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tertiary nerves which here are more prominent than above; the largest 
leaflets, the medials, are as much as 70 to 75 cm in length and 4 to 5 
cm in width; those near the base are narrower and shorter than the 
medials and very acuminate; those of the apex, also narrow, often linear, 
and cpiite free at the base. From the bases of the leaflets, and between 
them, especially in the newly expanded leaves, there often hang long 
strands which are apparently analogous to the filaments interposed be- 
tween the divisions of the leaves of the Washingtonias, and of many 
other palms having palmate leaves. Spadix forming a panicle 40 to 50 
cm in length and about as wide, with a thick semilunar base embracing 
the stem, and a very short (2 to 3 cm long) peduncular part; the panicle 
is ultradecompound, and is divided into several approximate, alternate, 
very spreading or almost horizontal, rather thick, gradually diminishing 
primary branches, of which the lowest are twice branched, and the upper 
ones simply divided into a few branchlets; these ultimate or flowering 
branchlets are spreading, slightly arched, 3 to 10 cm long, rigid, terete, 
1.5 to 2 mm thick at the base, rugose-striate, (when dry) more or less 
distinctly zigzag-sinuous in the subulate termination; in their lower part, 
the branchlets bear all around a few (1 to 6 ) glomeruli of ternate flowers, 
one female between two males, and higher, almost distically, only solitary 
male flowers; there is no distinct bract at the base of the branches or 
branchlets but only a semicircular raised margin. Spathes not seen by 
me, very early deciduous; their position is marked by 2 or 3 very narrow 
annular rings around the base of the spadix. The whole inflorescence 
is smooth and glaucous when fresh and in flower. The 3-nate flowers 
are subtended by a common and very short scale-like rounded bract; 
the central female flower is embraced by two special rather conspicuous 
sepaloid bracts which are crescent-shaped, and which form under the 
fruiting perianth a slightly concave, 5 mm broad, cup or calycule; the male 
flowers of The glomerules are devoid of a special bract, while those at the 
ends of the branchlets, which are single, have a rudimentary one. Male 
flowers symmetric, when full grown and in bud, regularly oblong-ovoid, 
slightly narrowing toward a rather blunt apex, 10 to 12 mm long, 7 
mm broad; the calyx cupular, its sepals smooth outside, imbricate, sub- 
rotund-reniform or broader than high, with almost scariose, thin, entire, 
glabrous margins, otherwise very thinly coriaceous, slightly thickened 
and gibbous at the base ; the corolla twice as long as the calyx ; the petals 
coriaceous, smooth outside, and narrowly elliptic, concave or boat-shaped ; 
stamens numerous, somewhat unequal; filaments filiform, very slender, 
coalescent by their bases, not inflected at their summit, unequal, anthers 
narrowly linear, also somewhat unequal, 4 to 6 mm long, usually acute 
or apiculate at the summit, but occasionally obtuse or even emarginate, 
inserted on the filament a little above the base of the dorsal side, with 
very narrow parallel cells, which are united by a relatively broad linear 
connective and are very shortly divided at their base; rudimentary ovary 
