Trunk very short, 2-3 cm. thick, closely ringed: leaves about 3, erect, pinnate, somewhat mnore than 1 m. long, sheath short and tubular; petiole 40-50 cm. long; pinnae or segments 20-25 on either side the rachis, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower margin decurrent, the large ones 30 cm. long and 2-2.5 cm. broad, with 5 nerves and those on lower surface rough: pistillate spadix infrafoliar, long-peduncled and spreading with 7 tubular spathes; rachis about 10 cm. long, much branched, the branches or rachillae 60-70, filiform and flexuose, much spreading, 4-to 7-flowered, the large flowers yellow-green, calyx very short, petals erect and convolute-imbricate.
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