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from near the mouths of the sheaths of the leaves ; they are long, 

 jointed, slender as a pack-thread, drooping, sheathed, armed with 

 numerous, very sharp, recurved prickles. Male. Spadix from the 

 mouths of the sheaths or opposite sides of the flagelli compound, 

 jointed ; joints approximate, sheathed ; ramifications recurved, bear- 

 ing two rows of sessile flowers on their convex side. Calyx 1 -leav- 

 ed, tridentate, sitting on the joints of the rachis in a three- toothed 

 cup, which may be called a lower or exterior calyx. Corol 3 -part- 

 ed, with the base fleshy, and partly impervious. Filaments six, 

 thick at the base, and inserted on the mouth of the fleshy impervious 

 tube of the corol. Anthers linear, incumbent. Pistillum, a small, 

 three-toothed, abortive, style-like body is all that is to be found." 

 Roxburgh. 



24. (14) C. Mishmeensis, (n. sp.) petiolo (pinnifero) spinis 

 solitariis longis uncinatis subtus armato et margine aculeato, 

 pinnis fasciculatis (vel superioribus alternis) lineari-lanceo- 

 latis (long. 15 uncialibus lat. \\ uncialibus) apice obtusis 

 pennicillatis, supra venis 5 setigeris, subtus centrali tantum, 

 spadice aculeato, spatha primaria infima ancipiti secus mar- 

 gines aculeata, spicis simplicibus patentibus, fructibus glo- 

 bosis (albis). 



Hab. — At the foot of the Mishmee mountains near Tapan 

 Gam's village: in fruit, November 1837. 



Desc* — Scandent. Petiole (in the pinniferous part) trigonal, lower 

 face concave, armed along to middle with long hooked spines, with 

 here and there, particularly about the margins, short aculei, these 

 gradually disappear towards the apex of the leaf. Pinna fasciculate, 

 with solitary ones interspersed, towards apex distantly alternate, li- 

 near lanceolate, fifteen or sixteen inches long, one and a quarter broad, 

 upper face with three keels, which bear bristles of good size ; there 

 are also two lateral veins (one on either side) with small bristles ; un- 

 der surface with the midvein unequally bristly above the middle, mar- 

 gins with spreading pungent bristles, apex obtuse, with the bristles so 

 much developed and crowded as to be nearly pencilled. 



* Specimens : parts of a leaf, and spadix in fruit, fruits broken. 



