24 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA (C. pseudo-mollis. 
of solitary claws, smooth and with an acute salient angle above. Leaflets numerous 
very regularly equidistant, inserted at an angle of about 45°, 2-2°5 em. apart, thinly 
papyraceous, almost equally green on both surfaces,-lanceolate-ensiform or narrow and 
long, narrowing from below the middle to an acute base and ahove; the mesials 
(and probably also the lower ones not seen by me} very gradually long-acuminate 
to a bristly tip; in the uppermost leaflets the point is less acuminate and more 
bristly ; they are not very prominently 3-costulate, the side coste being slender and 
slightly stronger than two other secondary nerves on ouch side of the mid-costa, of 
which one runs very near to each margin; the 3 costae, but especially the laterals, 
are furnished with a few but very conspicuous and long spadiceous bristles; on the 
under surface the mid-costa alone bears a few scattered bristles smaller than those on 
the upper surface; the margins are ciliate with fine remote spreading cilia closer and 
longer near the apex; the intermediate leaflets are 35-38 cm. long, and 18-20 mm. 
broad; they. gradually decrease, especially in length, towards the upper end, the 
ultimate leaflets being reduced to 8 cm. in length and to a few millimeters in 
width; transverse veinlets much interrupted, translucent. Male spadix .... Female spadtz 
certainly elongate and probably cirriferous at its upper end and with several partial 
inflorescences; primary spathes cylindrical, elongate, very closely sheathing; one of the 
lowest is 8 mm. in diameter and is produced above to an elongate triangular point which 
is densely bristly-hispid on its back, otherwise is sprinkled with very small tuberculi- 
form prickles; upper spathes also cylindrical and sprinkled with small prickles but with 
the apex not hispid; the axial vart of the spadix is flagelliform and rather robust ; 
the spaces between two partial inflorescences are long, flattened-biconzex with rather 
acute edges in their basal part, smooth on the inner side, and powerfully armed 
externally with irregularly set or more or less approximate black claws; 
partial inflorescences 40-45 cm. long, rising erect from above the mouth of 
their respective spathes, strongly arched, and with 12-15 speedly decreasing 
spikelets on each side; secondary spathes tubular, elongate-infundibuliform , 
glabrous and unarmed, finely striately veined, obliquely truncate at the mouth, 
and apiculate at one side; spikelets inserted above the mouth of their respective 
spathes, spreading, flattened, of very unequal length, with numerous, very approxi- 
mate, flatly bifarious flowers; the lower spikelets are 7-9 em. long and have 25-3 
flowers on each side, the upper are speedily shorter and with fewer flowers 
and the uppermost are reduced to 10-15 mm, in length and with ‘i-~19 flowers 
only in all Spathels very approximate, briefly asymmetrically | infuudibuliform, 
slightly produced at one side into a triangular acute point ; involucrophorum 
cupular, bidentate and two-keeled on the side next to the axis; involucre deeply 
cupular, truncate, moulded on the involucrophorum and_ both slightly protruding 
above their own spathel; areola of the neuter flower conspicuous, niche-like and 
rather deep. Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform, 4 mm. long; the calyx split 
down to the base into 3 ovate, striately veined, acute lobes; the corolla a little 
ionger than the calyx, the segments acute. Fruit ovoid-elliptical, equally rounded 
at both ends but suddenly surmounted by a short subcylindrical mucro, 11 mm. 
jong inclusive of the mucro and perianth, 7 mm. broad; scales arranged in 18 
longitudinal series, of a dirty straw colour with very narrow lighter  scarious edges, 
at times, tinged with red-brown especially towards the bluntish point, convex and 
rather deeply grooved especially on the  posticous part. Seed irregular, slightly 
