102 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. lamprolepis. 
leaflets (no others seen by me) are about 60 cm. long, 2*5 em. broad. Male spadiz ... 
Female spadiz apparently elongate, strict, covered with a thin furfuracous tobacco- 
brown indumentum; its peduncular part very densely and irregularly armed with innum. 
erable, narrowly laminar, elastic, unequal, subulate, dark-brown spines; the main axis 
slightly flattened at the base and 9 mm. broad; primary spathes...; partial inflorescences 
erect, appressed to the main axis; the only one seen by me (apparently one of the 
lowest) is 20 cm. long, rigid, and has 5 spikelets on each side; the main axis, 
and the axes of the spikelets, are irregularly angular and covered with a dense, 
adherent, tobacco-brown scurf; secondary spathes and spathels inconspicuous, very 
shortly annular; the spikelets have very thick axes, are 6 cm. long, and have two 
slightly assurgent series of 6-7 flowers each; involucrophorum very short and thick, 
angular, obconical, extended at one side into a broadly triangular and short bractei- 
form point; involucre slightly raised above the involuerophorum, flat, discoid, with 
& very narrow rim; areola of the neuter flower concave and sublunate. Fruiting 
perianth explanate. Fruit spherical 17-18 mm, in diam.; scales arranged in 16 
longitudinal series, each series composed of six scales not taking into account the 
ill-conformed apical ones; they are glossy and ventricose, light greenish-yellow in 
colour, convex, grooved along the centre, with a very narrow, scarious, finely erose 
margin, and an obtuse point. Sed globular, deeply ruminated. 
Hasirar.—Bojong in the Province of Minahassa in N. Celebes, (Warburg in 
Herb. Berol.). 
OBSERVATIONS. — Apparently related to D. macropterus, but the fruit is spherical, 
Prate 39.—Daemonorops robustus Warb. The type specimen in the Herbarium 
at Berlin. 
35. DAEMONOROPS LAMPROLEPIS Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 229, 
Desoriprion.—Scandent. Sheathed stem about 2!em. in diameter. Leaj-sheaths strongly 
gibbous above, covered more or less with an adherent, tobacco-coloured scurf and 
armed with numerous, weak, thinly laminar, sometimes laciniate, acicular, unequal, 
1-2 em. long (at times even shorter), setiform, solitary, scattered, ascendent or 
spreading, brown-spadiceous spines, which rise from small bulbous bases. Leaves about 
l5 m. long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a slender, clawed cirrus about 80 
cm. long; the petiole rather short, about 12 cm. long, 10-12 mm. broad, biconvox, 
somewhat flattened, with acute edges, almost sooth underneath, armed on the upper 
surface especially near the edges with small, straight, erect, slender, scicular spines; the 
rachis armed along the centre of the convex dorsum with rather strong claws that 
become ternate near the apex, and 5-nate and half-whorled on the cirrus and have a 
rather strong and swollen base; on the upper surface the rachis is first convex and 
armed with small, ascendent prickles, becoming bifaced higher up with a salient and 
prickly angle. Leaflets numerous, eqnidistant, 2-3 cm. apart, and ensiform; the 
intermediate about 30 cm. long, 17-18 mm. broad, papyraceous, green and concolorous 
on both surfaces, broadest about the middle, narrowing thense to a rather acute base 
below and to a gradually acuminate and filamentose tip above; the mid-costa not 
very robust, acute, with a very few bristles, and these only near the tip; one 
slender nerve on each side of the mid.costa bears many long and spadiceous bristles ; 
