BECCARIL THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 27 
SEcrioN  II.— PriPTOSPATHA. 
elongated, narrowly cylindraceous before flowering, then more 
Spadix {g and $) 
Outer spathe not completely enclosing the inner ones 
or less diffusedly branched. 
and not contracted at the apex into an elongated heak.’ 
A. Leaf-sheaths armed with isolated or confluent spines, not with annular spiculiferous 
crests. Primary spathes of male and female spadices coriaceous, tubular before the 
anthesis, afterwards open flat. Male flowering panicle very narrow, strict, cupressiform. 
1. Spathes narrow and long, produced at the apex into a tail-like 
bristly tip; the inner ones usually shortly protruding beyond the 
outermost ; the latter covered with slender acicular spines. (In 
D. Loherianus the outer spathe is a good deal shorter than the 
others, as in the following group.) Mouth of the leaf-sheaths not 
armed with unusually long erect spines. 
32. D. macropterus. 33. D. Sarasinorum. 34, D. robustus. 35. D. 
lamprolepis, 36. D. niger. 37. D. Loherianus. 
2. Spathes thickly coriaceous, the outermost usually armed with short, 
stout, digitate spines, and shorter than the inner ones, which gradually 
and conspicuously rise above the ones below. (In D. Motley? and 
D. didymophyllus the inner spathes very shortly protrude beyond 
the outer ones.) ; 
+ Mouth of the leaf-sheaths smooth or armed with not very 
long scattered spines pointing variously. 
© Fruit resiniferous (very slightly in D. gracilipes). 
38. D. Draco. 39. D. Draconcellus. 40. D. micra- 
canthus. 41. D. propinquus. 42. D. ruber. 
43. D. mattanensis. 44. D.gracilipes. 45. D. 
Motleyi. 46. D. | didymophyllus. 47. D. 
sparsiflorus (Nos. 46 and especially 47 somewhat 
aberrant in the group). 
Oo Fruit not resiniferous. 
48. D. leptonus. 49. D. oxycarpus. 
++ Mouth of the leaf-sheaths usually armed with long flat and 
broad erect spines. Fruit never resiniferous. 
© Seed with an inconspicuous punctiform superficial chalaza. 
50. D. microstachys. 51. OD. Hystrix- 52. D. 
elongatus. 53. D. Curranii. 54. D. oblongus. 
55. D. Korthalsii, 56. D. Riedelianus. 57. D 
Kunstlerii. 58. D. vagans. 59. D. depres 
siusculus. 60. ‘D. Gaudichaudii. 67. D 
ochrolepis. 62. D. Clemensianus. 
© Seed with a deep pit-like chalaza. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD., CALCUTTA, Vor. XII. 
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