D. Motleyi | BECCARI THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPg 121 
subulate, solitary, or scattered, horizontal or deflexed, lead-brown spines; the mouth 
obliquely truncate, unarmed. Ocrea almost obsolete. Leaves rather large, the upper 
terminating in a long clawed cirrus; petiole 20-30 em. long, biconvex except at the 
base where flattish on upper side, glabrous, and almost polished, inconspicuously 
longitudinally striolate, armed along the centre of the dorsum first with straight, 
solitary, robust spines that higher up are transformed into claws; the edges obtuse 
and armed with rather long, straight, horizontal spines, gradually becoming shorter 
towards the upper part; the upper surface is also covered with short vertical spines ; 
rachis armed along the centre of the dorsum with, at first solitary, but higher up 
with 3-nate, and finally with half-whorled 5-~7-nate broad-based and black-tipped 
claws; on the cirrus the half-whorls of claws are almost regularly spaced at intervals 
of 2-3 cm. without any other kind of Spines being interposed ; on the upper 
surface, the rachis is at first convex and prickly at the sides and then 
bifaced, the salient angle carrying remote prickles; leaflets not very numerous, very 
irregularly set, usually approximate in pairs on each side of the rachis, but at times 
solitary, with very long-— up to 15-20 em, in length —vacant spaces interposed; the 
pairs and single leaflets of one side alternate with or are subopposite to those of 
the other side; the intermediate leaflets are the largest, and are 25-30 cm. long and 
about 3 cm. broad, narrowly lanceolate, tapering a good deal towards the base, 
being usually broadest above the middle and thence shortly diminishing to a 
subulate, not bristly, though at the sides spinulous tip; they are rigidulous, thinly 
papyraceous, closely plicate, glabrous, quite bald, smooth, and sub-concolorous on both 
surfaces; on the upper surface the mid-costa acute, and several secondary and 
tertiary nerves slender, yet rather distinct ; underneath all nerves are less apparent 
than on the upper surface ; tranverse veinlets not very conspicuous but very numerous, 
approximate, interrupted and branched, so as to render the upper surface when dry and 
seen under a lens finely shagreened; margins very obscurely, appressedly ard remotely 
spinulous; the lower leaflets are somewhat shorter than the intermediate ; the uppermost 
are rudimentary and very narrow. Male spadiz . . . . . Female spadiz axillary in 
appearance; before flowering it is very narrowly fusiform, 20-25 cm. long, erect, 
apparently nodding when in fruit; it has a short, slender, flattened, acutely two-edged 
peduncular part with the edges spinulous; the outer spathe, before flowering, completely 
encloses the others, nor do the inner ones, even after the expansion of the flowers, 
exceed the outermost; the latter is rigid, not very thickly coriaceous, concave, elongate. 
fusiform, shortly acuminate, superficially two-keeled, rather densely armed all over, but 
specially along the keels, with short, laminar, brown-schistaceous (rusty-furfuraceous when 
young), more or less confluent, and sub-seriate comb-like, horizontal or slightly deflexed 
spines; the second spathe is slightly smaller than the outer and is prickly only on the 
centre of the dorsum towards the apex; the following spsthes are smooth, ovate- 
lanceolate, concave, acuminate; the main axis is covered all over with an adherent, 
thin, rusty-furfuraceous indumentum and carries @ . very few, approximate, small 
partial inflorescences, exactly as in D, didymophyllus ; Spikelets short, with very few 
flowers, their axis rather thick, strongly sinuous, acutely 3-gonous; spathels with a 
short annular limb, extended at one side into a very broad and short but acute 
point; involucrophorum short and thick, obconical, more or ess angular, extended 
above at one side into a triangular acute point; involucre with a short thick base, 
and slightly raised above the involuerophorum, flat and discoid at its upper 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD., Catcutta, Vor. XII. 
