D. Schmidtianus.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DARMONOROPS. 53 
salient smooth angle and flat side faces in its upper part above, armed underneath 
upwards, as in the terminal cirrus, with 5-nate or digitate, rather slender claws. 
Leaflets apparently rather numerous, equidistant, the upper ones 2-3 cm. apart, 
papyraceous, dull and subconcolorous on both surfaces. The largest among those 
seen by me, are about 30 cm. long and 15 mm. broad, linear-ensiform or very narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, broadest a little below the middle, and thence gradually 
narrowing to a rather acute base and acuminate at the apex into a filamentous 
tip; the mid-costa and one rather distinct nerve on each side of it carrying, on 
the upper surface, remote, shortish, blackish bristles; on the under surfave the mid-costa 
is minutely bristly from the middle upwards; margins rather closely and spreadingly 
bristly-ciliate. Male spadiz erect, subsessile, broadly fusiform, apparently very variable 
in size, 12-40 cm, in length, including the not very long beak; outer spathe 
obsoletely two-keeled, covered very densely with weak or flaccid, very narrowly 
and very thinly laminar, black spines, which are often confluent by their bases and 
sometimes so slender as to become hair-like; second spathe with fewer and shorter 
black spines, that are more numerous along the not prominent keels; third spathe 
with only one longitudinal row of small spines or almost smooth. Partial inflorescences 
densely panicled, cupressiform,  rusty-furfuraceous in every part and with many 
branchlets; the latter carrying 12-13 spikelets in all; the largest of these, 
the lowest, about 2 cm. long, with 5-6 flowers on each side; spathels bracteiform, 
just reaching the rim of the cupular involucre with their bluntish or subacute points.. 
Male flowers oblong, 4-4°5 mm. long, rather obtuse; the corolla a little more than 
twice as long as the calyx. Fruiting perianth explanate, Fruit spailiz shortly 
panicled, erect, rigid; its internodes not tumescent at the junctures; spikelets 2-3 
em, long, their axis at first rusty-furfuraceous, later very slightly scabrid, zig-zag 
sinuous, about 3 em. long, with 3-4 flowers on each side;  spathels bractiform,. 
broadly triangular, acute; involucrophorum short and thick, not or slightly surpassing: 
the apex of its spathel, broadened at the apex into an asymmeirical subcupular- 
limb, not or very slightly callous at its axilla; involucre cupular, short, truncate, 
almost completely immersed in the involucrophorum; areola of the neuter flower 
depressed, slightly tumescent. Fruit spherical, 18-20 mm. ^in diam., tipped by a 
short beak, neatly marked by 18 longitudinal furrows; scales in 18 longitudinal 
series, narrowly and rather deeply channelled along the centre, the furrows 
continuous from one scale to another, of a light, hazel-nut brown colour with lighter 
scarious polished margins, otherwise dull, the tip slightly produced, obtuse, sometimes 
darkish. Seed globular, very slightly flattened laterally, not ventricose on the rapha] 
side, 13 mm. long and a little less thick, very minutely tubercled. Embryo basal, 
pressed slightly to one side. 
HanrrAT.—Siam: Koh Chang; collected by Johs. Schmidt during the Danish 
Siam Expedition, 1899—1900 (Nos, 515 and 624’ in Herb. Mus. Bot. Haun.). 
.  OssERvATIONS.—Like almost all the other species of this group this has no very- 
salient characters by which it may be easily recognized. Its principal diagnostic: 
characters are the following :— 
Upper leaflets of the cirriferous leaves linear-lanceolate, broadest about their 
middle, with remote, shortish, blackish bristles on 3 nerves above; margins spreadingly 
