64 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. stenophyllus 
PLATE 13.—Daemonorops hygrophilus Mart, From a specimen collected by 
Seortechini at Perak, (Herb. Beccari). 
13. DAEMONOROPS sTENOPHYLLUs Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 220, 
Description.—Scandent. Leaf-sheaths 2-5 cm. in diameter; gibbous-plicate above, 
more or less covered with a tobacco-coloured adherent scurf, armed not very densely 
with scattered, solitary or subseriate and confluent, very unequal but usually large 
and broadly laminar, 1-2 cm. long, spreading or deflexed brown-schistaceous spines 
the mouth obliquely truncate, fringed with a few scattered, erect, long spines. Leaves. 
elongate, 1°6 m. long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a slender, 80 cm. 
lovg, clawed cirrus (in one specimen); petiole very short or almost obsolete; the rachis 
in its first portion is flattish and not or very slightly prickly on the upper surface 
which in the intermediate portion is convex with an obtuse, more or less spinulous 
angle; only towards the apex' the salient angle is acute and smooth; on the under; 
surface the rachis is convex, smooth or sparingly armed with claws that are solitary, 
a long way up and then become ternate, and finally 5-nate and half-whorled on the 
cirrus, Leaflets numerous (about 80 pairs in one specimen), equidistant, about 2 cm, 
apart, papyraceous, green on both surfaces, linear, very narrow, 25-35 em. long, 
9-12 mm. broad, gradually acuminate to a very slender and long filamentous 
tip, and narrowing also gradually from below the middle downwards to a rather 
acute base which is distinctly callous below, in the small hollow formed beneath; by 
the folding of the limb; sub-tricostulate, or with the mid-costa on the upper surface 
acute, bristly spinulous only near the apex and with one rather distinct nerve on each 
side of it furnished with a few blackish, short bristles; on the lower surface the mid- 
costa very sparingly bristly or quite naked; margins almost smooth, or very remotely, 
minutely and appressedly spinulous. Female spadiz erect, sessile or very nearly so, 
spinous at its base, ventricose-fusiform before flowering and rather suddenly narrow- 
ing into a beak about as long as the body, 30-35 cm. long, including the beak, with 
5-6 very approximate partial inflorescences ; outer spathe thinly but firmly coriaceous, 
deeply cymbiform, acutely two-keeled, thinly and more or less partially covered with 
the same indumentum as the sheaths, rather acutely two-keeled, armed with not many 
but large, broadly laminar, often deeply lacinate, scattered or slightly confluent, 
deflexed, 2-4 cm. long spines; second spathe also rather firm, more or less spinulous 
only near the apex, the others unarmed; axial parts of the spadix sparingly sprinkled 
with rusty  furfuraceous scales; partial infloresences 5-8 cm. long; the largest 
spikelets, the lowest, 3-4 cm. long with 4—5 flowers on each side; spathels bracteiform, — 
amplectent, extended at one side into a broadly triangular acute point about as 
long as the involucrophorum; the latter obsoletely angular, short, 2-3 mm. long, 
sub-obconic, not callous at its axilla, very appressed to the axis, expanded at its 
apex into an obliquely shallowly subcupular limb, which is produced externally into 
a triangular acute point, the latter acutely keeled on the back and usually surpassing 
the margin of the involucre; the other side of the involucrophorum subtends the 
neuter flower; involucre shallowly cupular, truncate, rather distinctly bidentate on 
the side of the neuter flower, and almost completely immersed in the involu- 
crophorum; areola of the neuter flower sharply bordered with a basilar, horizontal 
