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along the centre, with small solitary claws, which become 3-nate higher up and 
occasionally  5-nate on the sub-cirriform upper end; on the upper surface the rachis 
is smooth all over: in its lower portion it is convex, and has broadly grooved 
side-faces wherein the leaflets are inserted, while higher up comes an acute, salient angle 
and flat or slightly concave side-faces; leaflets very numerous, equidistant, 2°5-3 cm. 
apart, rather firmly papyraceous, green and almost glossy above, paler beneath, 
ensiform or very narrowly lanceolate, usually broadest below their middle, and thence 
tapering towards a rather acute base, gradually acuminate above to a finely subulate 
and, at the apex, bristly tip; on the upper surface the mid-costa is very slender 
but very sharp, and has a few bristles only towards the apex. The secondary nerves 
are smooth and very slender, so that the upper surface is not or only very 
indistinctly 3-vostulate; on the under surface the mid-costa is very minutely and 
very closely ciliate, and one slender nerve on each side of it is also occasionally 
and sparingly  bristly-spinulous; transverse veinlets very numerous, continuous, and 
very sharp ou both surfaces; margins smooth near their base, spreadingly ciliated 
from the middle upwards, the lower margin on the upper surface very minutely 
pitted when seen under a lens; the intermediate leaflets are 25-30 cm. long, and 
17-20 mm. broad. Male spadices 40-55 cm. long, including a pedicellar part 20 
em. in length, slender, flattened, softly furfuraceous, slightly broadening in the 
upper part, armed on the margins with slender spines, which are deflexed in 
prefloration, but afterwards are ascendent; primary spathes concave, narrowly elliptical- 
cymbiform, acuminate, gradually tapering towards the base, firmly papyraceous, of an 
hazel-nut-brown colour, glabrous and finely striate internally, furfuraceous externally 
and more or less furnished on the back with light-coloured, flabby, transversely 
seriate bristles; the outermost spathe is longer and narrower than the inner, 
and each of the latter gradually protrudes beyond that immediately below it; the 
flowering panicle when not quite free from the spathes is slender and strict, 
later the partial inflorescences are spreading, but they are all scantily flowered; 
partial inflorescences about 6 in ‘number, the lower are the largest, 10-12 em. long 
and are divided into 3-4 branchlets, which carry only 5-6 spikelets in all; 
secondary spathes smail, bracteiform, prolonged at one side into a broad triangular 
membranous point; the lowest spikelets are about i5 mm. long, have 5-7 flowers 
in all, and are densely covered with a soft cottony-furfuraceous, rusty scurf; their 
axes are thickish, zig-zag sinuous; spathels very shortly, widely and asymmetrically 
infundibular, produced at one side to a broad, triangular, bluntish point; involucre 
eupular, rather deep, entire, or obsoletely posticously bidentate, on a level with the 
involuerophorum or slightly shorter. Male flowers oblong, comparatively large, 7-8 
mm. long, 2:5-3 mm. in diameter, obsoletely trigonous, bluntish, often slightly curved ; 
the calyx campanulate, shortly and broadly 3-toothed, faintly striately-veined ; 
the corolla two and a half times as long as the calyx, smooth externally. Female 
spadia more or less persistently rusty-furfuraceous, erect, rigid, forming a rather 
elongate, narrowly ovoid, acuminate panicle, borne on a strongly flattened, acutely 
two-edged, quite unarmed, peduncular part; one specimen has this peduncular part 
35 cm. long, 1 cm. broad at the upper end, and somewhat less at the base, with a 
flowering panicle 75 em. long, carrying about 9-10 partial inflorescences ; of the latter 
the uppermost are, however, small and rudimentary; the main axis is straight, 
irregularly angular, not swollen at the nodes ; the lower partial inflorescences are 
Ann. Roy, Bor. Garp., Cancurra, Vor. XII. 
