180 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [Q,. javensis 
the side next to the axis, attached to the base of the spathel above its own. 
Male flowers inserted at an angle of 45°, rather variable, perfectly bifarious, the 
one close to the next or more or less distant, 3—4:5 mm. long, narrow, cylindrical 
or obsoletely trigonous, rather acute; calyx  urceolate-campanulate, more or less 
distinctly striately veined, divided down to a little above the middle into three 
broad acute lobes; corolla about twice as long as the calyx or even longer, 
divided down almost to the base into 3 oblong acute segments; stamens very 
shortly united at the base, the filaments slender, filiform, subulate, much longer 
than their anthers, inflected at the apex; anthers versatile, narrowly sagittate, 
acute, their cells deeply discrete at the base; rudimentary ovary conspicuous, 
reaching about to the middle of the corolla, formed by a short pedicel (the 
ovary) and 3 linear connivent bodies (the stigmas), Female spadix . very 
variable in size, filiform, very elongate and with very few partial inflorescences, 
otherwise very much the same as the male one; primary spathes as in the male 
spadix; partial inflorescences 17-20 cm. long in large specimens, or 5-6 cm, 
only in small ones, terminating in a small and short more or less developed 
slender appendix, horizontal or deflexed and ,with a conspicuous axillary callus, 
their axis more or less zig-zag sinuous with 2-4 remote distichous spikelets on 
each side; secondary spathes very narrowly tubular, slightly enlarged above, very 
closely sheathing, smooth or aculeolate, obliquely truncate and ciliate at the mouth, 
prolonged at one side into an acuminate point; spikelets 2-5 cm. long, inserted at 
the mouth of their own spathe by means of a large axillary callus, horizontal or 
deflexed, rigid, with zig-zag sinuous axes; the largest with 10-13, the smaller with 
5-6 flowers on each side; spathels strongly striately veined, very broadly sub-infundi- 
buliform when the flowers are rather remote, bracteiform and boat-shaped when 
approximate, always acute at one side; involucrophorum short, shallow, sub-cupular or 
almost explanate, attached laterally to the base of the spathel above its own; in- 
voluere shallow, irregularly cupular, strongly striately veined as is the involucrophorum 
and scarcely longer than it; areola of the neuter flower large, roundish, often deeply 
emarginate above, with acute and sharply defined margins. Female flowers almost 
horizontal, perfectly bifarious, not very remotely set, alternate, 3 mm. long, flat at 
the base, very slightly conical; calyx superficially striately veined, divided down 
almost to the middle into 3 very broad acute lobes; corolla twice as long as the calyx 
or a little less, divided down almost to the base into 3 lanceolate acute segments, 
polished outside; stamens almost equalling the corolla, with filaments united in the 
lower portion into a rather long tube, free, triangular and subulate upwards; anthers 
flattened, sagittate. Ovary columnar with the stigmas triangular, large and showing 
among the segments of the corolla. Neuter flowers large, thinner but scarcely shorter 
than the fertile ones, deciduous when these have been fertilized. Fruiting perianth 
sub-pedicelliform, somewhat hardened and callous at the base. Fruit globose or a little 
longer than broad, about 8 mm. in diam., topped by a cylindric 29:5 mm. long beak; 
scales in 18 series, light coloured, yellowish or greenish, flattish or slightly depressed 
in the centre, channelled along the middle, almost obtuse, with a pale erosely toothed 
margin and a faint intramarginal line, which is more distinct across the rather obtuse 
point. Seed sub-dimidiately globose, flattish and with a circular and rather deep chalazal 
fovea on the raphal side, roundish on the back, where the surface is obsoletely 
