0. Beccari, Neue Palmen Papuasiens II. 
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ight rigid having some superposed gradually diminishing rather dense partial m- 
escences and terminating into a small rudimentary cirrus; by the primary spathes 
alar closely sheathing in their lower part, and lacerate above, densely beset with 
I Ul prickelets having bulbous bases; by the partial inflorescences having rather appro¬ 
ve subscorpioid gradually diminishing spikelets of a very scabrid appearence, their 
thes and spathels being covered with minute tubercled spinulus; by the female 
vers in two subassurgent series and by the briefly pedicelliiorm perianth. 
C. fuscus Becc. n. sp. — Scandens. Folia magna, apice cirrho ea- 
ltia; rhachis ut inflorescentia in omnibus partibus indumento furfuraceo 
;co 'dense obtecta, subtus unguibus robustis armata. Foliola in tribus 
_4 disposita, anguste-lanceolata, summa latitudine intra mediam partem 
I a, superne sensim acuminata, apice piano, glabra, laevia vel marginibus 
arse obscure spinulosis, 3-costulata, nervis secundariis satis conspicuis 
erpositis, terminalia bina aliis minora, basi libera. Spadix Q rhacbide 
er inflorescentias partiales superpositas vaginis carente. Inflorescentiae 
rtiales adscendentes, compactae, appendice brevi, vaginata, inermi termi- 
tae. Spathae primariae breviter vaginantes, superne laceratae, secundanae 
fundibuliformes, ramulos latos apice caudiculatos suiïulgentes, superne 
dniatae. Spathulae spathis secundariis similes, fissae, prope basin mvo- 
crophorum nascentes. Flores Ç aproximati adscendentes; calyx stnatus, 
rolla calycem longitudine aequans. 
Scandent and apparently of middling size. Leaf sheaths . . . Leaves 
ther large, non cirriferous, rhachis completely covered all over with a 
:ry dark almost black thin adherent scurf, with acute salient angle and 
it side faces above, armed beneath with robust light coloured, scattered 
■ irregularly confluent robust claws; leaflets in the upper part 90 cm in 
ngth, of the only leaf seen by me closely approximate by their bases in 
ipposite groups of 2—4, with long vacant spaces of rhachis interposed; 
aflets rigid papyraceous, shiny above, duller and slightly paler beneath, 
irrowly lanceolate, tapering from below the middle to a rather narrow 
Use, gradually acuminate above to a subulate not bristly tip, 3-costulatc, 
iid-’costa rather distinct, side costae very slender, few relatively sharp 
icondary nerves smooth on both surfaces, margins also nearly smooth or 
dth few very distant inconspicuous spinules; leaflets ol the lowest group 
n the mentioned portion of leaf) 35-40 cm long, 2,5—3 cm broad, lar- 
I est point a little above their middle; upper leaflets speedy diminishing 
l length and breadth, the two terminal the smallest and quite free a I the 
jase. Male spadix . . . Female spadix apparently elongate, proba- 
ly flagelliferous at is apex with several partial inflorescences, separated 
,y unsheathed or naked portions of the main axis; axis armed irregularly 
in its back with robust, broad, based solitary or more or less confluent 
laws; primary spathes with short basal sheathing part and lacerated, 
ibrous limb; partial inflorescences ascendent, rather, dense, flattened, the 
argest in the specimen 25—30 cm long, 10—12 cm broad, bearing 8-10 
