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those near the end terminate in a  bluntish and conspicuously bristly apex; 
the two of the terminal pair very narrow, and quite free, at the base. 
Male spadix similar to the female and also extraordinarily long, ultca-decompound ; 
partia] inflorescences very long, 1:20 m. in one specimen, and with several 
remote spikelet-bearing branches; each secondary branch 15-30 cm. long, 
bearing 8-12 spikelets on each side; the spikelets are short, 15-20 mm. long 
and have 8-10 very approximate flatly bifarious flowers on each side. 
Female spadiz extraordinarily long (6 m. according to the collector) slender and flagelli 
form, simply decompound, armed on the back of the attenuated unsheathed axial 
portions, between the partial inflorescences, with strong, more or less aggregate or 
2-3-nate claws; primary spathes tubular, all entire, very narrow and long, and very 
closely sheathing: the lowest somewhat flattened and acutely two-edged, densely armed 
with unequal, straight spines; the upper spathes cylindrical, sprinkled with small 
claws, truncate, glabrous and acute on one side at the mouth; partial inflorescences 
very slender and long, (75 cm. long in one specimen) with 6-7 spikelets on each side 
and a filiform aculeolate appendix at their apex; secondary spathes concavo-convex 
and smooth in their lower part and very narrowly tubular, slightly enlarged, yet 
very closely sheathing above, about 4-5 cm. long, armed all round in their upper 
part with, very minute claws, entire, glabrous, obliquely truncate and acute at one 
side at the mouth; spikelets inserted just at, or a little above, the mouths of 
their respective spathes, horizontal or deflexed, slightly callous in the axilla, 
subterete, thickly filiform and rigid, slightly zig-zag sinous between the insertion 
of each flower, all of about one size, 10-12 cm. long, with 12-14 distichous flowers 
on each side; spathels infundibuliform, 3-4 mm. long, truncate, entire and glabrous at 
the mouth, very shortly apiculate at one side, obsoletely veined ; involucrophorum 
almost wholly exerted from its own spathel and laterally attached to the base of 
the one above, shallowly cupular; involucre moulded on the iavolucrophorum, and 
also very shallowly cupular, irregularly and obscurely lobulate at the margin; areola 
of the neuter flower callous, lunate. Female flowers small, 3:5mm. long. Fruiting 
perianth forming a rather distinct pedicel to the fruit; the calyx split down almost 
to the callous base into 3 ovate lobes; the corolla about as long as the calyx. Fruit 
ovoid-eliiptical, 11-12:5 mm. long, including the perianth and the beak, 7 mm. broad, 
almost equally and rather suddenly contracted at both ends, the base caudiculate, 
the apex conical beaked; scales arranged in 15 longitudinal series, very faintly 
grooved along the centre, light yellowish with a black edge; the margins very 
finely erosely toothed, the apex triangular, bluntish. Seed globular-ovoid, 7 mm, long, 
5°5 mm. broad, deeply and coarsely pitted: chalazal fovea orbicular in the centre of 
the raphal side. 
Hanrrar.— The Philippine Islands in Luzon, H. M. Curran at about £00 m. 
elevation on the Adlamay Hills, Province of Albay, (No. 10630, Herb. Manila); 
Kabibihan, Prov. Tayabas, Foxworthy and M. Ramos, (No. 13128, Herb. Manila); in 
the Island of Polillo, McGregor (male specimen No. 1908, Herb. Manila), 
Apparently belonging to C. filispadic is a sterile specimen collected by Merrill in 
Palawan No. 7251. “This apparently belongs to a not yet fertile plant; one of the 
flagella is above 6 m. in length, and the leaf-sheaths are armed with spines up to 
5 em. long and some at the mouth as much as 10 cm, 
