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Female spadiz, when with the spathes, very similar to the male one, but usually 
smaller, 50-60 cm. long; the flowering panicle alone 20-27 cm. in length, simply 
decompound, with 5-6 main branches or partial inflorescences; when in flower on the 
whole cupressiform; when in fruit forming a dense thyrsoid-ovoid panicle, the 
branches at first furfuraceous, later glabrescent, shortly and stoutly stalked, the upper- 
most alone provided with a rather long peduncular part; all bearing many erecto-patent 
spikelets, which have a rigid zigzag sinuous axis; the lower spikelets of each branch, 
the largest, 7-8 cm. long, with 6-7 alternately distichous flowers on each side, the 
upper ones. gradually shorter and with fewer flowers; the internodes of the main axis 
obsoletely angular, 3-4 cm. long, not or very slightly swollen at their base; the 
internodes of the spikelets between two flowers are 4-5 mm, long, cylindraceous, 
slightly swollen at their base; spathels bracteiform with a very short scarious and at 
one side apiculate limb; involucropherum pedicelliform, 2-3 mm. long, cylindraceous 
or obsoletely angular, slightly callous at its axis, broadened at the apex irto a 
short oblique limb; involucre cupular, often somewhat obliquely truncate, obsoletely 3- 
denticulate, slightly raised above the involucrophorum, strongly striately veined outside; 
areola of the neuter flower rather small with a slightly tumescent semicircle above 
the scar. Female flowers ovate, 5-5°5 mm. long; the calyx campanulate, truncate, very 
distinctly and strongly veined; the corolla twice as long as the calyx, divided from a 
little above the base into 3 narrow, lanceolate, acuminate segments which remain erect and 
only slightly open divaricate during the anthesis; staminal urceolum crowned by 6 short 
suddenly apiculate teeth; anthers effete, sagittate, a good deal shorter than the lobes of 
the corolla; ovary ovate-globular; style stout, short; stigmata subulate, papillose-lamellose 
on the inner side, spreading horizontally amongst the segments of the corolla during the 
anthesis. Fruiting perianth persistent, not quite explanate under the fruit, the calyx 
being slightly convex and callous at the base. Fruit spherical, very shortly umbo. 
nate-mucronulate, 15-18 mm. in diameter; scales in 18 longitudinal series, deeply and 
narrowly channelled throughout along their centre line, the fruit appearing therefore very 
distinctly marked by 18 longitudinal narrow furrows; the scales are straw-yellowish 
or yellowish-brown, with a very narrow and inconspicuous darker intra-marginal line 
and a lighter erosely-toothed margin, rhomboid, as long as broad, with an obtuse 
not produced and not spotted apex. Seed erect, sub-spherical, very slightly flattened, 
not ventricose on the raphal side, 13 mm. in diameter, 10 mm. thick, with a granular 
and minutely pitted surface, the small pits corresponding to narrow channels which 
are filled with a dark sub-resinous stuff and penetrate two-thirds of the albumen, 
rendering the otherwise horny albumen ruminate; embryo basal near the scar of 
the insertion of the seed. 
Hasirat.— North-East India and Upper Burma, Sikkim Himalaya (Prain in Herb. 
Beccari); Chittagong Hills (Gamble in Herb. Beccari; Hooker f. & Thomson in Herb. 
Kew.; Burkill No. 21023 in Herb, Calcutta.) ; Dulka Jahr in the Terai (T. Anderson, 
Gamble in Herb. Beccari); Western Duars at Chekopara and at Buxa Reserve (Gamble); 
Jalpaiguri aud Kurseong (Burkill in Herb. Calevtta.). In Cachar at Shapore (Keenan 
in Herb, Kew); Sylhet (Hooker f. Y Thomson in Herb. Kew. and C. B. Clarke 
in Herb. Beccari); Assam (Griffith in Herb. Kew.); Khasia Hills (Hooker f. & 
Thomson in Herb. Kew.). 
According to Anderson (l. c.) the fruit is mature in December in the Dulka 
Jahr, whence the canes are exported to the districts of Dinajpur and Maldah. 
Axx. Roy. Bor, GARD., Carcutra, Vor. XII, 
