26 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
or at least more slender than the female ones, 
6, usually sterile stamens and an abortive ovary. Fruit gio 
or less distinctly beaked and usually crowned by the recurved stigmas ; pericarp thin, 
crustaceous, clothed with appressed, deflexed, imbricating, polished, hard scales. Seed 
solitary, globular or somewhat depressed, usually enveloped by 2 sweet, acidulous or 
mucilagineous integument, always more or less finely pitted ; albumen deeply ruminated, 
its chalazal fovea usually indistinct and punctiform, sometimes represented by a narrow 
furrow, very seldom pit-like. Hmbryo always basal. 
Geographical — distribution. —North-East India, Burma and Malayan Peninsula, 
Andamans, Malayan Archipelago, Siam, Cochin-China, Lower China, Philippines, Aru 
Islands. 
with well formed calyx and corolla and 
bose, ovoid or ellipsoid, more 
CONSPECTUS OF THE SPECIES ACCORDING TO THEIR REAL OR 
PRESUMED NATURAL AFFINITIES. 
Section I.— CyMBOSPATHA. 
Spadix (4 and ¢) short, more or less fusiform and beaked before flowering, 
never much elongated; fruit-spadix short, densely paniculate; spathes papyraceous, 
the outermost inflated-ventricose, completely enwrapping the inner ones, concave- 
cymbiform when open, distinctly beaked, always more or less covered with laminar 
or slender and acicular spines. 
* Leaf-sheaths not furnished with a distinct ocrea at their apex. 
A. Stem seandeni. 
7. D. Jenhinsianus. 2. D. Manii. 3. D. melanochaetes. 4. D. aruensis 
5. D. palembanicus. 6. D. Sehmidtianus. 7. D. Pierreanus. 
8. D. Margaritae. 9. D. grandis. 10. D. Kurzianus. 77. D. 
malaccensis. 12. D. hygrophylus. 18. D. stenophyllus. 
74. D- fissus. 15. D. Binnendijkii. 16. D. angustifolius. 
77. D. trichrous. 18. D. intermedius. 19. D. Treubianus. 
20. D. Sepal. 21. D. pseudo-sepal. 22. D. imbellis. 23. D. 
Scortechinii. 24. D. singalanus. 
B. Stem erect. 
25. D. monticolus. 26. D. Lewisianus. 27. D. petiolans. 28. D. 
microthamnus. 29. D. tabacinus. 30. D. calicarpus. 
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**(Anomalous) Ocrea transformed into two very long stipuliform appendages at 
the sides of the petiole. 
31. D. ursinus. 
