D. gracilipes.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 110 
lead-brown, flat, 1-2 cm. long, spreading or deflexed spines; the radical or lowest 
leaves have a few  sub-radiate-digitate leaflets borne on, at times a very long 
(80 cm.), subterete or obsoletely angular end superficially grooved petiole; the 
intermediate leaves are pinnate but non-cirriferous, 1-1:2 m. long in the pinni- 
ferous part, with a petiole as much as 1 m. in length and sparingly prickly; the 
leaflets are numerous, subequidistant, 5-7 cm. apart; only the leaves of the upper 
spadieigerous part of the plant terminate in a slender clawed cirrus; in the upper 
leaves the leaflets are more distinctly inequidistant and often in pairs on each 
side of the rachis; the petiole is 30-40 cm. long, somewhat flattened, plano-convex 
at the base, otherwise biconvex with acute edges, armed with straight, elongate, 
spreading spines on the edges, especially near the base, beneath smooth, 
or with only a few straight deflexed prickles along the centre of the dorsum; 
rachis armed beneath as usual with small solitary claws which become ternate near 
the upper end and 5-nate—half-whorled on the cirrus; on the upper surface the rachis 
obtusely convex at first and bifaced from the middle upwards with a very acute, 
salient non-prickly angle; leaflets ensiform, broadest a little below the middle, 
and thence gradually narrowing towards the base, and gradually acuminate to a 
rather fine bristly tip, thinly papyraceous, green on both, surfaces, with the 
mid-costa acute on the upper and  bristly-spinulous but only near the apex 
or else quite smooth; beneath it is more or less bristly from the middle upwards; 
the secondary nerves are all slender but sharp, bold on both surfaces, yet some- 
times one on each side of the wid-costa, though not stronger than the others, 
is very sparingly spinulous on the upper surface; transverse veinlets excessively 
numerous and minute, giving under a lens a faintly granular appearance to 
the upper surface; margins very minutely, remotely and appressedly spinulous; the 
lower margin on the upper surface is often distinctly edged by a very narrow glossy 
band; the largest leaflets of the intermediate leaves are 40-50 cm. long, and 2:5-3 
cm. broad, and are less acuminate than those of the terminal leaves which are 
also smaller (35-40 cm. long and 2 cm. broad) Spadices male and female, 
before flowering almost similar, cylindraceous—fusiform, as thick as the little 
finger, erect, nodding, or at times recurved, borne on a pedicellar part which varies - 
from 3 to 12 cm. in length and is slender, flattened and smooth, or has edges armed 
with solitary straight spines; spathes thickly coriaceous, finely rusty-furfuraceous 
externally, glabrous inside; the inner spathes slightly longer than the outermost, 
and all very soon deciduous; the outermost are, before flowering, split on the ventral 
side and cornet-shaped, then open, more or less completely flat, or with margins 
revolute, 10-15 cm. long, oblanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, shortly and not very 
acuminate at the apex, feebly armed externally with two lines of small, 
ascendent spines. Female spadiz has a rather short panicle, usually 15-20 em. or 
at most 3- cm. long, covered in every part with a more or less persistent, thin, 
rusty-furfuraceous indumentum ; its main axis is rather slender, slightly but unevenly 
flattened; the internodes are 3-5 cm. long;  partiai inflorescences 5-6, slightly 
callous at their insertion, small, the  largest—the lowest—6-7 cm. long, with 
5-6 spikelets in all; secondary spathes very small, scale-like, acute or acuminate 
on one side; spikelets spreading after flowering, and slightly callous at their axilla, 
short and thick; the largest 2°5-3 cm. long with only 4-6 flowers in all; 
their axes acutely trigonous and sinuous; spathels with a short annular limb,. 
