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bristly ; spikelets short, 3 to 4 cm long, rather broad, with a zigzag-sinuous 
axis, and with only 4 or 5 alternate flowers, or pairs of flowers, on each 
side; spathes broad, concave, embracing the involucre, and produced at 
one side into a triangular point; involucrophore concave, Cjuite sessile, 
attached laterally to the base of the spathel above its own ; involucre 
shallowly, and, often, asymmetrically cupular, usually bidentate at one 
side. Female flowers ovate, 6 mm long, usually in pairs at each spathel 
in the lower part of the spikelets ; in this case they are not accompanied by 
a neutral flower; near the end of the spikelets the female flowers are 
solitary, and the involucre bears a very depressed, lunate, sharply defined 
areola for the reception of the neuter flower. Fruit , when still very 
young, ventricose in the middle, narrowed at both ends, stoutly beaked 
and terminated by three, small, recurved stigmas. Scales in fifteen lon- 
gitudinal series, not channelled along the middle, of a straw-yellow color 
in the posticous part and with a broad black marginal line, apices squar- 
rose, slightly produced, and erosely-ciliate. Seed Fruiting 
perianth campanulate, narrowing to a rather acute base; the calyx split 
down past the middle into three broadly ovate lobes; the corolla barely 
longer than the calyx. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Lalloc, in dense forests at about 50 m above the 
sea, For. Bur. 66^9 Klemme, April, 1907. 
A very singular species of the group of G. palustris, related to C. Jenningsianus, 
but quite distinct by its larger fruit and especially by its geminate flowers in the 
lower part of the spikelets. N. v. arugda. 
Calamus Jenningsianus Becc. sp. nov. 
Scandens, mediocris, caudice vaginato circiter 2.5 cm diametro; vagina 
crebre spic-ulis parvis, brevibus (4-5 mm longis) armata; ocrea breviter 
ligulaefonni, glabra. Folia cirro robusto elongato terminata, petiolo 12 
cm longo, supra piano et aculeis brevibus erectis consperso; segmentis 
non numerosis, aequidistantibus, 4-5 cm inter se dissitis, e basi acuta 
anguste elliptico-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 3-5-costulatis, intermediis 22-25 
cm longis, 30-32 mm latis. Spadix foemineus breviuseulus, caudiculo 
brevi terminatus; sjoathis primariis inferne tubulosis, superne apertis et 
in dorso acute carinatis, earina aculeata; spathis secundariis infundibuli- 
formibus, laxe vaginantibus, spicis brevibus, 2-3 cm longis, scorpioideis, 
paucifloris; floribus utrinque 2 vel 3, alternis, spathellis infundibuli- 
formibus. Fructus late ovoideo-elliptici, circiter 25 cm longi, 18 mm 
lati, squamis per orthostichas 12 ordinatis, crassiusculis, valde convexis 
et profunde in medio canaliculatis, stramineis, anguste nigro-marginatis ; 
semine globoso, 11 mm diametro, undique extus minute foveolato, albu- 
mine profunde ruminato. 
Scandent, of moderate size; sheathed stem apparently 2.5 cm in 
diameter. Leaf-sheaths rather densely armed with small, rigid, and 
short (4 to 5 mm long), horizontal spiculse, which rest on bulbous 
bases. Ocrea shortly liguliform, glabrous. Leaves terminated by a robust 
