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distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, shortly conically beaked, 15 
mm. long. Scales in 18 series, not channelled along the middle. Seed ellipsoid, 
obscurely tubercled; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
Hong-Kong. 
7193. C. ferrugineus Becc.—Scandent. Leaves  cirriferous. Leaflets narrowly 
sanceolate, uot numerous, remotely opposite, strongly deflexed, each furnished at the 
base with an ascendent small spine. Female spadix rather short, with very few, short, 
partial, subscorpioid inflorescences,  non-flagelliferous; primary spathes fringed at the 
mouth; spikelets subscorpioid with 4 series of assurgent flowers (not flatly bifarious), 
two of the series being of neuter rather large flowers. Fruit broadly ovoid, conically 
beaked, 9-10 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. Leaf-sheaths, petiole, leaf-rachis, axial parts 
of the spadix and spathes covered at first with a rusty deciduous scurf, picea later 
leaves the surface of those organs minutely scabrid. 
Borneo, 
164. C. Kunzeanus Bece.—Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit obovoid; round at 
both ends, not beaked, 1 cm. long, 8 mm. broad. Scales very few, in 12 series, 
loosely imbricate, convex, slightly channelled. Seed ellipsoid with unequal surfaces, 
albumen equable; embryo in the centre of the face opposite to the chalazal fovea. 
Cambodia. 
195. €.  Lauterbachii Bece.—Scandent, rather slender. Leaf-sheaths armed with 
very small spines and apparently furnished with a large ocrea at its summit, Leaves 
non-cirriferons, short, about 40 cm. long. Leaflets very few, 12 in ali and with a 
bilobed. one at the summit (in one specimen), approximate in 3 groups, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, concave-convex, the largest 18-20 em. long, 4 cm. broad, with a 
rather strony mid-costa and 2-3 slender nerves on each side of it; all nerves smooth 
on both surfaces; margins spinulous. Male spadix about as long as the leaves, dense, 
with 4 compact, cupressiform, partial inflorescences; spikelets short and thick, 172 cm. 
long, with very closely packed and apparently pluriseriate (not  bifarious) rather 
large (5 mm. long) flowers. 
German New Guinea. ' 
196. C. fertilis Becc.— Female spikelets 15-18 cm. long, their axis rigid, 
vermicular-cylindraceous, composed of 20-24 tabular-infundibuliform spathels, with 
two perfectly evolute and about 5 mm. long female flowers at each spathei. Fruiting 
perianth explanate. Fruit ovate, suddenly beaked, 16 mm. long, 10-11 mm. broad 
Seales in 18 series, narrowly and neatly channelled. Seed subglobular, irregularly 
pitted; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
British New Guinea, 
197. C.  Macgregorii Bece.—Seandent, Leaves non-cirriferous. Leaflets numerous, 
slightly inequidistant, linear-ensiform, 3-costulate, the largest 30 cm. long, 2 em. 
broad. Female spadix with several small, 16-20 cm. long, partial inflorescences which 
are inserted inside their respective spathes; spikelets short (8-4 cm. long), arched, 
with a pedicellar part which is attached to the bottom of their respective spathels 
