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The peduncle with the spike may attain a length of 500 mm. and it 

 protrudes to the top of the leaf-sheaths; very often the stem remains short 

 and the spike so as in C. domestica appears laterally between the sheaths. 

 Usually there are two peduncular-leaves of which then the highest is bract- 

 shaped and forms a part of the spike ; while the lowest sometimes has a long 

 abnormal narrow blade; sometimes the peduncular-leaf is wanting and 

 then there are two sterile bracts at the base of the spike. The spike reaches 

 a length of 100 — 220 (mostly 140) mm. The number of bracts is 30-67. 

 The flower-bearing bracts are ovate-elliptical with a broad ovate upper- 

 part, attenuate, but rounded at the top; the free parts are longer and 

 broader than the pouches, but narrower than the latter by the inward 

 bending of the side-parts, they are erect, their tops more or less patent, 

 in the largest intermediate bracts the tops become acute and more decurved. 

 The coma-leaves are elliptical-lanceolate to oblong and mucronate, and 

 much spreading. 



In a spike 200 mm. long and 100 mm. broad at the top, with about 

 35 bracts the middle size of the bracts is 43 X 35 ; the lowest sterile 44 X 30: 

 (pouch 17) and one of the lowest 50 X 30 (pouch 20) : the 16th from below. 

 The largest coma-leaves of a large spike are 84 X 30 (pouch 24) 78 X 34 

 (pouch 20) most of these bear flowers, about 4 are usually sterile. 



The coma-leaves are quite white in the lower part, lightgreen in the 

 upperpart (286 and lighter) or nearly white, they are more or less distinctly 

 light-brown spotted at the top on the outer-side. The flower-bracts are 

 light-green (276—281) with a hyaline hairy edge. All the bracts are short 

 and fine hairy on both sides as is also the peduncle. 



The first bracteole is rather large, somewhat longer than the coroll- 

 tube, 22X13 — 26 mm. long, pellucid-white. The flower 45 — 50mm. long 

 always arises 10—15 mm. above the bracts, except in the leaves of the 

 coma, where flower and bract are about the same length. 



The calyx is at the top almost truncate with 3 unequal toothlets of 

 which the smallest is connate with the largest and separated from the 

 third one by a short split, with a rather long split on the dorsal side 

 between the 2 larger toothlets. Length 11 mm. split 4 mm. ; corolla 50 mm. 

 Tube 16, ring 2, faux infundibular, narrowed, 14 — 15 mm. Lab. with broad 

 semiorbicular mid-lobe, 8 mm. broad, projecting 3 mm., incised with round 

 lobules. Lab. narrowed at the base, 17X17, only 12 mm. broad at the 

 base. Faux 13 — 14, when flattened 25 mm. broad. Staminodes elliptical, 

 more or less falcate, somewhat widened at the top with a deep 

 longitudinal wrinkle, with an obtuse top, 13 — 14X7, filament (the free 

 portion) 4X4. The dorsal corolla-lobe is 14X11» nearly glabrous at the 

 top. The side-lobes are rotundate-ovate, 10X9. The anther is large and 

 narrow, the spurs, curved and very acute, are nearly as long as the loculi. 



