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60 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D. Kurzianus. 
plates illustrating D. grandis, I consider as quite certain only plate CCX, A. 
which exactly corresponds to the specimens examined by me. Griffith’s specimens 
in Kew Herbarium are accompanied by a few loose fruits, which really seem 
to belong to the leafy type-specimen of D. grandis, and these I have 
made use of in the description above. | 
D. grandis appears to differ from allied species, chiefly by its comparatively 
broad, ensiform, thickish and on the lower surface subglaucescent leaflets, which also 
are on the upper surface quite devoid of spinules or bristles, have the mid-costa 
bristly spinulous only from the middle upwards on the under surface and have almost 
smooth margins; the axial parts of the female spadix are shorter and more 
distinctly swollen at the junctures than in allied species; the involucrophorum is 
very short and the areola of the neuter flower orbicular, very conspicuous, and 
tumescent; the spines of the outer spathe are also distinctly callous above their 
base.  JDaemonorops grandis (not of Mart.) Ridley, Mat. Fl. Malay. Penins. ii, 177 
is D. intermedius. Mart. 
PLATE  li.—Daemonorops grandis Mart From a specimen collected by, 
Scortechini (Herb. Beceari.). 
10. Darmonorops Kurzianus Becc. in Hook. f, Fl. Brit, Ind. vi, 463 and in 
Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, ii, 219. 
D. grandis Eus of Mart.) Kurz in dou .Asiat. Soc. Beng., xhii, 2 
(1874), 2 | 
Calamus jw (not of Grift.) Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma, ii, 593. 
js Descriprion.—High scandent and robust, „Sheathed stem as thick as the arm ; 
the canes up to 3 cm. in diameter.  Leaf-sheaths armed with 15-20 mm. long, 
flat, black, seriate spines. Leaves large, about 2 m. long in the pinniferous part; 
petiole short and very stout, armed at the base on the back with a few recurved 
short thorns and several blackish flat spines, and on the upper surface furnished - 
along the margins with short erect thorns which are longer, sharper and rather more 
irregularly crowded and spreading in its basal portion than elsewhere; the rachis 
very stout in its first portion (the only part seen by me), 3°5 cm. wide, 1'5 cm. 
thick, flattish above and spinulous at the sides, rounded beneath, where armed 
along the centre at first with solitary black-tipped claws, that become as usual 
2—3-5-nate higher up and half-whorled on the cirrus. Leaflets numerous, equidistant 
green on both surfaces, alternate or nearly so, 30—60 cm. long and about 3 cm. broad, 
elongate-ensiform, broadest not very far from above the base and thence gradually 
acuminate to the apex; on the upper surface the mid- costa bristly spinulous near 
the apex and with a slender nerve on each side of it furnished with long black 
bristles; margins closely and minutely spinulous. Male spadiz ... Female spadiz erect, 
rigid ; outer spathe eymbiform as in D. melanochaetes and allied species, covered with, 
a fugacious, brown, scurfy tomentum and armed with numerous clustered or almost 
pectinate flat spines of the size and shape of those of the sheaths (Kurz). Fruiting — 
spadiz 35 cm. long (in one specimen), with the lower or basal internodes ot 
the main axis 25 cm. long, 12—14 mm. thick, tumescent in their lower 
half, otherwise very similar in every part to that of D. melanochaetes ; 
branches or m inflorescences 15-16 em. long, in the fruiting stage 
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