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the base and gradually attenuated from not very far above the base into a long 
subulate-acuminate bristly-ciliate tip, with 3 distinct costae, of which the central one 
a good deal more raised and acute than the side ones, all more or less furnished at 
least from the middle upwards, with a few remote subspiny brown bristles; on the 
under surface the 3 costae also sparsely bristly, but the central one slightly prominent 
and the side ones very slender; transverse veinlets rather sharp and much interrup- 
ted; margins remotely ciliate-spinulous. Male spadiz « . . . Female spadiz not 
seen entire; simply decompound; partial inflorescences 25-30 cm. long, somewhat 
arched, their axis slightly zig-zag sinuous and obsoletely trigonous, with 7-8 distichous 
spikelets on each side; primary spathes . . . . .; secondary spathes unarmed, at 
first furfuraceous, speedily glabrous and subshining, tubular-infundibuliform, very closely 
sheathing, obliquely truncate and entire at the mouth and prolonged at one side into 
a short acute point; spikelets spreading, arched and recurved from an ascendent base, 
distinctly callous at their insertion, the largest, the lowest, 8-10 cm. long, with 8-9 
flowers on each side, the upper ones gradually shorter, the extreme 15-20 mm. long 
with 3-5 flowers only; spathels cylindraceous in their lower portion, rather suddenly 
infundibuliform upwards, acute or apiculate at one side; involucrophorum inserted 
outside its own spathel at the base of the one above, distinctly pedicelliform, 1-4 
mm. long, conspicuously callous at its axilla next to the axis, expanded at its 
apex into a small truncate, entire calyculiform limb; involucre discoid-pateriform, 
almost flat, subtrigonous with entire margin; areola of the neuter flower represented 
by a small projecting tubercle, often pedicelliform, Female flowers in two series, both 
pointing upwards or secund, ovate, 5 mm. long; the calyx subcampanulate, coriaceous, 
smooth not veined outside, with 8 very short and very broad acute teeth; the 
corolla about one-fourth longer than the calyx, divided down about to the middle into 
3 broad triangular acute thick polished segments; the stamens with the filaments united 
by their bases, forming a cup as long as the undivided portion of the corolla 
and crowned by 6 short teeth; anthers sagittate, as long as the segments 
of the corolla; ovary ovate; style obsolete ; stigmata thick  trigonous erecto- 
divergent. Fruiting perianth pedicelliform, thick and callous, about 3 mm. long, 
Fruit globose, obpyriform or turbinate-globose, slightly tapering towards the base, 
where  caudiculate, flattish on the top, where very shortly mucronulate, 22-25 
mm. long, 17-18 mm. broad; scales usually m 21 series, somewhat longer than 
broad, strongly gibbous, rather deeply channelled along the middle, shining, pale 
yellow, with a narrow almost black marginal line, prolonged into a triangular 
rather acute adpressed point, not fimbriate and like the margin finely erosely- 
toothed. Seed regularly globose ovoid, rounded at both ends, about 13 mm. long and 
11 mm. broad, deeply ruminate, covered with the very adherent opaque granular 
integument ; embryo basal. 
Hasrrar.—Lower India. Nilghiri Hills in the Makurti forest at about 1500 m. | 
above the level of the sea, J. S. Gamble, June 1884, with mature fruit. 
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. — OmsERVATIONS.—I have seen of this an intermediate portion of a leaf with a few 
leaflets and a few detached partial inflorescences with female flowers and mature 
fruit. 
