O, Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens Il. 455 
appendix sheathed by some reduced spathes; primary spathes thickly 
coriaceous, unarmed or nearly so, glabrous, very finely striolate longitudi- 
nally, tubular, very loosely sheathing or slightly inflated, suddenly narro- 
wing in their lower part, the mouth obliquely truncate, glabrous and very 
briefly produced at one side into a triangular point; partial inflorescences 
ascendent and appressed to the main axis, inserted not far inside the 
mouth of their respective spathes; the few seen by me, belonging to the 
upper part of the spadix, 43—148 cm long, 8—10 cm broad, ovate in 
outline, but flattened, or having on each side of the rachis several (8—10) 
rather approximate spikelets all inserted on the same plane; secondary 
spathes short infundibuliform, their mouths loose and wide, exactly trun- 
cate, glabrous and very briefly apiculate, at one side fruit bearing; spikelets 
slighily arched horizontal or recurved, 4—5 cm long; inserted somewhat 
above the mouth of their respective spathes; their axis slender with 12—15 
flowers on each side; spathules short infundibuliform glabrous truncate and 
apiculate at one side; involucrophorum with a very small orbicular limb, 
laterally attached outside its own spathula; involucre discoid subtuberculi- 
form; areola of the neuter flower very small depressed callous. Female 
flowers very small. Fruiting perianth very briefly pedicelliform or 
with a short callous base and with suddenly spreading divisions of the 
calyx and corolla. Fruit small, globose 8 mm in diam., beaked the beak 
narrow abruptly rising on the rounded or slightly depressed vertex, scales 
in 48 Series, uniformely light coloured, shiny, narrowly grooved along the 
middle and depressed in their anticous part and more or less gibbous 
posticously, the apices bluntish. Seed globular coarsely and irregular not 
deeply grooved; albumen homogeneous; chalazal fovea small pit-like; 
embryo basal. 
Nordöstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Peilungsberg (Leper- 
MANN n. 6929), ; 
It is evidently related to C. microcarpus Bece., a philippine species, but distinct 
this as from the other species of its group by its leaves having lanceolate, sub- 
equidistant pluricostulate, considerably apart leaflets quite spineless and hairless on 
oth surfaces and with the margins also smooth; by the spadix not flagelliferous, shorter 
than the leaves, caudiculate at apex, and having flattened rather dense ovate partial 
inflorescences, inserted not far from the mouth of the spathes; by the primary spathes 
tubular, loosely sheathing or subinflated; by the spikelets approximate, spreading or 
recurved having short loose truncate secondary spathes, and being attached to the base 
of the spathe above their own; by the involucrophorum attached laterally outside the 
mouth of their respective spathules; by the fruiting perianth very slightly pedicelliform ; 
by the small pisiform beaked fruit with concolour scales, and by the globular seed with 
uneven surface and uniform albumen. 
C. brevifolius Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia caudicem tenuem vagi- 
nantia, sessilia; vaginae spinis inaequilongis armatissimae, flagello tenui 
armato munitae, apice laceratae. Foliorum rhachis tenuis, subtus armata, 
