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deeply grooved. Female spadix with spreading branches, fruiting 

 erect ; calyx cuptilar, not pedicelliform ; petals twice as long. 



Fruit globose, apiculate, f inch in diameter, pale yellow brown ; 

 fruiting calyx nearly flat ; scales deeply channelled, margins 

 narrowly scarious. Seeds subglobose, smooth ; albumen punctate, or 

 the surface ruminate l>y very slender channels, (fig. 7.). 



Fio. 7. — Left : Vertical section of fi-uit of Dcemonorops je^Jikiiisiamts. nia<>-nified. 

 Ri{2:ht : Young- fiiiit of Calamns Griffithianiis. mag-uified (after 

 Martius.) 



Distribution.. — Sikkim, Himalaya, Assam, Khasia Hills, Bengal, 

 Chittagong. 



ByEMONOROPS MANII, Becc. in Hook. Fl. Brit. hid. VI, 46.';, 

 Brandis Ind. Trees 650. 



" Leaflets very many and narrow, naked beneath, setulose on the 

 3 costae above; spadix very long, slender ; peduncle compressed, 

 hardly armed ; outer spathe very long, gradually narrowed into a 

 long, pale, dorsally keeled beak, spines few, large, flat; inner 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Fruiting spadix erect, glabrous ; fruit 

 globose, shortly mammillate; scales pale, slightly channelled, 

 margins pale, tip not discoloiu-ed." Hookei'. 



Habit.'VT. — Andaman Islands. 



