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Pinnules alternate, rather distant, largest two feet two inches long, 

 one and a half inch broad, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, subulato- 

 acuminate, paler but not glaucous below ; mid vein prominent above, 

 below bearing towards the apex a few large bristles ; margins with 

 bristly teeth ; points as usual hispid. 



Spadix (entire ?) one and a half or two feet long. Peduncle co- 

 vered with spathes, with long, very lacerated, striate limbs. Branches 

 approximated, suffulted by short lacerated split speathes, longer than 

 the internodes, and distichously branched ; the upper simple. 



Spikes four-five inches long, with a tendency to gyration, scarcely 

 compressed. Bractece amplectent, also split, each concealing a short 

 three-toothed cup, broadly- emarginate behind, anteriorly oblique. 

 Flowers distichous, comparatively distant. Calyx oblong-ovate, 

 longer by half than its bractea, with three, rather short, broad ovate, 

 acute teeth, very striate. Corolla twice as long as calyx, divided 

 almost to the base where it is attenuated, segments oblong lanceolate, 

 sub-acute. Stamina shorter than the corolla. Filaments united to 

 the corolla as far as the base of it segments, distinct, rather long, 

 subulate, flattened, smooth. Anthers large, linear-oblong, about as 

 long as the filament. Rudiments of the Pistillum of three narrow 

 carpels scarcely at all united. 



This species is closely allied to the succeeding, from 

 which it differs in the armature, which also appears to be 

 of pale colour, the larger pinna? green underneath, the split 

 lacerated sheaths, and the flowers, which are less closely 

 and strikingly bifarious than in any of the others of this 

 section. 



It also approaches in its leaves to C. longisetus. 



14. (4) C. arbor escens, (n. sp.) trunco erecto nudo 15-20 

 pedali, pinnis aequidistantibus lineari-lanceolatis (long. 13 

 uncialibus lat. 1 uncialibus) subtus albidis, vena centrali 

 utrinque setigera, spadicibus supra decompositis longe pen- 

 dulis, spathis primariis armatis, calyce bracteae longitudine 

 quam corolla triplo breviore, staminibus basi monadelphis. 



