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38 Leaflets very few (2 pairs only in one specimen) 
large, lanceolate, with 3—8 slender costae, smooth 
on both surfaces. 
/4. D. macrophyllus. 
(^) Leaf-sheaths furnished with simple oblique, membranous, sjinulose crests. 
a. Leaflets distinctly grouped. 
Primary spathes with tufts of bristles on two dorsal carinae. Male 
spikelets pectinate. The axis of the ? spikelets strongly sinuous. 
75, D. geniculatus. 
6, Leaflets equidistant. 
* Leaf-sheaths furnished with a few short simple spiculiferous crests 
On the ventral side, 
Outer spathe papyraceous, unarmed. Male spikelets pectinate. 
76. D. cristatus. 
** Leafsheaths furnished with several, simple, oblique, semi-circular, 
annular spiculiferous crests. 
Outer spathe furnished with long seriate hairs on the back. 
Female spadix elongate, panicled, much branched. Petiole armed 
with extraordinarily long spines at the sides. 
77. D. acanthobolus. 
Outer spathe smooth. Female spadix composed of a very short 
few-branched panicle on a long slender peduncular part. 
78. D, scapigerus. 
C. Leaf-sheaths armed with isolated or confluent spines, not with annular crests, 
Spadix (g and 9) loosely paniculate when in flower.  Spathes elongate- 
lanceolate when open, thinly coriaceous; the outer one with two dorsal 
smooth or spinulose keels, 
I. Spathels of the female spikelets bracteiform, with a very short tubular 
part, or very shortly and broadly infundibuliform, Involucrophorum — 
obconic, more or less pedicelliform, 
o. Leaflets very distinctly grouped into several remote 
Peduncular part of the spadix prickly at the sides, 
Fruit spherical, with finely fringed scales. 
groups. 
79. D. periacanthus. 
