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fluent claws; petiole .....; the leaf -rachis (in the intermediate por- 
tion) is slightly convex beneath, where it is strongly and regularly armed 
with half -whorls of 5-nate claws; and with a very sharp and spinulous 
salient angle above and flat sided facets; leaflets numerous, equidistant, 
about 4 cm. apart, green and subshining on both surfaces, papyraceous, 
very narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate-ensiform, broadest not very far 
above the base and • thence shortly narrowing downwards, gradually 
acuminate to a subulate and at the sides spinulous tip; in the upper 
surface the mid-costa is tenuous and sharp, spinulous only near its 
summit, and accompanied on each side by a tenuous secondary nerve; 
t his stronger than some other nerves of the same kind and spinulous; 
underneath the mid-costa alone is minutely bristly spinulous; transverse 
veinlets very tenuous and sharp especially in the upper surface; the 
intermediate leaflets 33-40 cm. long, 17-20 mm. broad. Female spadix 
before flowering very narrowly cylindric and elongate, slightly arched; 
primary spathes^ at first tubular very obliquely truncate at the mouth and 
produced at the summit into a triangular point, later longitudinally 
split; the outermost spathe, after flowering, elongate-spathulate, grad- 
ually narrowing towards the base into a rather short, flattened, prickly, 
pedicellar part, totally and very densely armed externally with solitary 
or more or less seriate and confluent, deflexed, short, unequal spines, 
which have a reddish brown tip and a lighter swollen base; inner 
spathes prickly only on the back, especially near their summit, smooth 
on the margins at the mouth; when in flower or fruit, the female 
spadix is tenuously rusty furfuraceous in every part, about 60 cm. 
long, slender, rigid, with 6-7 partial inflorescences ; the peduncular part 
of the spadix is 7-8 cm. long, 7-8 mm. broad, slightly flattened, very 
slightly enlarged upwards, armed with deflexed, solitary or confluent 
and sugiditate, straight, rather short, deflexed spines; the main axis 
(of the spadix) is straight with its lowest (2-3) internodes slightly 
flattened, the others obsoletely angular; secondary and tertiary spathes 
inconspicuous; partial inflorescences triangular in outline, the lower 
ones, the largest, 11—12 cm. long; the upper ones shorter, with 5-7 
bifarious regularly alternate spreading spikelets on either side; the- 
axis of the partial inflorescences straight, very acutely 3-4-gonous; the 
lower spikelets, the largest, 3. 5-4.5 cm. long, with 6 to 9 bifarious 
flowers on each side, their axis very acutely angular and zigzag sinuous; 
upper spikelets shorter and with fewer flowers; spathels scarious, 
very shortly annular and embracing, produced at one side into a 
triangular spreading acute point ; involuerophorum shortly but distinctly 
. pedicelliform, 1-2 mm, long, angular, very spreading or horizontal 
. when bearing the fruit, distinctly callous in its axilla, truncate and 
with a very short triangular point at one side at its summit; involucre 
slightly raised above the involuerophorum, its limb represented by a 
