100 ANNALS OF,THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D. Sarasinorum. 
Prarg 36,—Daemonorops macropterus Bece. An intermediate portion of a leaf, 
under surface, Portion of the petiole of a leaf with the apical part of the leaf- 
sheath, An entire male spadix (in two pieces) before the opening of the spathes, A 
male spadix after the anthesis with the lowest spathe im situ. From the plant 
cultivated at Buitenzorg under the name of C. macropterus Miq. 
PLATE 387,—Daemonorops macropterus Becc, The fruiting spadix, and the portion of 
the leaf which accompanies it in the Herbarium at Buitenzorg. These are portions of 
the type specimen upon which Miquel established his Calamus macropterus. 
33. DarMONoROPS SARASINORUM Warb.; name only in Herb. Berol. 
Description.—Very large and robust. Sheathed siem apparently 6-7 cm. in diam, 
Leaf-sheaths extraordinarily and very densely covered with innumerable, unequal, often 
very long (up to 5-6 cm.), black, elastic, very narrowly laminar, rigid or needle-like, 
also eriniform spines. Leaves very large; rachis in the intermediate portion flattish and 
remotely clawed on the lower surface; on the upper surface roundish or with a very 
obsolete or obtuse angle, rather densely armed at the sides and along the centre with 
short, rigid, ascendent spines.  |Leafféís numerous, equidistant, rather closely and very 
spreadingly set, narrowly ensiform, suddenly diminishing towards the base, about 50 
em, long and 2 cm. wide in their broadest part,—8-18 cm. above the base—and thence 
very gradually acuminate to a long, subulate and bristly tip, somewhat firmly 
papyraceous, green, concolorous aud dull on both surfaces, rather distinctly 3-costulate; 
the mid-costa acute and the side costae slender, all three more or less bristly on the 
upper surface, but the mid-costa alone bristly from the middle upwards on the lower 
surface ; transverse veinlets minute, short, approximate and rather distinct on both 
surfaces ; the lower margin is rather distinctly thickened and has a very narrow polished 
band on the upper surface; margins rather closely and spreadingly bristly-ciliate. Male 
sp3diz supra-decompound, narrow and elongate-cupressiform with several, erect, compact 
or densely flowered—appressed, strict, gradually diminishing partial inflorescences ; 
spikelets covered with an abundant furfuraceous indumentum, the largest (the lowest of 
each branchlet) are about 2 cm. long, and have 10-12 irregularly set flowers; the axis 
of the spikelets is very slender and filiform; secondary spathes, spathels and involucra 
excessively small or obsolete. Male flowers short (4 mm. long), thickish, irregular, with 
the anthers quite exserted from the corolla even when they are still very young, and 
enclosed within the spathes ; the calyx is very small, almost flat, trigonous or 3-toothed ; 
the corolla is a good deal longer than the calyx, and is divided below the middle 
into 3 coriaceous, strongly striately-veined, asymmetrically-oblong and obtuse lobes ; 
stamens with rather thick subulate filaments; anthers basifixed, oblong, often asymmetrical, 
obtuse, deeply parted, or sagittate at the base ; rudimentary ovary small, 3-fid. Female 
spadiz elongate, strict, cupressiform, with a very short, densely spinous, pedicellar 
part; spathes coriaceous, tubular before flowering; the outermost apparently not much 
shorter than the inner ones—in one specimen 60 cm. long—fusiform, opening flat during 
the anthesis, narrowing almost equally to both ends, but gradually prolonged into an 
elongate, rigid, narrow tip, strictly coriaceous, glossy and of a cinnamon colour 
internally, and externally very densely covered with innumerable long, narrow, laminar, 
subulate, more or less irregularly confluent, black spines; inner spathes unarmed, 
thinly coriaceous, cinnamon-brown ; axis! of the spadix rigid, fugaciously furfuraceous, 
