EremospcUha.'] cxlvii. palm.e (wrigiit). 113 



more slender spiny cilia on the margins than in E. macrocaiya. Midrib 

 rather prominent, secondary nerves G on each side. Spadix 18-20 

 in. long, on a peduncle 1 foot long ; branches 20-30, patent, 2 lin. 

 thick ; bracts transversely oblong, acuminate. Flowers in pairs, sessile. 

 Calyx campanulate, o-toothed, 2 lin. long, rigid, obscurely striate. 

 Corolla 5 lin. long, much inflated, thick, o -toothed. Stamens ; fila- 

 ments connate for the greater part of their length into a tube and 

 adnate to the corolla ; anthers erect, cordate, inserted at the base on 

 the dorsal side, introrse. Ovary ovoid -globose, o-celled ; style short ; 

 stigmas 3, Ungulate, ciliate. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 in. long, about lin. 

 diam., 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, with 18 rows of rhomboid scales. Seed 

 slightly compressed, 9 lin. long, 5 lin. wide, 3-4 lin. thick, brown ; 

 chalaza dorsal, much thickened ; hilum linear ; embryo ventral, about 

 half-way up the albumen. — Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus 

 {Ereniospatha) cuspidatus, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 

 434, t. 41, fig. A. 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon: at the mouth of the River Gaboon, Mann, 1043 ! 



o. E. macrocarpa, Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 244. Stem 30-50 

 ft. long, scarcely 1 in. thick. Leaves about 9 ft. long ; sheath tubular, 

 about 1 ft. long, produced at the apex into an obliquely truncate ochrea 

 1 in. long, clothed with brownish evanescent scurf ; rhachis 4-5 lin. 

 thick at the base, bearing uncinate spines, produced into a cirrhus 

 bearing 7-11 pairs of decurved subulate-triquetrous spines, but other- 

 wise unarmed ; leaflets about 23 on each side, the upper rather wider 

 apart than the lower, long lanceolate, acute, slightly dentate, papery, 

 rigid, glabrous, shining, with brown spiny cilia 1-2 lin. long on the 

 margins, the upper 14 in. by 12-13 hn., the lower gradually decreasing 

 in size, midrib rather prominent, secondary nerves 6 on each side. 

 Spadix lJ-2 ft. long, glabrous, simply and alternately distichously 

 branched ; peduncle 6-8 in. long, nearly G lin. thick, conceive on the 

 face, convex on the back ; branches 4-5 in. long, 1 lin. thick at the 

 base ; bracts semi-amplexicaul, ovate, acuminate, 3 lin. long, marcescent. 

 Flowers as in E. cuspidata. Fruit 1^ in. long, compressed cylindrical, 

 very shortly attenuate at the base, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, with 24 rows 

 of rhomboid rather flat scales, 2 lin. wide. Seed compressed, 9-12 lin. 

 long, 9 lin. wide, 4-5 lin. thick, brown ; chalaza incrassate and forming 

 a mammilla on the dorsal side ; embryo ventral, a little above the hilum. 

 — Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 111. Calamus (Eremospatha) macro- 

 carpus, Mann & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 435, t. 41, fig. B, 

 and t. 43, fig. B. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bagru River, Mann, I ! Niger Territory : 

 Old Calabar River, Mann, 2330! 



9. ANCISTROPHYLLUM, Mann et Wendl. ; Benth. 

 et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 937. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate, shortly 3-lobed. 

 Corolla-tube short ; lobes 3, linear-oblong, acute, valvate. Stamens ; 



