Dcemonorops.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 463 



Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 81 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 89 (excl. fruit. & t. 185 A. f. 3 (=0. 

 Flagellum), T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 11. C. nntantiflorus, 

 Griff, in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 79 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 88, t. 208. 



The SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, BENGAL and CHITTA- 

 GONG. 



Stem very stout, with the sheaths If in. diam., young parts grey-pubescent. 

 Leaves large; leaflets 2 ft. by | f in. ; petiole 5-6 in. ; spines of rachis many, short, 

 scattered; of sheath 1 1-g- in. long. Outer spathe 12 ft., spines -5 f- in.; inner 12 

 18 in., lanceolate, long acuminate, quite smooth. Male spadix thyrsiform, dense- 

 fid. ; calyx oblong, 3-toothed, and petals and bracts deeply grooved. Fern, spadix with 

 spreading branches, fruiting erect ; calyx cupular, not pedicellifbrm ; petals twice as 

 long. Fruit^ in. diam., pale yellow brown ; scales deeply channelled, margins narrowly 

 scarious. Seed subglobose, smooth ; albumen punctate, or the surface ruminate by Very 

 slender channels. 



2. D. BXanii, Becc. mss. ; leaflets very many and narrow naked be- 

 neath 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 acumi- 

 nate, fruiting spadix erect glabrous, fruit globose sbortly mammillate scales 

 pale slightly channelled margins pale, tip not discoloured. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS., E. H. Man. 



Allied to C. Jenkinsianus. I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



3. D. Xurzianus ; stem and petioles very stout, leaflets very many 

 equidistant elongate ensiform acuminate margins minutely aculeolate, 

 costse 3-5 naked or with a few long bristles above, rachis semi-terete very 

 stout flat above with short scattered spines on the margins, outer spathe 

 with seriate spines inner linear, fruiting spadix erect branches very stout, 

 fruiting calyx explanate, fruit globose very shortly beaked pale yellowish. 

 D. grandis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng, xliii. ii. 208 (not of Mart.). 

 Calamus grandis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 523 (not of Griffith}. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



Stem with the sheath as thick as the arm. Leaves shortly petioled ; leaflets 

 1-2 ft. by 1-lj in., tips ciliate ; rachis enormously stout, 1^ in. diam., dprsally 

 convex and unarmed, ending in a clawed flagellum ; petiole armed below with long 

 flat and short recurved spines; sheath with vvhorled spines. Outer spathe cymbi- 

 form, scurfy, inner unarmed. Fruit -| in. diam., pale brownish yellow, scales deeply 

 channelled, margins brownish with a very narrow scarious edge ; fruiting calyx with a 

 very short base and broad striate lobes j petals twice as long, striate. Seed sub- 

 compressed, albumen as in C Jenkinsianus. I have seen only a portion of a leaf with 

 the enormous rachis described above, imperfect leaflets, and a very old fern, spadix 

 with fruit. J.D.H. 



4. D. g-randis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 327, t. 173 ; leaves and 

 leaflets as in D. Kurzianus, but pale and subglaucous, costee beneath naked 

 or sparsely ciliate as are the margins, spathe as in D. Kurzianus, calyx 

 subentire villously ciliate, fruit globose. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 88 ; 

 Teysm. ft Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 74; Walp. Ann. iii. 476, v. 827. 

 Calamus grandis, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 84 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 

 91, t. 210 A (?B et C)., t. 216, f. iii. Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 28. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERAE", Scortechini. 



Stem very stout, scandent, sheaths 2 in. diam. Leaves 15-16 ft. ; leaflets 

 18-20 by 1^ in. ; petiole about 2 ft. Lower spathes 14-15 in. long, inner in- 

 cluded, unarmed, rustily scurfy. Male spadix 15-18 in., decompound, spikes about 



