O. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II. 459 
flowers conically ovoid, acute, 3 mm long. Fruiting perianth not quite 
explanate, or very broadly obconical. Fruit (immature) small, ovoid-ellip- 
tical, equally rounded at both ends, very minutely beaked, 9 mm long, 
6 mm in diam. (probably somewhat larger when thoroughly mature); scales 
in 18 vertical series convex very narrowly grooved along the centre, polished 
of an almost uniform dirty straw-colour or slightly brownish on the mar- 
gins, the tip appressed bluntish not produced. Seed immature. 
Nordöstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser Wilhelmsland, Pionierlager, charak- 
teristische, häufige Palme im Sumpfwald am Sepikufer (Lepermann n. 7198). 
It belongs to group XIV of my monograph containing semi-aequatic species or 
growing in very damp or swampy forests near the sea-shores or on the banks of the 
rivers, It is no wonder therefore if C. sepikensis shows very marked affinities with 
C. Zollingerti, a species growing in Celebes, also a litoral plant, All the species of that 
group are characterized by the cirriferous leaves, the non flagelliferous leef-sheaths, the 
spadices shorter than the leaves forming large panicles non flagelliferous at apex, and 
y the spikelets inserted to the bottom of their respective spathes b 
linear-lanceolate leaflets, very sparingly bristly on 3 nerves on both surfaces; and by 
the very small ovoid-elliptical fruits equally rounded at both ends, very minutely beaked 
with scales small, convex straw-coloured finely grooved along the centre and blunt at 
the apex. 
C. seabrispathus Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia apice cirrho carentia. 
Rhachis angulo supra acuto, laevi, subtus unquibus inaequalibus mediocribus 
munita. Foliola numerosa, aequidistantia, lineari-lanceolata vel subensi- 
formia, sensim in acumen angustissimum attenuata, 3-costulata, fere laevia, 
costa media ut marginibus parcissime apicem versus spinulosa. Spadix Q 
erectus, rigidus, appendiculo brevi non flabelliformi terminatus, inflorescentiis 
partialibus nonnullis, satis densis, superne diminuentibus. Spathae primariae 
tubulares, anguste vaginantes, superne laceratae, ferrugineo-leprosae, spinulis 
brevibus, basi bulbosis dense obtectae. Inflorescentiae partiales infra spathas 
suffulgentes insertae, ramulis satis approximatis, subscorpioideis, spathis 
spathulisque spinulis densis basi bulbosis asperrimis. Ramuli superne longi- 
tudine diminuentes, ad os spathae suffulgentis inserti, floribus biseriatis, 
leviter assurgentibus; involucrophorum breve, spathula suffultum, cupulare. 
Perianthium fructiferum breviter pedicelliforme. Fructus obovoideus, robuste 
rostratus, squamis 21-seriatis, flavidis, margine et apice fulvis loricatus. 
i Apparently of middling size. Leaf-sheaths.. . Leaves non 
eirriferous [3 m long (Lepermans)] rachis (in their upper part) with a very 
sharp smooth salient angle above and flat side faces, rather powerfully 
armed beneath with inequal claws, with some of which small and scattered 
and other larger and more or less confluent especially along the centre; 
leaflets numerous, equidistant linear-lanceolate or sub-ensiform, tapering 
Somewhat towards the base and very gradually acuminate to a subulate 
very slender almost capillary apex, papyraceous, concolour and almost 
