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scales than in the latter. D. Sepal, D. Scortechini and D. imbellis, as proposed by 
me, appear very closely related species which require more complete material to judge 
of their real specific value. 
Ridley (Mat. ii, 174) has reduced my D. Sepal to D. angustifolius Mart.; I do 
not know on what grounds. 
PLATE 24.—Daemonorops Sepal Bece, From: Seortechini's specimen No. 43€*' in 
Herb. Beccari. ET 
21. DAEMONOROPS PSEUDO-SEPAL Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 465, and in 
Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 220; Ridley, Mat. Fl. Malay. Penins. ii, 180. 
DzscmrPrION.—Seandent, 3-5 m. high and rather slender.  Sheathed stem 13-17 
mm. in diameter,  Leaf-sheaths rather elongate, fugaciously furfuraceous and ultimately 
with an almost polished surface, obseurely costulate longitudinally, or with some 
slightly raised longitudinal ridges, armed not densely with very unequal, sometimes 
very long (3-5 em.) flat, very elastic, more or less confluent and rather remotely 
seriate, sehistacous spines; the mouth almost naked. Leaves of the upper and fertile 
part of the plant apparently about 1 m. long in the pinniferous part; petiole elongate, 
(35-48 cm. in length), 8-10 mm. in width, depressedly plano-convex at the base. 
flattened sub-biconvex above; the margins acute and with short, straight, scattered 
{sometimes confluent and divergent) spines except at the base, where they are longer 
and more approximate; smooth on the upper surface and also on the lower along 
the centre or only very sparingly clawed there towards its apex; rachis with small 
and solitary claws along the centre line of the lower surface (the terminal part not 
seen by me), quite smooth on the upper with the usual salient angle. Leaflets 
comparatively verv numerous, equidistant, and rather remotely set (3-5 cm. apart); 
thinly papyraceous, green on both surfaces, linear-ensiform, 35 em. in length, 14-16 
mm. in width, with the mid-costa acute, not or very slightly bristly only near its 
apex and with one slender nerve on each side of it carrying very few, short bristles 
from the middle upwards; on the lower surface the mid-costa alone sparingly, inter- 
ruptedly and finely bristly-spinulous; transverse veinlets minute, not very distinct; 
margins minutely and appressedly spinulous only from the middle upwards. Male 
spadiz ss Female spadiz inserted near the mouth of its sheath and consequently 
very far above the axilla of the leaf immediately under it, short, 12-15 cm. long 
without the spathes), erect even when in fruit, supported by a short (10-15 mm, 
long) and rather stout (7 m. broad), flattened, prickly, basal part, with very few 
(8-4), very slightly branched and very few-flowered partial inflorescences, the spikelets 
being reduced to carrying only 2-4 flowers; the main axis rigid and comparatively 
thick; the internode between the insertion of the first and second spathe about 2 
em. long, 7 mm. wide, slightly flattened; secondary and tertiary spathes  bractei- 
form, elongate-triangular, acuminate; spathels bracteiform, amplectent, produced at one 
side into a triangular, acute or acuminate limb; involucrophorum short and thick, 
sub-obconical, callous at its axilla, expanded at its apex into an asymmetrically 
subcupular and unilaterally acute limb; involucre cupular, truncate, entire, almost 
completely immersed in the involucrophorum ; areola of the neuter flower distinctly 
