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broad bases ; mid-costa rather strong and prominent above, slender beneath, 

 and furnished (in proximity to the base) with a few narrow and long 

 ramentaceous scales ; on each side of the mid-costa is a very slender, 

 secondary nerve, slightly prominent on the under surface, and marked by a 

 faint furrow above ; tertiary nerves numerous and distinct, giving a neatly 

 striate appearance to both surfaces ; the margins are very sharp (not 

 furnished with a marginal nerve) ; the lowest leaflets are very narrow, very 

 long-acuminate to a slender, subulate apex, 5-12 mm. broad, 35-40 cm. long, 

 and are slightly falciform ; the intermediate leaflets are 50-55 cm. long and 

 2'5 cm. wide, slightly narrow above and have also a tendency to be falcate at 

 the apex, which is acute, but subbifid with a small indentation on the lower 

 margin ; the upper leaflets are quite straight, gradually shorter and narrower 

 than the intermediate, and have the apex truncate and prsemorse ; the two 

 terminal are the smallest, 22-25 cm. long, 1-3-costulate, and quite free at 

 the base. Spadix scopiform, apparently twice branched, the primary 

 branches not numerous, divided (nearly from the base) into a few (3-4 in 

 the specimens at hand) secondary or flower-bearing branches. Complete 

 spathes apparently two (the outer not seen by me), the inner lanceolate- 

 subfalcate, acuminate, about 50 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, papyraceous, flattened, 

 and finely striate, the margins not winged. Flower-bearing brandies straight, 

 slender, but rigid, 40-50 cm. long, of the uniform thickness of 2-3 mm. 

 from base to apex, glabrous, finely wrinkled in the dry condition ; in their 

 lower part the branches apparently carry male flowers only, but in the 

 remainder, up to the apex, the flowers are in glomerules of 3, that in 

 the middle being a female, and the two side ones male ; the glomerules 

 rest on superficial pulvinuli ; they are in opposite pairs, and the pairs are 

 decussate, and between the pairs the branches are flattened in alternate 

 directions ; the pulvinuli are surrounded by very narrow semiannular bracts. 

 Male flowers 12-15 mm. long, sessile, asymmetrical ; the calyx very small, 

 trigonous, with 3 acute teeth ; the corolla several times longer than the 

 calyx ; the petals narrowly lanceolate, almost flat, very long-acuminate- 

 subulate, the apices wavy-falcate; stamens 6-8, filaments very short and 

 thick ; anthers erect, one-third shorter than the petals, linear-lanceolate 

 sinuose-subulate-aristate ; rudimentary ovary very short, terminated by 3 

 small horns. Female flowers ripen a little after the male, have a globular 

 base, and a trigonous, pyramidate-acuminate, and subfalcate point ; the 

 calyx is low, cupular-subtruncate, formed by broad sepals, having rounded, 

 hyaline, ciliate margins ; petals strongly imbricate, concave, orbicular in 

 their basal part, and suddenly contracted into a valvate, trigonous-acuminate, 

 thickish point, longer than the broadened basal part ; staminodes 6, very 

 small, tooth-like. Ovary broadly ovoid, suddenly shortened into 3 fleshy, 

 slender, obtuse stigmas. The young fruit has a glossy or polished surface, 

 is 5 mm. in diam. and 10 mm. long, including the perianth, and has a 



