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segments; petiole 8 feet long and np to 2? inches broad in the 

 upper part, convex below, slightly concave above. Ligule up to 

 6 inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, with the margins involute. 

 Rhachis prolonged to close the apex of the limb and strongiy 

 arcnate, with acute sides and winged in the lower part. Limb about 

 as long as the petiole from the ligule to the apex of the central 

 segments. The apical central segments much shorter and narrower 

 than the outermost ones ; all are long-ensiform and deeply bipar- 

 tite ; segments of the intermediate part of the sides 4 feet long 

 and 1?- inches broad at the height of the sinuses; the primary- 

 sinuses are at about the lower third and the secondary ones towards 

 the middle, with a rather strong filament in each of them. 



Spadices shorter than the petioles of the leaves, thrice branched, 

 with rather dense partial inflorescences ; secondarj^ spathes tubu- 

 lar, narrowly infundibuliform, papyraceous-membranous, dry, 

 comparatively short, 21-3^ inches long, obliquely truncate at 

 the mouth, where they are prolonged into a short, broad, triangu- 

 lar, acute or acuminate point, finelj^- striate. Branches divided into 

 various simple, flower-bearing branchlets ; peduncular part short, 

 much longer than the respective spathe, provided with its own tubular 

 acutely bicarinate spathellule ; branchlets arising from the axil of 

 a short, broadly triangular, acute bract, flexuose, 4-6 inches long, 

 angular, -^^-^ inch thick at the base, gradually alternate-subulate 

 towards the apex, not thickened when fruiting but with the 

 pulvinuli bearing the fruits slightly tuberculiform. Flowers rela- 

 tively large, } inch long when in bud, oblong, rotundate above. 

 Calyx cupular or shortly tubular, slightly contracted at the throat, 

 with a broad and fleshy base, divided in the upper third into o 

 broadly triangular lobes. Corolla a little more than thrice as long- 

 as the calyx. Stamens inserted a little below the middle of the 

 corolla, relatively stout, subulate, very acute, acutely carinate along 

 the median line towards the apex; anthers sagittate, ovate, acute. 

 Ovary | inch long, slightly attenuate-conical towards the apex ; 

 stigma capitellate. 



Fruits Ycomprising the perianth |-li inch long and |-f inch 

 broad, obpyriform, with the apex regularly rotundate, alternate to 

 a rather acute and symmetrical base; fruiting perianth small,. 



