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are narrowly lanceolate, rather obtuse, or else very slightly split or bidentate 
at the apex, covered externally with a very thin adherent rusty-brown indumetum, 
glabrous and finely striate inside; the outermost spathe is two-keeled at its base 
only, and is sparingly prickly on the keels, the others are unarmed. Male spadiz 
more elongate than the female and narrow before flowering; its outermost spathe 
is 20-25 cm. long and 25-3 cm. broad; the flowering panicle is 50 cm. long 
(in one specimen), is narrow, strict and has 6-7 partial inflorescences, covered . 
in every part with an abundant rusty-furfuraceous scurf; partial inflorescenes strict, 
cupressiform, 10-12 cm. long, divided into many branchlets, each 4-5 em. long 
and carrying subdistichously 4-6 spikelets on each side; the spikelets are small 
and very few-flowered, 1 cm. long, and with 4-5 unilaterally-set flowers at 
most; the axis of the spikelets angular and with a notch at the insertion of each 
flower; spathels very small, bracteiform, ciliate ; involucre indistinct, Male flowers 
linear-oblong, obtuse, obsoletely trigonous and often asymmetric from mutual pressure ; 
the calyx cupular-obconical with ? rather elongate and subulate teeth, finely striately 
veined; the corolla two and-a-half times as long as the calyx, also finely striately 
veined. Female spadix shorter than the mele, and covered in every part with an 
adherent thin ferruginous indumentum; the flowering panicle 25-30 cm. long with 4-5 
partial infloresences, the lowest being the largest; the latter is 8-10 em. long, and hag 
6-7 spikelets, is erect during the anthesis, but spreading in the fruiting stage, at which 
time it has a distinct axillary callus; the other partial inflorescences are shorter, and 
have fewer spikelets; the terminal is reduced to a single few-flowered spikelet; 
the main axis of the spadix is rigid, and has slender, obsoletely angular inter- 
nodes; secondary spathes very small, scale-like ; spikelets 4-6 cm. long, having 8-12 
flowers in all, erect when bearing flowers, horizontal, almost deflexed in the fruiting 
stage and having a very distinct swollen callus at their axilla, their axis rather 
thick and acutely angular; spathels annular, very short, extended at one side into a 
triangular, acute or acuminate point; involucrophorum pedicelliform, 3-5 mm. long, 
rather thick, trigonous, and slightly clavate, at first erect, horizontal or even 
slightly deflexed and with a distinct and swollen callus at its axilla when bearing 
fruit, slightly produced at one side into a very short and broad limb; involucre 
thick, shortly obconic, raised about 2 mm. above the involucrophorum, terminated 
by a flat surface, bordered by a very narrow membraneous 3-denticulate rim; 
areola of the neuter flower lateral, flattish, with a small basilar punctiform swollen 
scar. Female flowers subpyramidate-trigonous and acute before the anthesis, 7-8 mm. 
long; the calyx cupular, about as long as the tubular part of the corolla, with 3 
very broad acute teeth, and finely striately veined; the corolla is two and-a-half 
times as long as the calyx, its segments elongate-triangular, acute, slightly longer 
than the stigmas; the latter are trigonous-subulate. Neuter flowers very similar to 
the male, but more slender. Fruiting pertanth explanate, but the calyx has a short 
callous base. Fruit globose-ovoid, slightly conica] in its upper part or at times ovoid. 
ellipsoidal, crowned by the small recurved sessile stigmas, 2 cm. in diam; scales 
incrusted with an abundant, blood-red, resinous secretion, otherwise of a uniform 
straw-yellow colour, convex, narrowly and deeply grooved along the centre, regularly 
rhomboidal, quite blunt at the apex, 5 mm, broad. Seed oblong, 12-13 mm, long, 
8 mm. thick, 11 mm. broad, somewhat laterally flattened (non-depressed), deeply pitted ; 
chalazal fovea fissuriform and almost central; embryo basal. - 
