D. lamprolepis.] BECCARI THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 103 
a not very regular line of similar long bristles on the lower surface on the mid 
costa only; transverse veinlets not very distinct; margins very minutely, closely and 
appressedly spinulous; the lower margin bordered on its upper surface by a very 
narrow glossy band. Male spadix . . . . . Female spadiz before flowering pendulous, 
very long and slender, no thicker than a man’s little finger, cylindraceous, 40 cm. 
long (including a pedicellar part), 10-12 mm. thick; the pedicellar part itself is 12-15 
cm. long and passes very gradually into the outer spathe; it is slender, flattened, 
armed very densely, especially towards the apex, with unequal, acicular, flat, scat- 
tered or fascicled and irregularly set, erect, spreading or deflexed spines, 1-2 cm. long; 
the outer spathe is coriaceous, very rigid, very narrowly lanceolate, almost flat, with 
revolute margins when open, and narrows to an acuminate, externally densely crinite 
tip; externally it is not or only very obsoletely 'two-keeled and covered throughout 
with a thin, adherent, brown indumentum, and armed sparingly, on the body, with 
solitary, scattered, rigid, 1-2 cm. long, criniform spieulae which rest on small bulbous 
bases; within it is glabrous, finely striate and of a cinnamon-red colour; the inner spathes 
(there are only 3) are coriaceous, elongate, narrowly-lanceolate, acuminate, and protrude 
very slightly and gradualy one out of the other, all rusty-furfuraceous and densely 
crinite (externally) at their apices, elsewhere smooth. Fruiting panicle 20-25 cm. 
long, rigid, cupressiform, densely flowered, with only 3 partial inflorescences; all the 
axial parts are covered with an adherent, tobacco-coloured seurf; the partial inflorescences 
are 8-10 cm. long and have 4--6 distichous spikelets on each side; secondary spathes 
are reduced to a narrow scarious ring slightly produced at one side into a small 
triangular point; the spikelets are 3-5 cm. long, and have 4-6 irregularly 
distichous flowers on each side; spathels reduced to a narrow scarious ring slightly 
produced at one side into a small triangular acute point; involucrophorum  pedicelli- 
form, trigonous, slightly obconical, 2-3 mm. long, slightly extended at the apex 
into a rudimentary limb on one side; involucre slightly raised above the involucro, 
phorum by a short and thick, angular, pedicellar part, flat above and with a very 
narrow and rudimentary limb; areola of the neuter flower niche-like, Female flowers 
6 mm. long, ovoid, acute; the calyx very short, subpateriform, truncate, entire, 
strongly veined; the corolla several times longer than the calyx, ventricose at the 
base, and divided to below the middle into 3 elongate-triangular, often sinuous, 
acuminate, and finely striate segments; the stigmas thickly subulate, shorter than the 
segments of the corolla during anthesis. Neuter flowers sinuous-lanceolate, acuminate, 
5 mm. long; the calyx very shortly cupular and entire; the corolla several timeg 
Jonger than the calyx, finely striate. Fruiting spadis erect, or nodding, forming an 
elongate-ovoid panicle. “Fruit ovoid-ellipsoidal, almost equally narrowing towards 
both ends, obtusely conic-mammillate at the apex, 15 mm. long, 11—1U5 mm, broad; 
scales in J5 longitudinal series, light greenish-yellow, glossy but with a very narrow, 
dul margin, narrowly grooved along the centre, otherwise convex, point obtuse. 
Seed ovoid, boldly tubercled and coarsely pitted; albumen ruminate. 
Hasirat.—I gathered this species at Lepo-Lepo near Kandari in S. E. Celebes, 
July 1874. 
OmsERVATIONS,— The fruit is somewhat smaller, but otherwise very similar in 
shape, as also in the structure and colour of the scales, to that of D. macroplerus, to 
which D. lamprolepis in evidently related, though of much ‘smaller dimensions, 
