branches divearicate, comparatively short, with a paix of 
stout retrorse spines along the upper side and about 1 ineh 
from the point of branching, fraquently with a Single Spine 
on the same Bide 2 inches further up; Stems and twigs 
Spineless; leaves subcoriaceous, horizontal or descending, 
flat, deep green above, paler beneath; inflorescence terminal, 
Ssuberest, pale green even the corolla tube, sweebly fragrant, 
style and stigma creamy white, ovary apex creamy yellow; 
the corolla segments rotately spreading, white, “Cericeri." 
ox “*keri-keri.”™ Brooks Point, February, 191i. 
L26624 Oncosperme filementosa Sim, Slender erect 
and gracefully standing irees of all heights in the sane 
dense eluster of « dozen or more in wet Soil of Bwampy woods 
bordering or mixed with some Stregezling mangle-wood species; 
stem terete, 6 inches thick, the basal 10 to 15 feet heavily 
beset with Spine®, aS high aS cocoe-nuts trees wood hard 
and brittle, black, the middle portion pithy, odorless and 
tasteless; bark dull brown, grey in the upper part, yeliowish 
when young; spines cn the stem 3 inches long, bleck, flattened, 
descending, thickened at their bases; Stems ringed every 8 
inches from the middle to the top and Smooth; ¢rown of 
leaves spreading; rings beneath the sheath conspicuous 1/2 
ineh apart and spinescent; terminal wood yellowish, soft, 
with a Specialized fibrous centre] mass; sheaths 3 feet 
long, 9 inches thick, or 3 times ae thick a8 the atem 
immediately beneath it, yellowish green and provided with 
black spines; ligule 2 inches long, leather brown and smooth; 
fronds 9 feet long, horizontally ®preading and recurved, 
Leaflet bearing from the base; rachis flattened below the 
middle, 2 inches wide at the base, green above, seurty 
brown and Spinescent toward the bebe; leaflets pendant, 
tough, Shining dark green on the upper Side, Slightly paler 
beneath, the Sides usuaily folded upon the lower Side, the 
basal leaflets linear and hanging like shreds; inflorescence 
fragrant, from below the sheath, the young ones enclosed 
in a thick sheath panicle 2 feet long and hanging; peduncle 
divaricate, 6 inches long, 4 inches wide at the bese which 
has 8 paix of stout auricles. “‘anibunge" Flowers light 
yellow except the creany white anthers, Brooks Point, 
Yareh, 1911. — 
12663. Daemonerops curranii Bees, Leeping and 
Climbing upon thickets and trees of a very humid place in 
wet soil of woods bordering swamps at 20 feet altitude; 
stem rigid, 3/4 inch thick, derk green, jointed every 7 
inches; leafy portion 2 inches thick; leeves horizontal 
end recurved, 8 fect long, rather closely set; sheaths 
composed of thiek spinescent shoulder of the petiole base, 
yellowish green; the peduncle (petiole) proper nearly 1 
foot long, 11/2 ineh wide st the base, flattened, 
Spinescent on both sides, those on the lewer with beckwardly 
hooked Spines; the rachie of the leaf 1 yard long, kooked, 
recurved; leaflets descending or pendant, pale or yellowish 

