0. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II. 
457 
îflorescenccs short, the largest bearing 6—7 alternate spikelets on each 
de; secondary spathes very unarmed or nearly so, narrowly tubular, 
ifundibuliform, obliquely truncate at the mouth, slightly produced at one 
ide into a triangular acute point; spikelets inserted at the mouth of their 
espective spathes, the lowest and largest about 2 cm long, flattened and 
ectinate with 8—10 quite bifarious nearly horizontal flowers on each 
ide, upper spikelets slightly smaller; spathels subbracteiform glabrous pro¬ 
ceed at one side into a triangular finely, acuminate deflexed point; invo- 
ucrum cupular; male flowers narrow 4 mm long; calyx 3-lobed striateley 
eined; corolla twice as long as the calyx, oblong, very acute almost shiny, 
i'emale spadix: partial inflorescences bearing 2—3 spikelets only on each 
ide; secondary spathes as in the male spadix; spikelets very spreading 
nserted just at the mouth of their respective spathes with a distinct axil¬ 
ary callus; the lowest and largest 3 cm long and bearing 5—6 flowers 
)n each side; their axis zigzag sinuous; spathels infundibuliform truncate; 
nvolucrophorum short; involucre shallowly cupular; areola of the neuter 
lower lunate not sharply defined; fruiting perianth quite explanate. fruit 
ovoid-elliptical very suddenly minutely beaked, 15—17 mm including the 
about 2 mm long beak, 11—12 mm broad; seales in about 20 vertical 
series, slightly broader than long very narrowly grooved along the centre, 
blunt, light straw yellow bordered by a narrow dark-pui pie band. Seed 
ovoid rounded at both ends, slightly concave on the chalazal side, with 
even chestnut brown dull surface. Albumen equable, embryo basal. 
Nordüstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser -Wilhelmsland, Felsspitze, 1400 bis 
1500 m, sehr häufig im Gebirgswald (Ledermann n. 12 388). 
It belongs to group V having non cirriferous leaves and flagelliferous leaf-sheatli^ 
and to the division having smooth spathels and an explanate fruiting perianth and 
approaches G. papuanus on account of its short leaves with few leaflets, of which that 
of the apex is bilobed; it resembles also G. Muelleri, but this has the two terminal 
leaflets briefly united by their bases. In G. brevifolius the leaves have not petiole at 
all and the few leaflets (6—7 on the whole) are in two groups only, one terminal, and 
one just at the mouth of their respective leaf-sheaths, the two groups being separated 
by a long vacant space of rhachis; the spadices and Q are similar, not much longer 
than the leaves and with very few partial inflorescences, the fruit ovoid-elliptical mucro- 
nate, the seed having a smooth chestnut-brown surface, slightly concave chalazal side, 
homogeneous albumen and basal embryo. 
C. sepikensis Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia magna, in ein bum 
longum, robustum, unguibus semiverücillatim congests, *apice nigris, spatiis 
subaeqùalibus sese sequentibus armatum excurrentia. Rhachis subtus eodem 
modo quam cirrhus armata, unquibus inferne simplicioribus. Foliola nume- 
rosissima, lineari-lanceolata, in acumen angustissimum attenuata, 3-costulata, 
costulis utrinque sparse ± spinulosis, nervis transversalibus tenuissimis, 
marginibus minute adp'resse spinulosis. Spadix $ apice llagello carens, 
magnus, divaricato-paniculatus, inflorescentiis partialibus pluribus, mira 
