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Flowers oblong, oblique, situated at the flexures, each suffulted by 

 an amplectent ovate-acute generally ciliate bracte, and a cup with 

 two pennicillate teeth next the axis. Calyx oblong, very stri- 

 ate, shortly 3-toothed; teeth with short tufts of ferruginous hairs. 

 Corolla rather more than twice the length of the calyx, divided 

 nearly to the base ; segments oblong, concave. Stamina 6 ; filaments 

 subulate, fleshy, red, united by their bases to each other and to the 

 petals. Anthers not seen, nor the rudiment of the Pistillum. 



Female spadix about the same length : the lower part of the pe- 

 duncle, however, is longer, and the armature as well as that of the 

 outer spathe more slender, bristly and white ; the beak is also similar- 

 ly armed. Flower-bearing branches flattened, so that the spikes are 

 nearly bifarious. Spikes or more properly speaking racemes, 2-3 

 inches long, flexuose, also scurfy. 



Flowers solitary at the flexures, the lowest on short stout stalks, 

 the upper ones sessile. An amplectent acuminate blackish bracte (at 

 the base of the stalk,) and two bracteoles to each flower : between the 

 upper and larger, sometimes cup-shaped bracteole and that next it 

 a gibbosity as though there should be another flower. Apex of the 

 upper bracteole pennicillate. Calyx barrel-shaped with three obsolete 

 teeth. Corolla rather more than twice as long, divided nearly to the 

 base into three linear- lanceolate erect segments. Stamina 6 ; filaments 

 united to the base of the corolla and each other into a cup, (free) 

 short, very broad, without anthers. Ovarium roundish -oblong, cover- 

 ed with scales, 3 -celled. Ovules solitary. Style stout, with three 

 rather long stout sub-recurved branches, lamellar, and pappillose 

 inside. 



The young fruit bearing spadix unaltered ; fruits (very immature) 

 roundish, about the size of a large pea, surrounded at the base by the 

 persistent perianth, beaked by the base of the style ; scales numerous, 

 fuscescent with pale irregular edges. Seed one. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding, and to 

 C. ramosissimus ; it is also one of the forms shewing Daemo- 

 norops not to be generically distinct from Calamus. Indeed 

 this and the preceding species weaken greatly the distinctions 

 between the two last sections, herein proposed, particularly 



