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tibus, 10-20 cm longis et ad basin 2-2.5 mm crassis, crebre tubereulatis. 
Flores parvi, globosi, 1.6 mm lati. Fructus globosi, perianthio brevissime 
pedicelliformi suffulti, 14-15 mm diametro, ad matnritatem azureis et 
nitidis; mesocarpio parcissime crasso; endocarpio tenuissimo, fragili. 
Semen globosum, non exacte sphaericnm, 11 mm latum, intus fere usque 
ad medium processu raphidis cylindraceo perfossum. 
A large and robust tree. Leaves large, the blade measuring in one 
specimen 1.25 m from the ligule to the end of the central leaflets (this 
came apparently from a full grown plant) ; leaf-sheaths disintegrated 
into fillers of a reddish color, and with the principal vascular bundles 
forming long, woody, very rigid, flattened strands, 2 to 5 mm broad. 
Petiole armed in its lower portion with numerous and approximate, more 
or less reversed spines, which have a tumescent base 10 to 12 mm broad, 
and are 10 to 15 mm long; in the upper portion the petiole bears only 
a few small superficial spines at the sides near the apex; ligule short, 
woody, crescent-shaped, with a smooth margin; the blade is firmly papy- 
raceous, green and concolorous on both surfaces, with the divisions 
marked by very fine and inconspicuous, transverse veinlets; the blade is 
orbicular in outline, very deeply and unequally multifid, some of the 
sinuses or reentering angles between the divisions being either deeper, or 
else situated nearer the apex of the petiole than others; the deeper 
sinuses divide the blade into several primary partitions or segments, 
which are 2- or 3-costulate, and are in their turn subdivided higher up 
into 2 or 3 secondary segments, the secondary segments are thus separated 
from each other bj r the secondary sinuses, and are again deeply cleft into 
two very acuminate hanging lacinias ; of the primary divisions the outer- 
most remain free a few centimeters above the apex of the petiole, and have 
very narrow secondary segments and very long and flaccid lacinias; the 
intermediate are united for a longer distance, and the single segments 
are 3 cm broad where they separate from each other, and have shorter 
ultimate lacinise than the outermost; the union of the central extends 
still higher up and the single segments are 4 cm broad at their base, 
and though also long acuminate are shorter than in all the preceding 
segments. The spadix in one specimen has the peduncular part as thick 
as the wrist and is divided into 7 or 8 partial inflorescences; these are 
arched, rather large, twice branched, and have 'their main axis divided 
near the base into two branches; the fruiting ultimate branchlets are 
terete, 10 to 20 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm thick at the base, with the pulvinuli 
of the fallen flowers very close together and tuberculiform. The spathes 
are thinly coriaceous, brown, sealy-furfuraceous externally, shining and 
darker inside, rigid, with a long basal tubular part, which terminates in 
an elongate auriculiform limb; this is more or less lacerated and fibrous 
at its margins. Flowers small, globular, 1.6 mm in diameter ; the sepals 
orbicular, thick only at their base, otherwise very thin and hyaline; the 
