462 C. Lauterbach, Beiträge zur Flora von Papuasien. X. 
gradually diminishing spikelets on each side, terminating a short sheathed 
unarmed appendix, secondary spathes membranous, infundibuliform, much 
split alongside and produced laterally into an acuminate slashed limb; 
spikelets inserted inside their respective spathes, very briefly pedicelled, 
with the flowers 12 mm broad, caudiculate at apex; the intermediate 
spikelets of every inflorescence being the largest, 8—10 cm long with 12— 
44 flowers on each side; those above the middle gradually smaller with 
fewer flowers; spathels similar to the secondary spathes and equally spit 
with slashed apices; involucrophorum attached near the bottom of its own 
spathel obliquely calyciform attenuate at the base; involucre also calyci- 
form, attenuate at the base and more or less split; areola of the neuter 
flower lunate sharply bordered. Female flowers ascendent, approxi- 
mate, ovoid, 7 mm long; calyx sharply striately veined; corolla as long 
as the calyx. Spathes, spathels, involucra and flowers of a brown colour 
and thinly furfuraceous. Fruit unknown. 
Nordöstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Hunsteinspitze, 1300 m, 
20—25 m hoch kletternd, Internodien 35—50 cm lang (Lepermann n. 11346). 
A very distinct species belonging to the group I of my monograph having a cer- 
tain degree of affinity with the indian C. erectus especially on account of its much 
lacerated spathes and spathels. It is howewer a climbing plant, distinguishable also by 
its leaves with distinctly fasciculate, narrowly lanceolate, subpluricostulate, hairless and 
ae leaflets, even at their apices, and with the rachis strongly ¢ clawed beneath 
vered all over with a very dark adherent indumentum; by its female spadix 
having several superposed rather compact partial inflorescences, separated by unsheathed 
ns of the axial part, powerfully armed with robust scattered claws, by the broad 
VE with approximate ascendent flowers and split and lacerate spathels; besides 
all parts are of a dark colour and finely furfuraceous. 
