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nd adpressedly spinulous, the lower margin on the upper surface often bordered 
by a shining stripe, similar stripes not occurring in other parts of the blade; 
the lower leaflets ensiform, somewhat narrowed towards the base and a good deal 
more towards the summit, where they are gradually acuminate into a laterally 
bristly-spinulous tip; the larger ones, those a little above the base, 40-50 cm. 
long and 3-4 cm. broad, those nearer the petiole narrower, the upper ones on the 
contrary a good deal larger, lanceolate, those of the summit shorter, 30-35 cm. 
long and up to 6 cm. broad. Male spadiz . . . . . Female spadix erect, short 
relatively to the size of the leaves, about one metre in length, terminating in a 
short tail-like, linear, usually 10 cm. long, aculeolate appendix, rather ‘strict 
subcupressiform, not very dense, with 4-5 erecto-patent partial inflorescences on each 
side; primary spathes tubular, closely sheathing, relatively short; lowest primary spathe 
12-15 cm. long, strongly flattened, acutely two-edged, totally unarmed, truncate at the 
mouth, where prolonged at one side into a triangular, dorsally acutely keeled point; 
the other primary spathes narrowly tubular-infundibuliform, truncate at the mouth 
where usually exsuccous and sometimes split and decayed, unarmed, prolonged 
at the summit into a triangular point; partial inflorescences not callous at their 
insertion, but attached to the axis inside the mouth of their own spathe, from 
which they arise erect or erectopatent; the lower ones, the largest, about 30 cm. 
long, with 5-7 spikelets on each side; the upper ones smaller with fewer spikelets; 
secondary  spathes  tubular-infundibuliform, about 2 cm. long, almost horizontally 
truncate, often exsuccous and decayed at the mouth, prolonged at one side into a 
short point, unarmed or with a few scattered spinules on the dorsal side of their 
upper part ; spikelets inserted without an axillary callus near but inside the mouth 
of their respective spathe, from which they come forth erect and rigid, but very 
distinctly and closely zig-zag-sinuous; the lower ones, the largest, 8-10 cm. Jong, with 
8-10 flowers on each side; spathels thinly coriaceous, cyathif infundibulif and 
subinflated or ventricose, narrowed a good deal to the base, horizontally truncate and 
entire at the mouth, where more or less apiculate at one side, involucrophorum 
laterally attached at the base of the spathel above its own and kept at a distance 
from that by a distinct axillary callus, rather shallowly cupular, truncate, slightly 
bidentate and not distinctly emarginate on the side next to the axis; involucre 
moulded on the  involucrophorum with a very short truncate limb,  obtusely 
bidentate on the side of the neuter flower; areola of the neuter flower lunate, 
Female flowers ovate. Fruiting perianth — pedicelliform, 3 mm. long, subglobose 
the hardencd calyx with the tube distinctly constricted at the throat, broadly 
3-toothed; segments of the corolla as long as but narrower than the lobes of the 
ealyx. Fruit regularly elliptic, shortly and very suddenly mucronate, 27-29 mm. 
long including the perianth, and 13-15 mm. broad; scales in 18 series, deeply and 
narrowly channelled along the middle, shining, yellow-straw-coloured with a narrow 
black intramarginal line, the margins very narrow, finely  erosely toothed ; the 
point short. Seed ovoid-oliveform, 17 mm. long and 11 mm, broad, sinuously 
grooved all round, with a narrow furrow along the raphal side and parting from 
- the punctiform chalazal fovea which is situated above the centre, 
Haprrat.—This was first found by Dr. T. Anderson in the hot and damp 
valleys of the Sikkim Himalaya at an elevation from 300 to 600 m. From 
