. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . gener-ally more deeply split by age, attached to the rhachis by a narrowbase, having here the margins strongly reduplicate, green on bothsurfaces, on the lower rather densely sprinkled with very numerous,very small dots visible under a strong lens ; midrib strong, veryprominent above, covered below by an almost continuous line ofelongate chaffy scales j secondary nerves 2-3 on each side of themidrib; tertiary nerves very numerous and not very prominent;margins acute, not or very slightly thickened; transverse veinletsobsolete. Intermediate leaf
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . gener-ally more deeply split by age, attached to the rhachis by a narrowbase, having here the margins strongly reduplicate, green on bothsurfaces, on the lower rather densely sprinkled with very numerous,very small dots visible under a strong lens ; midrib strong, veryprominent above, covered below by an almost continuous line ofelongate chaffy scales j secondary nerves 2-3 on each side of themidrib; tertiary nerves very numerous and not very prominent;margins acute, not or very slightly thickened; transverse veinletsobsolete. Intermediate leaflets 2^ to 3| feet long and If to If inchbroad. Spathes 2, the exterior one tubular, pervious at its upper end,considerably shorter than the interior one, which completely envelopsthe spadix before the anthesis, and is at that time flattened-fusiformand biconvex, later deciduous. Of. figure 30.—Spadices 3-4 at the (1). We follow almost word for word the description given by Beccari, L c. 4 678 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HLST. SOCIETY, Vol. Fig. 30.—To the right: Spadix of Oreodoxa regia enclosed inthe the left: The same spadix after removal of thespathes. same time, erect when not jei open, at the base of the lowest leafsheath, spreading when in j&ower, with a very short, broad peduncu-lar base, twice branched; primary branches conspicuously swollen attheir bases and divided into several alternate flowering branchlets,which are slender, terete, 3/6 to 5/6 foot long or shorter, more orless sinuous between the flowers.—Flowers light coloured,ternate almost to the end of the branchlets, inserted on verysuperficial flat orbicular pulvinuli. Male flowers considerablylarger than the female, irregularly ovoid, obtuse, 1/5 to 1/4inch long; calyx very small, with slightly imbricate, scarious,subpellucid, subdeltoid, obtuse or acute, and more or less carinatesepals ; petals considerably longer than the sepals, concave, thinlypergamentaceous, irregularly ovate-oblong
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