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s my on both surfaces, rather distinctly 3-costulate, mid-costa very sparing 
bristly spinulous only near the apex in the upper-surface; the 3-cost 
underneath feebler and only that of the middle obsoletely spinulous • ma 
gms very minutely remotely and appressedly spinulous; spinules mo 
numerous and d.stmct in the apical part; transverse vein.ets inequal I 
v ery sharp and pellucid, lowermost leaflets (in a portion of a leaf se , 
by me consisting of its apical part 80 cm in length) 43 cm long, 23 m 
broad; this upper ones gradually shorter, the two terminal being tl 
smallest and quite free at the basis. Male spadix . . . Female spadi 
straigt, rigid and rather elongate (not fiagelliform) terminating into a rud 
mentary cirrus and divided into several gradually diminishing superpose, 
Is tant, partial inflorescences; primary spathes elongate-tubular, closel 
sheathing ,n their lower part, produced above into an elongate, dry men 
branous, lacerate limb, covered with a minute rusty scurf and densel 
Jeset with small short prickles having a bulbous light coloured base; pa, 
ia in orescences inserted inside their respective spathes, not long-pedicellei 
rather dense rising erect from the leafsheaths and slightly arched above 
the lowesl inflorescence in the portion of spadix seen by me 18 cm Ion 
with 7-8 gradually diminishing spikeiets on each side; those above speed 
sma er with considerably fewer spikeiets; secondary spathes infundibuli 
oi m, truncate, c,bate at the mouth, rusty scurfy and very denselv bese 
. “ P nckles > llke th °se covering the primary spathes but smaller 
spike ets inserted just above the mouths of their respective spathes will 
a distinct axillary callus, spreading and arched subscorpioid, the lowest o 
■ P» rtlal inflorescence 5 cm long with two series of 8—9 biserioir 
aSSUr§ent n0t f,atly bifari0US flowers ; u PP er spikeiets graduait 
sma 1er, the uppermost very short with very few flowers; spathels ven 
.h e lnf r dlbU,,f r' C0VCr0d With the same kind of minute prickles a! 
the secondary spathes; involucrophorum short, cupular, placed just at the 
.se af its own spathel, involucre orbicular shallowly cupular; areola oi 
ic neuer ower lunate callous. Fruiting perianth briefly pedicelliform. 
er es" co y ° Ung ^ with stou t beak, scales* in 21 vertical 
Ttl ° X SUbsquarr0sa ’ y ellowish ' n ‘heir posticous part, and will. 
ied-brown margins and point. 
Nordüstl. Neu- Guinea: Kaiser Wilhelmsland, Hunsteinspitze, 1300 in 
(Ledermann n. 1 1 505). 1 1 
wm, c ; 0 ‘,r ; eaf on : y and a few ^ 
Calamus. It is L, Irin ', COllector notes onl y »hochkletternder daumendicker 
leaf-sheaths have a Z 7 “ “ 7^ ' li8h SCa " denl P ' ant ’ aml “ is not known if ‘he 
monograph 8 and it eù ers ta 1Td“? V of my 
scabrid- but it is » , , d IS '° n A hav ' ng Spalhes and spathels conspicuous!. 
characterized by the noTl^mus te? 6 "! ‘° ^ °' her kn <™ * ™ and 
late subensiform long-acuminate 3 COS i,,'i!i nunierous ec l uid 'stant narrowly lanceo- 
° 1 3-costulate nearly smooth leaflets, by the female spadix 
