308 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. LC. hypoleucus. 
or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed to and rather acute at the base, shortly acuminate 
from near the apex into an acute bristly point, opaque on the upper surface, where 
bordered along the lower margin with a broad shining band, conspicuously mealy- 
white beneath, with 7-9 slender but distinct eostae, of which the mesial is barely 
stronger than the others, all smooth on both surfaces; transverse veinlets moderately 
crowded, rather distinct and much interrupted; margins acute, naked near the base, 
ciliate with small spreading spinules near the summit; the largest leaflets, the 
intermediate ones, 13-22 cm. in length, 3-45 om. broad, those near the base 
narrower and shorter; the two of the terminal pair a trifle smaller than the others, 
quite free at the base. Male spadix . . . . > Female spadiz very short and 
comparatively compact, in one specimen 15 cm. long, attached near the mouth of 
its leaf-sheath with a distinct axillary callus and transverse rima; its peduncular part 
3 em. long, compressed, flat on the inner side, slightly: convex on the back, armed at 
the margins with straight slender spines; primary spathes imbrieate, relatively large, 
broad, concavo-cymbiform, elliptic, narrowed to both ends, acute at the summit, tbilny 
pepyraceous, exsuccous, brown, fragile, glabrous, subnitescent inside, opaque and paler 
outside; the lowest very shortly tubular at the base, ventricose, almost entirely 
enveloping the others, with two faint sparingly spinulous keels on the back; the others 
(4-9 smooth, longer than their respective inflorescences, the one overlapping or partially 
covering that immediately above, and gradually smaller; partial inflorescences small, 
embraced by and shorter than their respective spathes, erect, ovate, rather dense, with 
an acutely zig-zag sinuous axis, the largest, the lowest, 5 cm, long with 6-7 spikelets 
on each side; secondary spathes small, tubular, angular by pressure, slightly enlarged | 
above, finely striately veined, prolonged at the summit into an elongate entire subulately 
acuminate point; spikelets erect, their axis very strongly and very suddenly zig-zag 
sinuous, the lower ones, the largest, 12-15 mm. long with 5-6 distichous (2) flowers 
on each side, the upper ones shorter and few-flowered; spathels (small) irregularly 
infundibuliform, angular by pressure of the flowers, considerably extended at one side 
into a triangular acuminate patent strongly striately veined point; involucre hori- 
zontally subtended by its own spathel and attached at the base of the one above, 
irregularly disciform, explanate; involucre calyculiform, almost explanate, with 3 acute 
strongly veined lobes; the areola of the neuter flower depressedly sublunate. Female 
Jlowers very small, 2 mm. long, ovate-conie, acute, with a flat base; the calyx striately 
veined, callous at the base, shortly 3-toothed; the corolla scarcely longer than the 
calyx, divided down almost to the base into 3 narrowly lancevlate acute segments; 
stamens united by their bases and forming a mot very high ring or cup, crowned 
by 6 short triangular teeth; anthers broadly sagittate. Neuter flowers apparently very 
well developed, longer and narrower than the female ones (3 mm, long), obsoletely 
trigonous, attenuate and acute at the summit; the calyx tubular-companulate, 3-toothed, 
striately veined; the corolla twice as long as the calyx, divided down about to the 
middle into 3 narrowly lanceolate acuminate segments; stamens with subulate rather 
thick filaments, which are united together and to the undivided portion of: the 
corolla; the anthers ovate, obtuse, abortive; no rudiment of an ovary (?). Fruit 
unknown. 
Hasrrar.—Burma, at Thoungyeen in the Karen country (18° N. iat), discovered 
by Sir D. Brandis (Kew and Calcutta Herb.). ; 
