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Spadices spuriously axillary; before tbe anthesis they are elongate-cylindraceous, 
0:8—1:2 m. in length, as thick as a finger or a little more; after flowering, nodding 
or recurved ; primary spathes at first cylindraceous, when open almost flat or 
slightly concave, imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, 20—40 em. long, 2-5 mm. in width in 
their broadest part (about the middle), thence almost equally tapering towards both 
ends, acute or obtuse or shortly bidentate at the upper end, very thickly 
coriaceous or almost woody, of a cinnamon colour when dry, very thinly and 
fugaciously rusty-fufuraceous on both surfaces, but after their expansion glabrous 
and glossy inside; the outermost somewhat broader but not longer than the others, 
more or less distinctly two-keeled on the back, and armed, on the keels only, with 
short, straight, _ascendent, horizontal or, at times, slightly deflexed, solitary, or 
palmate-digitate spines; inner spathes unarmed, gradually protruding beyond the one 
immediately below ; the spathes in the male spadix apparently persist during the 
anthesis; in the female spadix the outermost persist also during fruit-bearing ; the 
peduncular part of the spadix is always elongate and varies from 20 to 45 cm. in 
length, slender, slightly flattened, almost smooth, but at times strongly armed on 
the edges, especially near the insertion of the outer spathe, with straight, often 
fascicled, robust and divergent spines, Male spadig very slender, ultradecompound 
with 5-7 rather distant (8-10 em. apart) rather dense, cupressiform partial inflor- 
escences; the main axis is relatively slender, the internodes are 8-10 cm. long, 
irregularly cylindraceous with depressions and swellings produced by the pressure 
of the flowers during prefloration ; partial inflorescences erect, 8—15 cm. long (shorter 
towards tle end), all a good deal shorter than their respective spathes, very 
fugaciously rusty-furfuraceous in every part, each divided into 8-10 alternate, 
slender, slightly sinuous branches, which carry 5-6 spikelets on each side; secondary 
and tertiary spathes obliquely truncate and glabrous at the mouth, prolonged at 
one side into a triangular, very acute point; spikelets slender, the lower ones of 
each branchlet the largest, 15-20 mm. long, and bearing about 6-10 almost uni- 
laterally set flowers; upper spikelets gradually shorter and with fewer flowers; 
spathels asymmetrically and shortly infundibuliform, extended at one side into a 
broadly triangular point; involucre enclosed within its spathel, semi-cupular, or of the 
Shape of a swallow’s nest, deeply excavate and bidentate on the posticous side; the 
axis of the spikelets are filiform, acutely trigonous, strongly indented, and bear 
at the insertion of each flower the impression of its form. Male lowers linear, 
oblong, bluntish, about 5 mm. long, somewhat asymmetrical from mutual pressure, 
erect and appressed against the axys; the calix cyathiform-obconical, with three acute 
triangular teeth; the corolla two and-a-half or three times as long as the calyx, 
divided down ths of its length into three narrow externally striate segments; 
filaments of the stamens subulate, individually distinct, but united to the corolla in 
their lower part, inflected at the apex; anthers versatile, elongate, the cells deeply 
parted in their lower part; the rudiment of the ovary very small, divided into three 
short, clavate papillae, not even reaching to the free portion of the filaments. 
Femaie spadiz decompound, with the axial parts much more robust and thicker than 
in the male spadix and of a quite different appearance ; partial inflorescences 5-7, 
glabrous or fugaciously scaly-furfuraceous, a good deal shorter than their respective 
spathes ; their axes and those of the spikelets are acutely trigonous, and bear 4-6 
spikelets on each side; the spikelets are unilateral and, together with their flowers, 
Axn. Roy. Bor. Garn., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
