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Descr.* — Stature much the same as that of the preceding. Sheaths 

 armed with black seriate flat spines. Petioles transversely puckered 

 at the base ; naked portion (below the pinna)) about a foot long, 

 plano-convex, armed on the back towards the base with scattered 

 prickles ; about a span from this, it has on the back solitary, rather 

 long deflexed spines, and along the margins some stout deflexed 

 spines, and more numerous, slender, ascending ones inside these. 

 Pinniferous part three and a half to four feet in length, angu- 

 lar with claw- shaped aculei along the lower convex surface. These 

 are continued into the flagellus. Pinnce, rather distant, scat- 

 tered, often opposite, linear-lanceolar, fifteen inches long, not ex- 

 ceeding one in breadth, subulato- acuminate, glaucescent ?, above with 

 a central carina with or without bristles and two lateral veins bear- 

 ing a few long bristles ; midvein underneath bristle-bearing as also 

 are the margins. 



Spadix with an ovate body and a very long beak, twice as long as 

 the body, the whole length being about eighteen inches. The pe- 

 duncle unarmed ; about an inch long in its free exserted part. Outer 

 spathe bicarinate, covered with very long deflexed, slender, subulate 

 brownish thorns, as is also the very long and stout beak. The se- 

 cond is thickly armed in a similar manner. The branches of the 

 spadix flowers and fruit scarcely, if at all, distinguishable from the 

 same parts of C. grandis. 



This species is distinguishable with difficulty from the 

 preceding. The stature appears to be smaller, and it pre- 

 sents lateral veins with bristles. The chief distinction how- 

 ever is in the armature of the spathes, the thorns of which 

 are very slender, more deflexed, and much more numerous. 



41. (31) C. Lewisianus, (n. sp.) aculeis petiolorum dorsali- 

 bus uncinatis, marginalibus (infra pinnas) inaequalibus conico- 

 subulatis ssepius binatis vel ternatis superadditis, pinnis con- 



Specimens : an entire upper part of a female plant with young fruit. 



