Ancistrophi/Uum.] cxlvii. faliije (weight). 115 



globose ; style columnar, 2 lin. long, hollow inside ; stigmas 3, oblong, 

 short, 3-celled ; ovules solitary. Fruit-scales in about 18 rows, fimbriate, 

 straw-coloured, brown at the margins. — Calamus {Lnccosperma) Icpvis, 

 Ma,nn & Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 430, t. 38, fig. B. 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon : in shady virgin forests in the neitrhbourliofxl of tho 

 Gaboon 'Hiver, Mann, 1045! Munda, Sot/aux, 155 (ex Drude). 



2. A, opacwm, Drude in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. Ill Stem 25-30 ft. 

 long, soboliferous. Leaves patent, 6-8 ft. long, clothed with easily- 

 removable brownish tomentum ; sheath 1 ft. long, tubular, closely 

 investing the stem, armed towards the apex with scattered ancipitous 

 subulate spines 6 lin. long, yellow at the base and black at the apex, 

 produced at the apex into an ochrea 6-12 in. long, bearing spines like 

 those on the sheath ; rhachis convex on the back, flattened on the upper 

 side near the base, but acute towards the apex, produced at the apex 

 into a filiform cirrhus 2^-3 ft. long, bearing 4-6 reduced hook-like leaf- 

 lets, the lower alterna.te and 4-6 in. apart, the upper opposite, smaller 

 and nearer together, margins densely covered with recurved spines 

 throughout ; leaflets in opposite clusters, long- or elliptic-lanceolate, con- 

 tracted at the base, acuminate, marcescent, opaque, distantly spiny on 

 the margins, falcate, prominently 1-4- (rarely 5-) nerved, 8-12 in. by 

 1-4 in. Spadix ovate, 1 J-2 J ft. long ; primary branches patent, the 

 lower 1-1 J ft. long ; branchlets alternately distichous, turned to one 

 side, pendulous, 4—8 in. long, slender. Flowers geminate, alternately 

 distichous, shortly pedicellate, patent. Calyx campanulate, nearly 2 lin. 

 long, thickened at the base, rather rigid ; lobes broadly ovate, acute. 

 Corolla nearly 4 lin. long ; lobes elliptic -lanceolate, acute, rigid, concave, 

 striate on the back, valvate. Stamens 6, slightly shorter than the 

 corolla; filaments thick, tongue- shaped, acute, adnate to the base of the 

 corolla ; anthers elongate, bifid at the base, dorsifixed. Ovary globose ; 

 style columnar, 2 lin. long ; stigmas 3, oblong, fimbriate ; ovules soli- 

 tary, inserted a little above the base of the cell. Fruit baccate, 1-seeded, 

 globose, 6 lin. indiam.; scales in 12 rows, membranous, with an obscure 

 longitudinal furrow, straw-coloured, darker at the margins. Seed sub- 

 globose, deeply channelled, 5 lin. in diam., with a deep pit bearing a cen- 

 tral mammilla on the dorsal side ; raphe linear ; albumen hard ; embryo 

 ventral, horizontal, about half-way up the albumen. — Cummins in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1898, 80. Calamiiis (Laccospeoina) opacus, Marin ct Wendl. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 431, t. 41, fig. D, and t. 43, fig. D. Laccosperma 

 opacum^ J. Braun and K. Schum. in Hitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. 

 (1889), 148. 



TTpiper Guinea. Gold Coast: Ashaiiti ; Assin-Yiin-Kumnssi, Cummins, 229! 

 Cameroons : Barombi, Preuss, 307 (ex Dmde). Fernando Po : in shady woods from 

 the shore to 1000 ft., Mann, 97 I 



3. A. secuxudiflorum, Wenrll. in Kerchove, Palm. 230. A cipspi- 

 tose, widely climbing palm. Stem 50-60 ft. long, \\ in. in diam., un- 

 armed. Leaves 12-14 ft. long, 1-1 J ft. apart, pale green; sheath 

 1-1^ ft. long, cylindrical, with short scatt/ered conic-subulate spines 

 1-2 lin. long near the apex only, produced at the apex into a long 



