328 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. ciliaris, 
than the others; margins with very fine closely set and long spreading light cilia; 
the largest leaflets, those from a little above the base to not very far above the 
middle, 7-10 cm. long, 5-8 mm. broad; the others often suddenly decreasing 
in length, the two of the terminal pair very small, unequal, free at the base. Male 
and female spadices very much the same, finely hairy-hispid on the spathes, spathels 
and involucres, slender, lengthened out into an aculeolate filiform flagellum. Male 
spadix ultradecompound, in one specimen 50 cm. long with 4-6 remote partial inflores 
cences; primary spathes tubular, not very closely sheathing, hairy-hispidulous through- 
out, papyraceous, the lowest somewhat flattened, acutely two-edged, more or less 
spinulous lower down on the edges, prolonged at the summit into a very short 
limb; upper primary spathes more cylindraceous, unarmed or aculeolate on the back 
terminating in a lanceolate acute limb; partial inflorescences inserted near the 
mouth of their own spathes, small, panicled, diffusely hairy-scabrid in every part; 
the largest, the lowest, with 3-4 branchlets on each side; of these the uppermost 
undivided and the lower ones with 2-4 spikelets; these small, callous at their 
insertion, with very few not regularly bifarious remote flowers; secondary spathe® 
very narrowly tubular-infundibuliform, truncate, scariose and ciliate at the margin, 
acute or acuminate at one side; spathels hairy-scabrid, like the secondary spathes 
elongate, tubular, slightly infundibuliform, scarious, ciliolate and entire at the mouth, 
apiculate at one side; involucre attached laterally outside its own spathel at the 
base of the one above, distinctly pedicelliform or with a small regular cupular 
entire limb, this stalked by a narrow pedicel. Male flowers glabrous, narrowly oblong,. 
obsoletely trigonous, rather obtuse, 3-5-4 mm. long; the calyx tubular, cyathiform, 
membranous, finely striate, rounded at the base, with 3 short broad rather obtuse 
teeth; the corolla almost twice as long as the calyx, narrowed to the base, divided 
into 3 lanceolate finely striate segments; the stamens as long as the corolla when in the 
bud, their filaments subulate and inflected at the apex; anthers linear-sagittute; 
rudimentary ovary very small, conic, 38-toothed, papilliform. Female spadiz simply 
decompound, 40-50 cm. long; primary and secondary spathes and spathels as in the 
male spadix; partial inflorescences few, very small, the largest, the lowest 5-8 em 
long, arched subscorpioid, inserted at the mouth of their own spathes with a distinct 
axillary callus; the main axis slender, sinuous, with 5-6 ,spikelets at most on each 
side; spikelets small, slender, arched, recurved, their axis zigzag-sinuous, the largest, 
the lowest, 1:5-2 cm. long with 5-6 remote flowers on each side; the two series 
slightly pointing upwards (not exactly in one plane); involucrophorum more or less 
distinctly pedicellate, laterally attached outside its own spathel at the base of the one 
above with a relatively conspicuous callus at its axilla next to the axis: involucre 
cupular, more or less emarginate on one side; areola of the neuter flower depressedly 
[unate, more or less sharply bordered, with a punctiform scar in the centre. Neuter 
flowers long-persistent, very much like the male ones, but thinner, more acute at the 
summit and more narrowed at the base. Female flowers ovate-conic with a broad 
base, small 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad; the calyx conic, suburceolate, green, síriate, 
very shortly 3-toothed; the corolla as long as the calyx, divided down almost to the 
base into 3 ovate-lanceolate rather acute segments; the staminal urceolum deeply divided 
nto 6 elongate triangular filaments; anthers sagittate, hardly shorter than the lobes 
of the corolla; ovary oblong; style short subtrigonous, stigmata pale and of a waxy 
appearance when dry, trigonous, subulate, strongly papillose inside, reflexed amongst 
