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vein, the lateral veins with or without bristles ; margins with bristles. 

 The leaves towards the apex of the stem small, with comparatively 

 very long flagelli. 



Spadices with compressed shortly exserted peduncles bearded along 

 the edges. Male spadices much branched, varying in length, in some 

 15-16 inches long, in others also including the spathes scarcely 6, 

 and then much more ovate. Outer spathe in the exposed part dense- 

 ly covered with grey-brown, bristly hairs an inch or 1^ inch long, 

 these are continued up above the middle of the beak, the moderate 

 apex of which is smooth. Second spathe bearded chiefly along the 

 middle, as is also the third. Spikes flexuose, with some rust- coloured 

 scurf, a single flower at each flexure, suffulted by a bracte and a cup. 



Flowers as usual oblique. Calyx nearly cylindrical, 3 times longer 

 than the cup, with three short teeth. Corolla divided almost to the 

 base, not quite twice as long as the calyx. Stamina 6, united among 

 each other and to the base of the corolla ; filaments subulate from 

 a stout base ; anthers linear- sagittate. Rudiment of a Pistillum mi- 

 nute, tripartite. 



Female spadices shorter, the upper ones not more than 4-6 inches 

 long, branches generally simple. Flowers with 1 bractea and 2 brac- 

 teolse, a callous looking space on one side between the lower and 

 the uppermost almost cup- shaped bracteole. Calyx ovate, the teeth 

 somewhat tufted at the points. Corolla 3 -partite below the middle : 

 ovate from the middle downwards, segments erect. Sterile stamens 6. 

 Ovarium oblong-ovate, covered with scales, three-celled ; ovula soli- 

 tary ; style stout, short with three long revolute inwardly stigmatic 

 branches. Fruit exposed, globular, about the size of a large marble, 

 mammillato-cuspidate, surrounded at the base by the persistent peri- 

 anth ; scales tawny with a rather broad dark brown intromarginal 

 line. Seed erect. Albumen deeply ruminate. Embryo basilar. 



45. (35) C. petiolaris, (n. sp.) erectus, petiolorum parte 

 nuda sub-7-pedali teretiuscula inferne spinis oblique seriatis 

 armata superne aculeis dorsalibus uncinatis et marginalibus 

 (paucis) dentiformibus vel omnino inermi, inter pinnas cum 

 vel absque aculeis dorsalibus, pinnis confertis sequidistantibus 

 linearibus (long. 15-17 uncialibus lat. 6-7 linealibus) supra 



