190 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit ovoid, 13-15 mm. long, 1 cm. broad. Seales in 
18 series, straw-yellow, strongly gibbous; narrowly channelled. Seed ovoid, coarsely 
alveolate; albumen equable; embryo basal. 
British New Guinea. 
198. C. Hartmannii Becc.—Erect, 2°5-3 m. high, Leaves non-cirriferous, about 
60 em, long including the petiole, this 15 cm. long and feebly armed with hooked 
prickles. Leaflets not. very numerous, inequidistant, usually in pairs on each side of 
the rachis, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, slightly concave-convex, 3—5-costulate, 
smooth on both surfaces, the largest 14 cm, long, 3 em, broad; transverse veinlets, 
very sharp and continuous across the blade, margins inconspicuously spinulous, 
terminal leaflet bilobed. | 
British New Guinea. 
199. C. discolor Mart.—Not very high, scandent.  Leaf-sheaths flagelliferous 
densely bristly. Leaves non-cirriferous, about 1 m. in length; petiole 15 cm. long, 
rachis rusty furfuraceous, armed with solitary approximate claws. Leaflets very 
numerous, spreading, pectinate, very closely and regularly set, green above, con- 
spicuously white beneath, unicostate, linear-lanceolate, 20-30 cm. long, 18-24 mm. 
broad, with long bristles on 3 nerves above and on the mid-costa beneath ; margins 
conspicuously ciliate. Female-spadiz 1:1-1°3 m. Jong, erect, narrowly panicled, flagel- 
liferous at its summit, with a few alternate partial inflorescences, these arched- 
subscorpioid, twice branched in their lower part; primary spathes split longitudinally 
and lacerate at the summit; spikelets with irregularly arranged flowers. Fruit 
small (not seen ripe), somewhat resembling that of the species of the group of 
C. siphonospathus. 
The Philippines. 
200. C. acidus Becc.—Erect. Leaf-sheaths densely armed with slender spines. 
Female spikelets 2-25 cm. long with two collateral assurgent series of 6 towers each; 
involucre distinctly cupular. Fruit very closely packed, ovate, distinctly conically 
beaked, 15-17 mm, long, 10 mm. broad. Seed flattened, enveloped by an acid fleshy 
integument and with a distinct chalazal fovea. 
Celebes. 
201i. C. (Zalaccella) Harmandi Pierre.—Apparently non-scandent. Leaf-sheaths 
open on the ventral side, armed with long seriate spines. Leaves apparently non- 
cirriferous. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, linear-ensiform, 30-40 em. long, 10-15 
mm, broad, tricostulate, the mid-costa strong and bristly and the side coste 
slender and spinulous above, underneath all nerves quite smooth. Female spadiz strict, 
with a few superposed partial inflorescences which are spiciform, cylindraceous, as 
thick as a man’s finger, about 10 em. long, covered all round with pluriseriate 
flowers. -Friiting perianth explanate. Fruit obovoid, 1 em. long, very closely packed. 
Scales in 18 series, convex, not channelled, Seed pisiform; albumen equable. 
Cochin-China, . 
