list of figures - Terry Sunderland

Bot. Appl. 17: 896 (1936); Renier in Fl. du Kwango 1: 82 (1948); Walker & Sillans in
Plantes Utilès du Gabon 331: (1961); Letouzey in Adan. 18(3): 314 (1978); Tuley in
Palms of Africa 45: (1995).
Calamus cabrae De Wild. & Th. Dur. in Matér. pour la Fl. de Congo 5: 32 (1897);
Baudon in Rev. de Bot. Appl. 4: 595 (1924); Type: DR Congo, Mayombe, Cabra s.n.
(holotype BR!).
E. rhomboidea Burr. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 747 (1942);
synon. nov. Type: Angola, Nkanda Mbaku, Gossweiler 10086 (holotype B†; isotype
K!).
E. suborbicularis Burr. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 747 (1942);
synon. nov. Type: Angola, Nkanda Mbaku, Gossweiler 10088 (holotype B†; isotype
K!).
Clustering moderate palm climbing to 50 m, more commonly 20-30 m. Stems ±
circular in cross-section, without sheaths 10-15 mm in diameter, with to 25 mm;
internodes 10-15 cm long. Leaf sheath longitudinally striate, sparsely to moderately
armed with black caducous indumentum, particularly concentrated on the apex of the
sheath; ocrea entire, somewhat saddle-shaped, with 1-1.5 cm rounded lobe adaxial to
the leaf; knee narrow, linear, abrupt, up to 2.5 cm long. Leaves sessile, up to 1.5-2 m
long; rachis up to 1 m long, abaxially rounded, adaxially flattened or slightly convex,
becoming trapezoid then rounded in cross-section distally, with sparse to moderate
black caducous indumentum below, armed along the margins with inequidistant
reflexed, bulbous-based, black-tipped spines, becoming more sparsely armed distally;
cirrus up to 1 m long, armed as the rachis proximally, becoming unarmed distally;
leaflets up to 8-10 on each side of the rachis, obovate to trapeziform, narrowly
contracted at the base, irregularly and broadly praemorse at apex, 7-16 cm long x 4-9
cm broad at the widest point, concolorous, somewhat coriaceous, with 8 or more main
veins radiating from base, armed along the margins with stout forward and (rarely)
reverse-facing angular spines, praemorse apex somewhat ciliate-spiny; lowermost
leaflets smaller than the rest, erect or reflexed and laxly swept back across the sheath;
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