82 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. singalanus. 
mm. long pedicel; outer spathe cymbiform, rather acutely two-keeled, almost equally 
narrowing towards both ends, the beak being only 4 cm. in length (in one 
specimen), armed with narrowly laminar, rather short (5-10 mm.), feeble, deflexed, 
often seriate spines; inner spathes (only four) unarmed. Fruiting spadiz nodding ; 
its main axis slender, supporting very few partial inflorescences (four in one 
specimen) that are 6-7 cn. long with few (5-6) short, loose, few-flowered 
spikelets; spathels’  braeteiform, amplectent, produced at one side into a 
triangular acute or acuminate point; involucrophorum sub-obeonie, thick and short, 
callous at its axilla, expanded at its apex into an asymmetrically subcupular and 
unilaterally acute limb;  involuere  eupular, truncate, entire, almost entirely 
immersed in the involucrophorum; areola of the neuter flower depressed, with its 
upper margin conspicuously swollen. Fruiting perianth not quite explanate, the calyx 
forming a very short but distinct pedicel. Fruit globular, 2 cm. ia diameter, 
slightly narrowing towards the base or subturbinate, with a round or slightly 
depressed vertex, and surmounted by a very short conie black beak; scales in 15-10 
longitudinal series, uniformly tawny-brown, with a sharp darker marginal line, very 
deeply channelled along the centre, tip slightly produced, obtuse. Seed globular, 
14-16 mm. in diameter, sometimes slightly depressed, not very strongly ruminate, 
not ventricose on the raphal side; embryo basal, very near the hilum. 
Hasrrat.—The Malayan Peninsula. Collected by Father  Seortechini in the 
district of Perak (Herb. Beccari). 
| OssrRvATIONS.—O f this I have seen two spadices, one in flower, the other in 
fruit, and the apex of a cirriferous leaf, It is certainly related to D. Sepa, 
but it differs in the more slender and nodding spadix, in the outer spathe armed 
with short spines, in the round fruit with fewer larger and deeply channelled 
scales, and in the globular, slightly depressed seed. 
PLATE 27.—Daemonorops Scortechinii Becc. The type specimen in Herb. Beceari 
24, DAEMONOROPS SINGALANUS Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 219, 
Description.—Scandent and of moderate size. Sheathed stem 2-5 cm, in diame- 
ter. Leaf-sheaths slightly gibbous above, covered with a blackish crustaceous scurf 
densely armed, except on a bare area in their upper part on each side at the hs 
of the petiole, with approximate, irregular, deflexed rows of unequal, broadly laminar 
or even acicular, short, or as much as 3 em. long, blackish or schistaceous, bondad 
spines; the mouth obliquely truncate and armed with long erect spines on its anti- 
cous aspect. Leaves of the upper part of the plant 1-2 m. long in the pinniferous 
part (in one specimen ), terminating in a rather slender cirrus which is 60 em. long; 
petiole short (10 cm. long), plano-convex at the base, flattened and sub-biconvex 
higher up, not prickly on its upper surface, its margins not very acute and armed 
with straight solitary spines; the rachis armed beneath with at first solitary, then 
3-5 nate, and on the cirrus half-whorled, very sharp claws; the upper surface js "usa 
throughout with the exception of a few straggling spinules, and is at first convex ah 
broad sides for the insertion of the leaflets, but from the middle upwards the convexit 
is transformed into an acute, salient angle, with flat side faces, Leafiets Goa 
