268 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. Godefroyi. 
not cirriferous, about 60 em. long, ovate in outline. Leaf-sheath flagella very sparingly 
prickly in their basal portion; petiole 0; rachis flattish beneath where armed along 
the middle. with small solitary black- tipped claws and in its basal portion with a 
few straight small spines at the sides; in the upper surface the rachis is acutely 
bifaced from a little above the base where more or less prickly; leaflets rather 
numerous (15-16 on each side) narrowly lanceolate, a good deal narrowed to and 
acute at the base, gradually acuminate at the summit, papyraveous, rather rigid, shining 
above, green, slightly paler beneath, the mid-costa rather acute above where provided 
chiefly near the base with a few rigid spinules and accompanied on each side 
by 3-4 secondary nerves; underneath the, mid-costa bristly-spinulous and the 
side-nerves naked and sinuous; transverse veinlets much interrupted but rather 
distinct; margins finely spinulous; the largest leaflets, thoss a little above the base, 
30-35 cm. long, 2°5 cm. broad, those near the mouth of the sheath narrower, 
but barely shorter, the others very speedily and gradually decreasing in length 
but not in breadth, less acuminate and with a distinct indentation on the lower 
margin a little below the apex; the two of the terminal pair free at the base, 10 
em. long, 8-19 mm. broad. Male spadiz . . . . Female spadix laterally inserted 
near the mouth of the leaf-sheath with a do axillary callus, slender, flagelli- 
form, rather rigid and strict, 1:2 m.-1'3 m. long, with very few and small 
(4-5) partial inflorescences and terminating in a short minutely clawed flagellum; 
primary spathes elongate, tubular, closely sheathing, usually decayed and brittle (aot 
fibrous} at their summit; the lowest somewhat flattened, with rather acute smooth or 
slightly prickly margins and surface; the upper ones more cylindraceous, slightly 
enlarged above, armed externally in their attenuated or axial part with small black- 
tipped solitary claws ; partial inflorescences erect, inserted just at or near the mouth 
of their respective spathes, the lower ones, the largest, 10-12 cm. long with very 
few (3-4) spikelets on each side; secondary spathes tubular and infundibuliform, 
somewhat angular by pressure, truncate at the mouth, slightly prolorged at one side 
into a small triangular point; spikelets inserted at the mouth of their respective 
spathes with a rather distinct axillary callus and its transversal rima, patent, arched, 
subscorpioid, rather rigid; the lower ones, the largest, 2-2:5 cu. long with 5-6 
slightly assurgent (not perfectly flatly bifarious) flowers on each side; the upper 
ones speedily decreasing in length and number of flowers; spathels very shorily 
and broadly infundibuliform, truncate and entire; involucrophorum flat, disciform, 
almost’ horizontally subtended by its own spathel and inserted at the base of the 
one above; involucre flat, disciform, obsoletely 3-toothed; areola of the neuter 
flower very depressed, linear. Female flowers very small, about 2 mm. long. Fruiting 
perianth very shortly pedicelliform, the calyx flat and callous at the base; the corolla 
one-third longer than the calyx. Fruit spheric, about 12 mm. in diam., not beaked, 
mammmillate at its vertex; scales straw-yellow with a narrowly reddish-brown margin, 
shining, faintly channeiled along the middle. 
Hasirat,—Lower Cochinchina, where discovered by M. M. Godefroy-Leboeuf, 19th 
July 1879, on the flooded banks of the Great Lake near Siem Reap. (Herb, Kew). 
OssrRvaTIONS.— The specimens examined had only female spadices, whence all the 
fruits had fallen away, and of these only one, a detached and immature one, was 
