D. singalanus. ) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 83 
(about 60 on each side) equidistant, 15—20 mm. apart, green and rather dull, 
slightly paler beneath, thinly papyraceous but rather firm in texture, linear-lanceolate, 
the largest those a little above the base, 26-27 cm, long, 12-16 mm. wide, 
broadest about the middle and thence gradually narrowing to an acute base and to a 
subulate and bristly tip, rather distinctly 3-costulate on the upper surface, with the 
mid-costa very sharp and a distinct secondary nerve on each side of it, all three 
but especially the side ones carrying very slender rather long bristles on the lower 
surface; the mid-costa above very finely and closely  bristly-spinulous ; the margins i 
closely finely and spreadingly ciliate. Spadices distinctiy supra-axillary, nodding, 
supported by a very slender, flattened, prickly pedicellar part. Male spadis elongate- 
fusiform before flowering, very gradually narrowing into a slender beak one-third 
the length of the body, the whole length of the spadix being 35 cm. without the 
peduncular part; the latter 4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide; outer spathe cymbiform-fusi- 
form, very gradually narrowing to the base where, more than upwards, rather acutely 
two-keeled, sparingly armed between the keels with scattered, very slender, long, 
acicular spines, naked on the very broad margins and almost smooth on the upper 
part and on the entire beak; the other spathes quite unarmed; the axial parts of the 
spadix almost glabrous, even when stil enveloped by the spathes; the internode 
between the first and second spathe slender, about 2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, 
slightly flattened, with rather acute edges; partial inflorescences 4-5, rather short, 
ovate, 5-6 cm. long, composed of about 12 branchlets, each of these 
carrying 4-5 spikelets on each side; the lowest spikelets are the largest, 
12-15 mm. long with 4-5 flowers on each side, their axis slightly zig-zag sinuous 
with very short and almost glabrous spaces between the flowers;  spathels 
bracteiform, amplectent, produced externally into a broad limb subtending the involucre: 
the latter cupular, truncate, entire with two very minute teeth on the posticous side. 
Male flowers oblong or ovate-oblong, obsoletely trigonous, about 4 mm. in length, slightly 
narrowing towards an obtuse apex; the calyx campanulate, superficially 3-dentate ; the 
coroila about twice as long as the calyx. Fruiting spadix nodding or recurved, 40 cm. 
long including 15 cm, of the peduncular part (in 2 specimens) which consists of a 
true prickly pedicel 8 cm, long, 6 mm. thick, and of the elongate and equally 
slender and flattened internodes, interposed between the insertion of the two outer- 
most spathes; partial inflorescences five, usually accompanied by their persistent 
papyraceous spathes, 7-9 cm. long, erect, strict, shortly stalked, not callous at their 
insertion and composed of 8-10 spikelets; the main axis sinuous and slender; the 
largest spikelets, the lowest of each partial inflorescences, 4 em, long, with 4-5 
flowers on each side; spathels bracteiform, extended at one side into a very broadly 
triangular acute limb; involucrophorum short and thick, slightly exceeding its 
spathel, not or indistinctly callous at its axilla, expanded at its apex into an 
obliquely subcupular limb, which with one of its sides subtends the neuter flo wer 
and with the point of the other exceeds the margin of the involucre; the latter almost 
entirely immersed in the involucrophorum, cupular, truncate, slightly bidentate on the 
side of the neuter flower; areola of the neuter flower flat, bordered on both sides by 
an acute raised ridge, with a basal circular scar, not or very slightly swollen on its 
upper side. Female flowers ovate, 6 mm. long; the calyx cupular, strongly striately 
veined, superficially 3-dentieulate; the corolla about twice as long as the calyx, its 
segments rather broadly triangular-lanceolate, acute. Neuter flowers obscurely trigonous, 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcurra Vor. XII. 
