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5-6 cm. long); those along the margins on the ventral side are more slender but 
not longer; those at the base of the petiole on its margins are subulately triangular 
and rather longer than any of the others. Ocrea very short, almost reduced to a 
simple semi-annular margin, but very densely covered with minute blackish bristles ; 
the same kind of covering extends along the ventral suture of the sheath 
where often the bristles are arranged in crowded transverse series. ^ Leaves 
large, 1:5-2'4 m. long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a long and strongly 
clawed cirrus, the latter at times rudimentary or wholly -wanting in the leaves 
of the lower part of the stem; petiole glabrous and almost polished, more or 
less elongate, robust, 30-60 cm. long, 14-18 mm, broad at the base, where 
broadly grooved on the upper surface; above the base it becomes biconvex and 
somewhat flattened; margins obtuse, armed at the base with long, rigid, robust, 
irregular spines which higher up are reduced to short, distant, straight teeth; the upper 
surface of the petiole is snooth; the under surface is armed along the centre at the 
base with a line of straight, long, deflexed spines, which higher up are gradually reduced 
in size and, at least in the rachis, lare transformed into solitary claws; rachis on the 
upper surface smooth all over, at first convex and more or less grooved on both 
sides, where are inserted the Jeaflets, and with an acute salient angle and flat side 
faces from about the middle upwards; the lower surface is armed with at first 
solitary, then 3-nate and higher up, especially on the cirrus, 5-nate and half- 
whorled, robust, black-tipped claws. Leaflets numerous, more or less inequidistant but 
never distinctly grouped, sometimes in long parts of the rachis almost equidistant and 
3-4 cm. apart; oftener however they are more or less geminate; towards the upper 
end the vacant spaces are longer than elsewhere; the leaflets rather firmly papyraceous, 
green, slightly paler beneath than above, elongate-lanceolate or ensiform, broadest 
below the middle and thence somewhat tapering towards a uot very acute base and 
gradually acuminate to a very finely subulate, long and filamentous tip; tbe upper 
surface is not distinctly 3-costulate having the mid-costa very sharp and bristly 
spinuluus towards the apex, and one secondary nerve, on each side of it, slightly 
stronger than the others and usually bristly from the middle upwards or occasionally 
almost smooth; on the lower surface the mid-costa is rather closely bristly, and the 
side nerves are bare, or one on each side of the mid-costa is occasionally bristly ; 
transverse veinlets numerous, approximate, sinuous, rather sharp on both surfaces ; 
margins minutely and not very appressedly spinulous; the largest leaflets are 30-40 
em. long, 22-28 mm. broad; those of the upper part are gradually smaller, the 
ultimate ones are rudimentary. Male spadiz suprade compound, forming a large ovate, 
cupressiform, rather diffuse panicle, 35-70 cm. long, (longer in cultivated specimens) 
borne on a long (50-80 cm.), strongiy flattened, very acutely two-edged, unarmed; 
10-13 mm. broad, peduncular part ; primary spathes papyraceous, exsuccous, cinnamon- 
brown on both surfaces, but slightly darker internally, glabrous, and very finely 
striate ; externally furfuraceous when young, then glabrous, all completely 
unarmed ; outer spathe very elongate (31°5 cm. in one specimen) acutely two-keeled 
obliquely truncate at the upper end, and with two unequal acuminate 
points, corresponding to each of the two keels and separated by a deep 
concave sinus; inner spathes gradually protruding one beyond the other, 
the second and third rounded at the apex or with two unequal points, the others 
acuminate, shorter and broader, all deciduous during the anthesis; the flowering 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp., Catcurra, Vor. XII. 
