54 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D. Pjerreanus. 
and closely ciliate. Spadices erect, subsessile, broadly fusiform and shortly beaked - 
before flowering; outer spathe densely armed with long, very slender, flexible, brittle, 
often criniform spines; second and third spathe also more or less armed; the beak less 
than half the entire length of the body. Fruit spadix with internodes not swollen at 
the junctures; secondary spathes with a very short, not acuminate limb; involucropho- 
rum very short and thick, about as long as its corresponding spathel; involucre almost 
completely immersed in the involucrophorum; areola of the neuter flower depressed, 
slightly tumescent. Fruit spherical, 18-20 mm, in diameter, with 18 narrow continuous 
longitudinal furrows. Seed globular, slightly longer thau thick. 
The leaflets gradually narrowing to a rather acute base easily distinguish 
D, Schmidtionvs from D. Pierreanus ot Cochin-China and D. Margaritae of Hong-Kong, 
which have narrow leaflets with margins parallel from a little above the base, and 
the blade suddenly doubled backward at their insertion. 
it seems related to D. Jenkinsianus and D. melanochaetes, but distinguishable from 
deo: as from tbe other forms of the group, by its comparatively shortly beaked 
Pirate 7.—Daemonorops Schmidtianus Bece. 
Large male spadix, fruit-spadix and portion of a leaf with 3 leaflets (from 
No. 515, Danish Siam Expedition) Portion of a cirriferous leaf, a spadix showing its 
second spathe the first wanting, very small female spadix (from No. 624°, Danish 
Siam Expedition.) 
7. DarwoNoRoPs PrERREANUS Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 220. 
_ Descriprion.—Scandent ? Stem . . . Leaves . . . Fruil-spadiz 20-30 cm. 
long, rigid, panicled thyrsoid, glabrous (when bearing mature fruit) on its axial parts, 
with 4-5 strict partial inflorescences ; the internodes 3-4 cm. long, rigid and thick, 
somewhat swollen in their lower part; partial inflorescences 8-10 cm. long, carrying 
about 10 spikelets; third spathe braceiform, amplectent, extended at one side into 
a broadly triangular acute limb; spikelets 3-6 cm. long, the lower ones, the 
largest, with 3-7 distichous, rather remote flowers on each side; their axis 
strongly zig-zag sinuous, glabrous, rather thick and more or less angular;  spathels 
very short, with an annular truncate limb extended at one side into a very short 
triangular acute point; involucrophorum distinctly pedicelliform and comparatively 
elongate 2-5 mm. in length), obsoletely angular, sub-obeonie, slightly callous at its 
axilla, with an obliquely and shallowly cupular and unilaterally acute limb, much 
longer than its own spathel; involucre slightly exceeding the involucrophorum, not 
very deeply cupular, truncate, entire or very obsoletely 3-denticulate ; areola of the 
neuter flower very distinct, with a strongly swollen, semi-circular upper margin, 
Neuter flowers 5 mm. long, slender; the calyx cylindrical, superficially 3-toothed ; 
the corolla twice as long as the calyx. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit spherical, 
16-17 mm. in diameter, tipped by a rather thick mucro; scales in 18 series, finely 
channelled along the centre, brown, yellowish or of a light cinnamon-brown 
or hazel-nut colour, rather glossy, with a slightly darker, sometimes obliterate intra- 
marginal line and a light, distinctly erosely-ciliate margin, the apex subacute 
sometimes darkish. Seed globular, slightly broader than long or sub-reniform, and 
also very slightly laterally compressed; albumen deeply ruminated; embryo basal. 
