110 cxLvii. PALM^ (weight). [Ccilamus. 



4. C. Cabrae, Be Wild. <i: Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. hot. 

 Belg. xxxviii. 151. A climbing shrub. Leaves long; rhachis gra.dually 

 attenuate upwards and prolonged into an unarmed or slightly armed 

 cirrhus, convex below, slightly rounded above, bearing 1-2 uncinate re- 

 curved black- tipped spines 2 lin. long between each pair of leaflets ; 

 leaflets nearly equidistant, rather more remote towards the apex, alter- 

 nate, 2|-5J in. long, 1J-3J in. wide, obovate-trapezoid, flat, much 

 narrowed and reduplicate at the base, chartaceous, longitudinally pli- 

 cate, midrib and secondary nerves slightly prominent, margins repando- 

 crenate in the upper part, sparingly spiny, shining on the upper side ; 

 " abortive leaflets opposite, the lowest 4|-7 in. distant from the upper- 

 most, 9-14 lin. long, 1-2J lin. broad, thick, confluent and thickened at 

 the base, slightly sigmoid, horny, subulate-triquetrous, two faces concave, 

 the upper gradually getting nearer and smaller." 



Isower Cruinea. Lower French Congo: forests of Mayombe, Cobra. 



I have seen no specimen of this species, of which the leaves alone are known. 



Imperfectly known species. 



5. C, Heudelotii, Becc. ex Drude in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. 112, 134. 

 Petiole short, flat and unarmed above, convex and with recurved spines 

 up to 7 lin. long beneath; sheath tubular, oblique at the mouth, sparingjy 

 armed with short stout spines ; rhachis in the upper part of the leaf acute 

 and unarmed above, convex and armed with black- tipped recurved spines 

 3 lin. long beneath ; leaflets about 6 lin. apart, linear-lanceolate, gradually 

 acuminate, with pungent upward pointing setse on both surfaces and 

 margins ; terminal cirrhus copiously armed with small recurved spines. 

 Ultimate branches of spadix 2 in. long ; bracteoles cupular, irregularly 

 lacerate at the mouth. Fruit ovate, shortly apiculate ; scales in about 

 15 rows, light brown, with a central furrow. — Calamus sp., Mann & 

 Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 430, in note. 



Upper Crulnea. Senegambia, Seudelot, 372 ! Gambia, Ingram ! 

 The material is, as stated by Mann and Wendland (I.e.), insufficient to allow a 

 satisfactory description of this species being drHA\ai up. ■ 



7. ONCOCALAMUS, Mann et Wendl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. iii. 936. 



Spadix lateral, monoecious, distichously branched ; branches long, 

 pendulous; spathes incomplete. Flowers 11-3 in alternate, distichous 

 bracteolate glomerules, the central one female, the rest male. Male 

 flower : Calyx campanulate, shortly 3-lobed. Corolla 3-partite almost 

 to the base. Stamens 6 ; filaments united into a minutely G-toothed 

 campanulate cup ; anthers cordate, dorsifixed. Rudiment of ovary 

 oblong ; style cylindrical ; stigmas minute. Female flower : Calyx and 

 corolla as in the male. Staminodes like the filaments of the male 

 flower. Ovary 3-celled ; style very short ; stigmas 3, tongue-shaped ; 

 ovule fixed slightly above the base of the cell. Fruit unknown. — 



