BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 41 
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 
DAEMONOROPS BL. 
1, Darwowonors Jxnxinsianus Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 397, t. z xviii, f, 
v and t. z xxi, f.l aud t. z xxii f., xi and expl of the plates in 
Intr. p. clxiii; Walp. Ann. iii, 475 and v, 827; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi. 462; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, ii, 218. 
Calamus Jenkinsianus Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 81, and Palms 
Brit. Ind, 89 (excl. fruit and t. clxxxvi, A, f. III = C. Fiagellum) ; 
T. Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi, (1869) 11; H. Wendl. in Kerch, 
Palms. 236, 
Calamus nutantilorus Griff. in Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 79, and Palms Brit. 
lnd., 88, f. ceviii. 
Daemonorops nutantylorus Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 326; Walp. Ann. iii 
474, and v, 827. 
Calamus extensus Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 777? 
H 
Descriprion.—High scandent, rather large. Sheathed stem 3—4 cm., the canes 
about 1:5-2-5 cm. in diameter; the internodes 15-20 cm. long, obsoletely longitu- 
dinally siriate and with a vernicose surface. Leaf-sheaths (of the upper cirriferous 
leaves) gibbous above, more or less covered with a brown furfuraceous coating, armed, 
more or less densely, with thinly laminar, elastic, chestnut-brown or blackish, 3-4 em. 
long, scattered, or confluent and seriate, spreading or deflexed, sometimes laciniate 
spines, mixed with many others smaller and more slender. Radical leaves not 
cirriferous, with their sheath gradually narrowing into the petiole; the latter 
elongate and deeply channelled above. Leaves of the upper part of the plant 
about 2 m, long in the pinniferous part, and terminating in a long and robust, 
strongly clawed cirrus; petiole furfuraceous at first, later glabrous, 10-20 em. long, 
about 15 mm. broad, flat or slightly convex above, where more or less prickly 
at least near the margins; convex beneath where also more or less sparsely armed 
(at least near the margins) with, irregular, short, straight spines and furnished also 
along the centre of the dorsum with small solitary remote claws, which become 
stronger, closer, 2-3-nate on the rachis, and finally 5-nate or 4-2-whorled on the 
cirrus; in the intermediate portion, the rachis is roundish or obsoletely angular, 
sparsely prickly on its upper surface, which only near its apex is naked and 
convex-bifacial ; leaflets numerous, closely set, equidistant, alternate or sub-opposite, 
papyraceous, subconcolorous on both surfaces, very narrowly ensiform, very gradually 
acuminate to a subulate and setiform point, and in the lower part rather suddenly 
narrowing towards an acute base; on the upper surface the mid-costa is slender 
but acute and sprinkled from the middle upwards with long brown bristles; on 
each side of the mid-ccsta there is usually one, but occasionally two, rather 
slender nerves that are also equally bristly from near their base at distances of 
ANN. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carcutta, Vor. XII. 
