0. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II. 
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pnendix sheathed by some reduced spathes; primary spathes thickly 
oriaceous, unarmed or nearly so, glabrous, very finely striolale long.tudi- 
,ally tubular, very loosely sheathing or slightly inflated, suddenly narro- 
vin- in their lower part, the mouth obliquely truncate, glabrous and very 
irieTly produced at one side into a triangular point; partial inflorescences 
iscendent and appressed to the main axis, inserted not far inside the 
noulh of their respective spathes; the few seen by me, belonging to t e 
upper part of the spadix, 13-15 cm long, 8-10 cm broad, ovate m 
outline, but flattened, or having on each side of the rachis several ( ) 
rather approximate spikelets all inserted on the same plane; secondary 
spathes short infundibuliform, their mouths loose and wide, exactly trun¬ 
cate glabrous and very briefly apiculate, at one side fruit bearing; spikelets 
slightly arched horizontal or recurved, 4—5 cm long; inserted somew a 
above the mouth of their respective spathes; their axis slender with 12 •> 
flowers on each side; spathules short infundibuliform glabrous truncate an 
apiculate at one side; involucrophorum with a very small orbicular Inn 
laterally attached outside its own spathula; involucre discoid subtuberculi- 
form- areola of the neuter flower very small depressed callous. Fema e 
flow'ers very small. Fruiting perianth very briefly pedicelliform or 
with a short callous base and with suddenly spreading divisions of the 
calyx and corolla. Fruit small, globose 8 mm in diam., beaked the oea 
narrow abruptly rising on the rounded or slightly depressed vertex, scales 
in 18 series, uniformely light coloured, shiny, narrowly grooved along the 
middle and depressed in their anticous part and more or less gibbous 
posticously, the apices bluntish. Seed globular coarsely and yegula. not 
deeply grooved; albumen homogeneous; chalazal fovea small pit-like, 
embryo basal. 
Nordöstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Peilungsberg (Leder- 
mànn n. 6929). 
It is evidently related to C. microcarpus Becc., a philippine species, but distinct 
ivom hi as from the other species of its group by its leaves having lanceolate, sub- 
Ïdi^nt pluricostulate, considerably apart leaflets fl«^ spineless- » d ,auri^on 
hoth surfaces and with the margins also smooth; by the spadix not fla„cl > 
h n h ves caudiculate at apex, and having flattened rather dense ovate part,a 
inflorescences inserted not far from the mouth of the spathes; by the primary spath» 
tubular loosely sheathing or subinflated; by the spikelets approximate, spreading 
recurved having short loose truncate secondary spathes, and being attac e 0 
v , • nwn . hv the involucrophorum attached laterally out&idc the 
is ft"; ; 
by the small pisiform bosked fruit .ilk contolour acalos, ami by ilia glu m ai sea 
uneven surface and uniform albumen. 
C. brevifolius Becc. n. sp. - Scandens. Folia caudicem tenuem vagi- 
rantia, sessilia; vaginae spinis inaequilongis armaUss.mae > ^f° ar J a “ 
armato munitae, apice laceratae. Foliorum rhach.s tenuis, subtus armata, 
