BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 85 
++ Not scandent, 
Fruit very slightly resiniferous. Leaflets sub-un- 
equidistant, but not regularly geminate. 
44, D. gracilipes. 
OO Leaflets distinctly grouped or geminate. 
Outer spathe elongate-fusiform, almost entirely enclosing 
the inner ones, Fruit ovoid with a broad base 
abundantly resiniferous. 
45. D. Motleyi. 
Spathes deeply and broadly spoon-shaped, each slightly 
protruding beyond that immediately below. Fruit 
broadly ovoid, slightly resiniferous. 
46. D. didymophyllus. 
§ § Female spikelets with spirally set flowers. 
Leaflets equidistant, linear, with bristles on 3 nerves above 
and only on the mid-costa beneath. Female flowers 
with a very slender involucrophorum. (A very peculiar 
species of doubtful position, its fruit being unknown.) 
47. D. sparsiflorus. 
^ * Fruit not resiniferous. 
Leaf-sheaths woody, very hard, armed with robust rather short spines. 
Fruit small, ovoid-elliptical with a round base, 
48. D. leptopus. 
 Leaf-sheaths armed with thinly laminar, sub-foliaceous, laciniate votis 
Fruit P ind elliptical, acute at both ends. 
49. D. oxycarpus. 
(^ Mouth of the leaf-sheaths more or less armed with flat long erect spines. 
Fruit never resiniferous. 
* Fruit ovoid or oblong. 
+ Stem short, erect.’ 
Spadix a small dense panicle on a slender, very long, peduncular part. 
50. D. microstachys. 
t* Stem scandent. 
§ Fruit elongate ovoid, or globular-ovoid. | ` 
Leaflets equidistant, closely ciliate on 5 nerves beneath. Scales 
in 15 series. 
8L D. Hystrix. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Gard., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
