0. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II. 
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,vers conically ovoid, acute, 3 mm long. Fruiting perianth not quite 
olanate or very broadly obconical. Fruit (immature) small, ovoid-ellip- 
j equally rounded at both ends, very minutely beaked, 9 mm long, 
nm in diam. (probably somewhat larger when thoroughly mature); scales 
18 vertical series convex very narrowly grooved along the centre, polished 
an almost uniform dirty straw-colour or slightly brownish on the mar- 
, s , the tip appressed bluntish not produced. Seed immature. 
’pjordöstl. Neu-Guinea: Kaiser Wilhelmsland, Pionierlager, charak- 
•istische, häufige Palme im Sumpfwald am Sepikufer (Ledermann n. 7 198). 
It belongs to group XIV of my monograph containing semi-aequatic species or 
,wing in very damp or swampy forests near the sea-shores or on the banks of the 
prs It is no wonder therefore if G. sepikemis shows very marked affinities with 
7 nllinaerii a species growing in Celebes, also a litoral plant. All the species ol that 
oup are characterized by the cirriferous leaves, the non flagelliferous leef-sheaths, the 
adices shorter than the leaves forming large panicles non flagelliferous at apex, and 
the spikelets inserted to the bottom of their respective spathes by means ol a 
stinct pedicellar part. In that group G sepikemis is distinguishable by its narrow 
.ear-lanceolate leaflets, very sparingly bristly on 3 nerves on both surfaces; and by 
e very small ovoid-elliptical fruits equally rounded at both ends, very minutely bea 
,th scales small, convex straw-coloured finely grooved along the centre and blunt at 
3 apex. 
C. scalirispathus Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia apice cirrho carentia. 
hachis angulo supra acuto, laevi, subtus unquibus inaequalibus mediocnbus 
unita. Foliola numerosa, aequidistantia, linean-lanceolata vel su ensi- 
rmia, sensim in acumen angustissimum attenuata, 3-costulata, fere laevia, 
ista media ut marginibus parcissime apicem versus spinulosa. Spadix y 
•ectus rigidus, appendiculo brevi non flabelliformi terminatus, inflorescentus 
artiali'bus nonnullis, satis densis, superne diminuentibus. Spathae pnmanae 
tbulares, anguste vaginantes, superne laceratae, ferrugineo-leprosae, spmulis 
revibus basi bulbosis dense obtectae. Inflorescentiae partiales infra spathas 
uflulgentes insertae, ramulis satis approximatis, subscorpioideis, spathis 
pathulisque spinulis densis basi bulbosis asperrimis. Ramuli superne longi- 
adine diminuentes, ad os spathae suffulgentis inserti, fioribus bisenat.s, 
witer assurgentibus; involucrophorum breve, spathula suilultum, cupu are. 
'erianthium fructiferum breviter pedicelliforme. Fructus obovoideus, robuste 
ostratus, squamis 21-seriatis, flavidis, margine et apice fulvis loncatus. 
Apparently of middling size. Leaf-sheaths . . . Leaves non 
lirriferous [3 m long (Ledermann)] rachis (in their upper part) w.th a very 
iharp smooth salient angle above and flat side faces, rather power u > 
irmed beneath with inequal claws, with some of which small and scattered 
tnd other larger and more or less confluent especially along the centre, 
leaflets numerous, equidistant linear-lanceolate or sub-ensiform, tapering 
somewhat towards the base and very gradually acuminate to a subulate 
very slender almost capillary apex, papyraceous, concolour and almos. 
