466 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. pachystachys 
from their lower third-part upwards gradually acuminate into an obtuse and at the 
summit spinulous point, their mid-costa solitary, acute and prominent above where 
sparingly bristly spinulous only near the summit, superficial and naked beneath; side- 
nerves slender and naked on both surfaces; margins very conspicuously ciliated 
with spreading, rather approximate and long bristly spinules; the lower one slightly 
thickened by a nerve; transverse veinlets crowded and fine. Male spadiz ..... 
Female spadiz not seen entire by me but seemingly rather large and robust; in 
one specimen a partial inflorescence is about 40 cm. long, rigid and robust, 
and terminates in a tail-like, rigid, almost unarmed appendix and bears 3-4 
spikelets on each side; primary spatnes ..... ; secondary spathes quite smooth, 
tubular-infundibuliform, thinly coriaceous, 4-5 cm. long, more or less sprinkled with 
fuscescent furfuraceous scales, narrowed a good deal towards the base, where flat 
on the inner and convex on the outer side and with sharp margins, truncate and 
entire at the mouth, prolonged at one side into a broad and short triangular point ; 
spikelets thick, subterete-vermiform, attached at the mouth of their respective spathe, 
not or indistinctly callous at their insertion, strongly arched, terminating in a very 
short rigid caudiculum, the lower ones, the largest, about 15 em, long with 7 
pairs of flowers on each side; spathels tubular-infundibuliform, somewhat narrowed 
towards the base, horizontally truncate and entire at the mouth, sprinkled with 
fuscescent furfuraceous scales, apiculate at one side, usually subtending two perfectly equal 
female flowers, or sometimes near the summit of the spikelet only one; involucro- 
phorum attached at the base of the spathel above its own, short, subcupular, 
transversely broader, two-keeled, bidentate and emarginate on the side next to the 
axis; involucres geminate, cupular, with a short and truncate limb, superficially 
bidentate, with the margin lunately excavate on the inner side where the 
involucres are in contact, but with a small cavity between the two. Female flowers 
narrowly ovate; the calyx slightly ventricose with 3 short triangular teeth; the 
segments of the corolla narrower than the lobes of the calyx and not quite as 
long. Fruiting pertanth very distinctly pedicelliform, cylindraceous, 3-3:5 mm. 
thick. Fruit when almost ripe subglobose-ovoid subturbinate or slightly tapering 
towards the base, suddenly contracted at the summit into a small conical acute 
mucro, 15-17 mm. long, including the mucro and the caudiculum, 10-19 mm. 
broad; scales shining, in 17-18 series, brownish or reddish-yellow, strongly convex 
and deeply channelled along the middle, with a short point and a marrow almost 
black intramarginal line; the margin erosely toothed. Seed globular, about 11 mm. 
Jong and 9 mm. thick, very similar to that of C. didymocarpus; albumen deeply 
 ruminate; embryo placed slightly above the base. 
Hasitat.—Celebes, at Wawo Kraeng on the high mountains in the southern part 
of the Island, Warburg in Herb. Berol. 
OBSERVATIONS.— This is a very near ally of C. didymocarpus, but its leaflets are 
a good deal smaller and more distinctly lanceolate; the: spadices more robust, more 
rigid and shorter; the spikelets more rigid and thicker and the fruit is conically 
beaked. The female flowers are almost constantly geminate at each spathel except 
near the summit of the spikelets where sometimes they are solitary ; when this is 
the case on the outer side of the involucre occurs a very distinct and sharply 
