251 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [@, barbatus.» 
of the ‘surface armed with subulate, straight, scattered, horizontal or slightly deflexed 
spines which arise from a swollen base. Leaf-sheath flagella filiform, clawed upwards, 
strictly sheathed in their basa! portion with a flattened spathe which is spinous at the 
margins and densely bristly at the mouth, ^ Ocrea rather short, liguliform, densely bristly- 
hispid, decurrent on the borders of the leaf-sheaths and at the base of the petiole. 
Leaves about 1 m. in length, not cirriferous; petiole short (4-7 cm. long) naked or 
sparsely aculeolate at the sides, convex, polished and unarmed beneath, slightly concave 
or faintly and broadly channelled above near the base, flattish upwards, rachis chan- 
nelled above in its fitst portion, bifaced upwards, rounded beneath, where armed near 
the base at the sides and throughout along the middle with small solitary or geminate 
claws; leaflets numerous, inequidistant or approximate into a few groups of many, 
where they are equidistant and about 15 mm. apart one from the other, the various 
groups being separated by vacant spaces of 4-5 cm. in length, narrowly lanceolate, 
almost equally attenuated to both ends, gradually acuminate into a bristly-penicillate 
tip, thinly .chartaceous, rigidulous, almost concolorous on both surfaces, 10-18 cm. long, 
1 cm. broad, sub-3-costate above, with the mid-costa acute and one weaker nerve 
on each side of it; all three furnished with few, relatively strong, almost black setae; 
beneath all nerves faint and naked; transverse veinlets fine, not very crowded; margins 
with few and long cilia. Male spadiz . . . . . Female spadiz rigid, short, simply 
decompound; primary spathes tubular, slightly enlarged above, chartaceous, aculeolate 
on the back, more or less lengthened ovt at the summit into a lanceolate limb, 
bristly-bearded at the margins; partial inflorescences stiff, erect, the largest seen by 
me about 20 cm. long, furnished with 3-4 spikelets on each side and terminated 
by a rigid tail-like appendix; secondary spathes elongate-infundibuliform, unarmed, - 
finely striately veined, entire, obliquely truncate and naked at the mouth, prolonged at 
one side into a triangular erect acute point; spikelets inserted just at the mouth of 
their own spathe and arising erect from it, then spreading flexuose, rigid, cylindraceous, 
rather thick, terminated by a short, tail-like, rigid, 1 em. long appendix: spathels 
infundibuliform, finely furfuraceous, striately veined, truncate and naked at the mouth, 
where produced at one side into a short, acute, patent point; involucrophorum cupular, 
hollowed out into the base of the spathel which is above its own and with a very 
short limb; involucre deeply cupular, truncate, emarginate on the side next to the axis; 
areola of the sterile. flower distinct, depressedly lunate. Female flowers relatively large 
(9 mm.) Fruiting perianth not pedicellifotm, but with the calyx narrowed and’ callous 
at the base and enclosed in the involucre, divided down beyond the middle into 
3 ovate, acute lobes; corolla with the segments narrow and not longer than the calyx, 
Fruit (mature) obovate, about 18 mm. long and 11-12 mm. in diam., conically 
beaked; scales in 18 Series, dark-yellowish, convex, slightly channelled along the 
middle with -a rather broad, very dark intramarginal line and lighter, erosely toothed 
tip and margins, Seed irregularly subspha:ric, 9 mm: long, 6 mm. thick, with a 
deep circular chalazal fovea on the raphal side, convex and uneven on the back: 
albumen equable; embryo basal. : i 
;.. HaBrrar.—The native country of this Species is said by Blume and Miquel to 
be New Guinea, where it was probably gathered by Zippel on the southern coast of 
that Island; but Blume on a label to some fruits of this species in the Leyden 
Herbarium has written: “Timor; Zippel;" Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 101) gives 
