O. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II, 461 
straight rigid having some superposed gradually diminishing rather dense partial in- 
florescences and terminating into a small rudimentary cirrus; by the primary spathes 
tubular closely sheathing in their lower part, and lacerate above, densely beset with 
small prickelets having bulbous bases; by the partial inflorescences having rather appro- 
ximate subscorpioid gradually diminishing spikelets of a very scabrid appearence, their 
spathes and spathels being covered with minute tubercled spinulus; by the female 
flowers in two subassurgent series and by the briefly pedicelliform perianth. 
C. fuseus Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia magna, apice cirrho ca- 
rentia; rhachis ut inflorescentia in omnibus partibus indumento furfuraceo 
fusco dense obtecta, subtus unguibus robustis armata.  Foliola in tribus 
2— disposita, anguste-lanceolata, summa latitudine infra mediam partem 
sita, superne sensim acuminata, apice plano, glabra, laevia vel marginibus 
sparse obscure spinulosis, 3-costulata, nervis secundariis satis conspicuis 
interpositis, terminalia bina aliis minora, basi libera. Spadix rhachide 
inter inflorescentias partiales superpositas vaginis carente. Inflorescentiae 
partiales adscendentes, compactae, appendice brevi, vaginata, inermi termi- 
natae, Spathae primariae breviter vaginantes, superne laceratae, secundariae 
infundibuliformes, ramulos latos apice caudiculatos suffulgentes, superne 
laciniatae. Spathulae spathis secundariis similes, fissae, prope basin invo- 
lucrophorum nascentes. Flores Q aproximati adscendentes; calyx striatus, 
corolla calycem longitudine aequans. 
Scandent and apparently of middling size. Leafsheaths . . . Leaves 
rather large, non cirriferous, rhachis completely covered all over with a 
very dark almost black thin adherent scurf, with acute salient angle and 
flat side faces above, armed beneath with robust light celoured, scattered 
or irregularly confluent robust claws; leaflets in the upper part 90 cm in 
length, of the only leaf seen by me closely approximate by their bases in 
Opposite groups of 2—4, with long vacant spaces of rhachis interposed; 
leaflets rigid papyraceous, shiny above, duller and slightly paler beneath, 
narrowly lanceolate, tapering from below the middle to a rather narrow 
base, gradually acuminate above to a subulate not bristly tip, 3-costulate, 
Mid-costa rather distinct, side costae very slender, few relatively sharp 
Secondary nerves smooth on both surfaces, margins also nearly smooth or 
With few very distant inconspicuous spinules; leaflets of the lowest group 
(in the mentioned portion of leaf) 35—40 cm long, 2,5—3 em broad, lar- 
gest point a little above their middle; upper leaflets speedy diminishing 
In length and breadth, the two terminal the smallest and quite free at the 
base, Male spadix... Female spadix apparently elongate, proba- 
bly flagelliferous at is apex with several partial inflorescences, separated 
by unsheathed or naked portions of the main axis; axis armed irregularly 
on its back with robust, broad, based solitary or more or less confluent 
claws; primary spathes with short basal sheathing part and lacerated, 
fibrous limb; partial inflorescences ascendent, rather, dense, flattened, the 
largest in the specimen 25—30 cm long, 10—12 cm broad, bearing 8—10 
