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inflorescences short, the largest bearing 6—7 alternate spikelets on each 
side; secondary spathes very unarmed or nearly so, narrowly tubular, 
infundibuliform, obliquely truncate at the mouth, slightly produced at one 
side into a triangular acute point; spikelets inserted at the mouth of their 
respective spathes, the lowest and largest about 2 cm long, flattened and 
pectinate with 8—10 quite bifarious nearly horizontal flowers on each 
side, upper spikelets slightly smaller; spathels subbracteiform glabrous pro- 
duced at one side into a triangular finely acuminate deflexed point; invo- 
lucrum cupular; male flowers narrow 4 mm long; calyx 3-lobed striateley 
veined; corolla twice as long as the calyx, oblong, very acute almost shiny. 
Female spadix: partial inflorescences bearing 2—3 spikelets only on each 
side; secondary spathes as in the male spadix; spikelets very spreading 
inserted just at the mouth of their respective spathes with a distinct axil- 
lary callus; the lowest and largest 3 cm long and bearing 5—6 flowers 
on each side; their axis zigzag sinuous; spathels infundibuliform truncate; 
involucrophorum short; involucre shallowly cupular; areola of the neuter 
flower lunate not sharply defined; fruiting perianth quite explanate. Fruit 
ovoid-elliptical very suddenly minutely beaked, 15—17 mm including the 
about 2 mm long beak, 44—12 mm broad; seales in about 20 vertical 
series, slightly broader than long very narrowly grooved along the centre, 
blunt, light straw yellow bordered by a narrow dark-purple band. Seed 
Droid rounded at both ends, slightly concave on the chalazal side, with 
even chestnut brown dull surface, Albumen equable, embryo basal. 
C. sepikensis Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia magna, in cirrhum 
longum, robustum, unguibus semiverticillatim congestis, apice nigris, spatiis 
subaequalibus sese sequentibus armatum excurrentia. Rhachis subtus eodem 
modo quam cirrhus armata, unquibus inferne simplicioribus. Foliola nume- 
rosissima, lineari-lanceolata, in acumen angustissimum attenuata, 3-costulata, 
°ostulis utrinque sparse + spinulosis, nervis transversalibus tenuissimis, 
marginibus minute adpresse spinulosis. Spadix © apice flagello carens, 
magnus, divaricato-paniculatus, inflorescentiis partialibus pluribus, infra 
