BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. c5 
DAEMONOROPS xr. 
Blume in Schultes Syst. Veg. vii, 1333, and Rumphia ii, pls. 131 to 137 and 
ii, 2, pls. 158 to 145, 163B.; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 203; Endl. Gen, n. 1736; 
Kunth 1, Enum. Pl. iiij 2(4; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iiij 81; Becc. and Hook. f. in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 462; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind., ii, 218; Ridley, 
Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 171, 
Calami sp. Auct. pl. 
Usually slender, climbing, more or less spinose or aculeate, polycarpic palms, never 
totally unarmed, rarely tufted or with an erect stem, never bearing terminal 
inflorescences. Leaves alternate, always pinnate, those of the upper part of the adult 
plant always cirriferous, the radical or those of young plants non-cirriferous 
Leaflets almost always narrow und elongate, rarely broadly lanceolate or oblong, never 
ovate or rhomboidal, with 1 or 3—very rarely more—bristly costae, always converging 
to an acuminate point, straight, never sigmoid. Siem with long internodes, 
covered at first with sheaths forming the basal portion of the leaves.  Leef-sheaths 
always complete and cylindraceous, very rarely shortly open at the apex on the 
ventral side, never flagelliferous. crea usually short, rarely more or less elongate and 
hispid, or produced into two long appendages at the sides of the petiole. Spadices 
dioecious, never much elongated or flagelliform, always devoid of spines on the axial 
parts above the first spathe; never prolonged at the apex into a cirrus; before 
flowering usually fusiform or cylindraceous. Spathes at first eymbiform or cylindraceous, 
more or less covered externally with straight, never clawed spines; after the authesis 
entirely split longitudinally or open flat and often deciduous; secondary spathes with 
an inconspicuous very short or subinfundibuliform limb. Male spadiz in flower densely 
panicled in the section Cymbospatha ; elongated, narrow and strict in Piptospatha, 
rarely diffuse. Male spikelets very seldom comb-like, usually with alternate sub-bifarious 
flowers, furnished with very small scale-ike spathels and inconspicuous involucres. 
Male flowers solitary at every spathel; the calyx small, subcupular and three-dentate 
or even cylindraceous; corolla coriaceous, always considerably longer than the calyx, 
divided almost to the base into 3 segments; stamens 6. Female spodiz panicled, often 
dense, or more or less diffuse; spikelets with the female flowers always accom- 
panied by a sterile or neuter one, almost always with short annular spathels, very 
seldom infundibuliform. Jnvolucrophorum pedicelliform, truncate and almost without a 
limb, and bearing the involucre at its summit. Jnvolucre usually truncate or less 
often cupular. Areola of the neuler flower almost always distinct. Female flowers 
always a good deal larger than the male ones, ovoid; the calyx truncate or superficially 
3-dentate ; the corolla about twice ss long as the calyx, its segments coriaceous; 
staminodes forming a cup crowned by 6 rudimentary anthers ; ovary clothed with 
retrorse scales, 3-celled, with very thin, membranous and speedly obliterated 
dissepiments; style short or conical; stigmas 3, usually rather large, thickly subulate and 
internally lamellose; ovules 3, anatropous, basilar, erect. Neuter flowers usually smaller 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., CaLcurTA, Vor. XII. 
