 18-20 cm. long, 10-13 mm. broad; the costa and one slender nerve on each 
side of it sprinkled with fulvous bristles above, underneath the midcosta only closely 
hairy; margins ciliate. Female spadiz with several rather approximate partial inflore- 
scances, which arise erect from or a little above the mouth of their own spathe and 
then are arched, spreading; spikelets arched, inserted just above the mouth of their 
own spithe, 6-7 cm. long, with 8-10 distichous rather remote flowers on each side. 
Fruiting perianth subpedicelliform. Fruit ovoid-elliptic. long-beaked, Scales not or 
very faintly channelled along the middle. Seed deeply pitted. 
The Malayan Peninsula. a 
