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out an obvious spiral arrangement, they separate at the top 

 of the dilated part, and subsequently fall off leaving a smooth 

 trunk. The lamina is 5-6 ft. long, 15 ft. broad, glaucescent ; 

 the segments 90-95, deeper and broader than in C. umbraculi- 

 fera, the central being S-S\ feet long. 



Roxburgh's drawing represents the inflorescence as conical 

 pyramidal, longer than the crown of leaves, open so that 

 the spathes and branches are seen distinctly, and these last 

 as regularly diminishing upwards.* 



53. (3) C. umbraculifera, trunco annulato, petiolis exauri- 

 culatis, lamina (petiolum subaequante) a medio supra condu- 

 plicata, laciniis 90-100 parum profundis ensiformibus bilobis 

 posticis cum petiolo angulum acutum exhibentibus, glomerulis 

 florum approximatis, fructibus pomi minoris magnitudine et 

 forma, embryone in apice albuminis centro cavi. 



C. umbraculifera, Linn. Spec. PL ed. 2da. p. 1657. FL 

 ZeyL p. 187. (excl. syn. Rumphii.) Gccrtn. Fruct. et. Sem. 

 \.p. 18. t. 7. sem. inverso (excl. syn. Rumphii.) Willd. Sp. PL 

 2. p. 201. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 138. Lam. Enc. Met ft. 

 899. (e Rheede et Gaertner.) Syst. Veg. ed. Schultes. 7. p. 



* I subjoin descriptions of flowers and fruit from Garden specimens with the 

 name C. umbraculifera, but which I believe to belong here. 



Flower-beariny branches often dichotomous above the mouths of their spathes, 

 about 2 inches long. Flowers several together, on short stout subannulate stalks, 

 among the bases of which small scales may be found. Calyx short, cup-shaped, 

 with three very rounded teeth. Corolla 3-times longer than the calyx, petals ob- 

 long, concave, very spreading in bud, imbricate ! Stamina 6; filaments stout subu- 

 late, about as long as the petals, those opposite the petals being twice as broad ; 

 anthers oblong-ovate. Ovarium globose turbinate, 3-lobed, each lobe with 3 de- 

 pressed areolae on its vertex. Style about as long, stout, subulate, 3- furrowed. 

 Stigma subsimple. Ovula solitary, erect, anatropous. 



Fruit globose, substance excepting the cutis rather thick, homogeneous, fleshy, 

 cellular. Seed erect, oblong roundish ; tegument externally cellular, coriaceous, 

 internally blackish, subosseous, adhering firmly to the very dense, hollow in the 

 centre, horny albumen. Embryo situated rather obliquely in the apex of the al- 

 bumen, the cavity containing it communicating with the central cavity of the al- 

 bumen. 



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