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groove on each side, in which the leaflets are inserted; higher up the rachis is 
bifaced on its upper surface with a very acute and smooth salient angle, while the under 
surface is armed with half-whorls of claws, which are united in the cirrus in groups 
of five to seven, or even to as many as nine, Leaflets rather numerous (40-50 in all) 
alternate or sub-opposite, rather remote (5-8 cm, apart), sub-equidistant, firmly papyraceous, 
glabrous, green and faintly glossy on both surfaces, narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate- 
ensiform, broadest about or below the middle, long-acuminate to a subulate tip and 
narrowing slightly and gradually towards the base; the mid-costa has on the upper 
surface a few short bristles near the apex only, the side nerves are slender and one of 
these on each side is also bristly; underneath the mid-costa alone carries a very few 
short bristles, or is at times quite bare; the transverse veinlets are excessively minute, 
numerous, short, and have an obsoletely-grained appearance on both surfaces when seen 
under a lens; margins minutely, appressedly and remotely spinulous but less remotely so 
near the apex; the intermediate (largest) leaflets are 30-45 em. long, 3-3°5 cm. broad ; 
the upper are smaller and more distant. Male and female spadices very similar before 
flowering, elongate (40-65 em. long), cylindraceous, about as thick as a man’s finger, 
nodding, and with a short, flattened, two-edged, smooth or prickly pedicellar part ; 
primary spathes imbricate: the outermost is the shortest, and each following spathe 
rises considerably above that immediately below it, all thickly coriaceous, almost 
woody, cinnamon-brown and glabrous internally, finely rusty-furfuraceous externally at 
least on the covered parts; the outermost, which is long persistent, when expanded is 
slightly concave, oblong-spathulate, 4-5 cm. wide in its broadest part or above the 
middle, and diminishes gradually towards the base, the upper end diminishing to a 
broadly triangular, but not very acute, and often bidentate point; the outer surface 
is acutely two-keeled but only near the base, and is powerfully armed with strong 
digitate or shortly seriate, flat, unequal, horizontal, light-coloured spines; the inner 
spathes, which are at first cylindraceous, are after the anthesis flat with revolute margins ; 
the inner spathes are thinner in texture, narrower and somewhat longer than the outer 
one and have a single line of digitate spines along the centre of the dorsum in their 
exposed upper portions, Male spadiz, when in flower, strict, very narrowly cupressiform 
with 6-7 partial inflorescences; the main axis is subterete, slender as pack-thread, slightly 
sinuous; secondary spathes inconspicuous, reduced to a very small and short 
infundibuliform limb, slightly produced at one side into a triangular point; partial 
inflorescences 6-7 cm. apart, 8-10 cm. long, borne on a short, slender, pedicellar 
part; they are erect, strict, cupressiform, divided into several slightly furfuraceous 
branchlets carrying each 7-8 small spikelets; of the latter the lowest—the largest—are 
about 2 cm. long with 7-8 not quite regularly set, almost unilateral flowers; the axis 
of the spikelets is very slender, filiform, slightly furfuraceous and superficially uotched 
at the insertion of the flowers; spathels bracteiform, scarious, very small, short, broad 
and obtuse; involucres reduced to inconspicuous scales round the base of the 
flowers. Male flowers narrow, linear, bluntish, obsoletely angular, slightly sinuous and 
asymmetric, 9-0 mm. long; the calyx very short, cysthiform, obconical, with 3 acute 
teeth; the corolla 4-5 times as long as the calyx. Female spadiz elongate with 
7-8 partial inflorescences that are 10-15. em. long (strict and cupressiform aurmg 
the anthesis), borne on a short peduncular part and carrying several spikelets, 
eovered in every part with a fine rusty-furfuraceous, not very adherent and partially 
fugacious scurf; the internodes of the main axis are 6-7 cm. long, thicker than in 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
