108 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. Draconcellus. 
Bogor.. Of this I have seen two entire spadices with quite mature fruits; the panicle 
is 40-45 cm. long, and is borne on a rather slender peduncular part (15-20 cm. 
long), armed all round with confluent spines; the partial inflorescences (4 in number) 
are short, and bear a few spreading, very thick, few-flowered spikelets, exactly like those 
described under D. propinguus, The fruit, however, is in no way pyriform, but regularly 
ovoid, and diminishes equally, but slightly, towards both ends, is obsoletely beaked or 
mammillate at the apex, very densely covered with red resin, 28 mm, long, 20 mm, 
broad. The seed is broadly ovoid, 17 mm. long, and 14 mm. broad, slightly flattened, 
almost equally convex on both surfaces, obtuse at the apex and not lessening from the 
middle upwards; therefore, in a longitudinal section passing through the raphe it is 
oblong in outline; the chalazal fovea is central, pit-like, and penetrates to the 
centre of the albumen; the furrow on the side of the raphe is either very superficial, or 
almost obsolete; albumen bony, ruminated by narrow and deep black channels. This 
Daemonorops is certainly very closely related to the true D. Draco from Palembang, but its 
fruit is perhaps more regularly ovoid, and the peduncular part is prickly all round, and 
not only on the margins. From D. propinquus it differs still more by the form of the 
fruit, and especially by the seed, which in D. propinquus is conoidal in longitudina 
section, and has the chalazal fovea rather superficial, and in the shape of a fissure. 
39. Darmonorops DmacoscELLUR Becc. Nelle Foreste di Borneo, pp. 324, 590, 608, 
and in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. iii, 224. 
DrscniPTION.—-High scandent. Sheathed stem about 2 cm, in diameter. Leaf-sheaths 
gibbous above, covered more or less permanently with an adherent tobacco-coloured 
scurf, armed all over and also at the base of the petiole, except round the mouth, 
with many interrupted series of small, very fine, blackish, shining, confluent, erect, 
acicular and subsetiform spiculae, 5-10 mm. long at most; the mouth is obliquely 
truncate, and hispid on the margin. eaves about 1 m. long in the pinniferous part, 
terminating in a rather long, slender, finely clawed cirrus; the petiole is elongate, 
about 50 em. long, 1 cm. broad, biconvex, and rather strongly flattened, especially 
at the base, armed all over on its upper surface and on the sides with short ascendent 
often divergent prickles, much less prickly, or almost smooth, on the under surface ; 
the rachis, in its basal portion, is convex above with a narrow groove on each 
side for the insertion of the leaflets, it is bifaced, and with an acute spinous salient 
angle higher up; underneath it is armed with claws, solitary just above the base, 
3-nate towards the upper end, 5-nate and half-whorled on the cirrus, Leaflets numerous, 
equidistant, about 2 cm, apart, linear, very narrow, 20-30 em. long, 7-10 mm, broad, 
very gradually acuminate to a subulate and bristly tip, thinly but rather firmly 
papyraceous, green and almost glossy on both surfaces; on the upper they are unicostate 
and smooth; on the lower the mid-costa is very closely and minutely ciliate and usually a 
slender nerve on each side of the mid-costa bears small appressed bristles as well; 
transverse veinlets slender but distinct ; margins very minutely, remotely, and appressedly 
spinulous. The male and female spadices are very much alike, and are borne on a slender, 
flattened, 8-10 em. long peduncular part, which gradually broadens into the outer- 
most spathe, and is armed, at least on the edges, with rigid, rather robust, deflexed, 
often confluent, yet divergent prickles; the spathes are all thickly coriaceous, open and 
more or less flat during the anthesis, or else the margins become revolute; they 
