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each gradually protruding beyond the one immediately below and covered with a thin 
rusty-furfuraceous indumentum, strongly  pluri-costulate-striate longitudinally, oblong- 
spathulate ; the outermost 11-14 em. long, armed with weak, slender, acicular, 
fringed, solitary spines; on the dorsal keel the spines are confluent and sub-digitate ; 
the spathes are at their upper end truncate, densely crinite or farnished with 
weak, slender, non-pungent, filiform, flexible, sinuous, light-coloured, 15-20 mm. 
long, subspiny bristles; the second spathe does not differ from the outermost, except 
in being less spinous as are the following, the innermost is quite unarmed ; during 
the anthesis the female spadix forms an erect, rigid, rather dense panicle; its 
main axis is slightly zig-zag sinuous, obsoletely angular with internodes 5-8 em. 
long and slightly swollen at the junctures; all the axial parts are more or less 
fugaciously rusty-furfuraceous; the partial inflorescences are 6-7 in number, are pani- 
culiform, very shortly stalked, erect, ovate-pyramidate and have a slender but rigid 
angular axis; the lower partial inflorescences, which are also the largest, are 10-14 
em. long and bear alternately, on each side, 5-7 erecto-patent, gradually diminishing 
spikelets; upper partial inflorescences gradually smaller and with fewer spikelets; 
secondary spathes not completely amplectent, very short, triangular, scale-like, acute; 
the lower spikelets of every inflorescence are the largest, 6—7 cm, in length; 
their axes are filiform, rigid, sinuous, subterete or obsoletely angular, and scabrid 
after the fall of the minute scurf which covers them at first; the spikelets have 
numerous flowers (25-30) which are alternately and almost spirally inserted, 3-4 
mm. apart; spathes very small, shortly annular, slightly produced at one side 
into a very small bracteiform triangular point; involucrophorum slender, con- 
spicuously pedicelliform, 2-5 mm. long (in the lower part of the spikelets longer 
than higher up), subterete or obsoletely angular, slightly broadened at its upper end 
and three edged by an inconspicuous limb; the involucre is discoidal or reduced to a 
flat, orbicular surface, edged by an inconspicuous margin; areola of the neuter reduced 
to a punctiform scar. Female flowers ovoid-oblong, 4-5 mm. long; the calyx obconical. 
cyathiform, narrowing towards the base, often obsoletely angular, finely striately-veined, 
truncate and with 3 very superficial, acute teeth at the mouth; the corolla twice as 
long as the calyx, its undivided part as long; the segments broadly triangular, acute 
and finely striate; the stigmas during the anthesis reach the apex of the segments 
and are rather short, linear-oblong and obtuse. Neuter flowers comparatively large, 
as long as the female, but considerably narrower, obsoletely angular and sinnous by 
mutual pressure, linear-oblong, obtuse; the calyx eyathiform, truncate with 3 very 
small, superficial and acute teeth; the corolla thrice as long as the calyx, both 
finely and striately veined. Fruit....... ' 
Hanrrar.—North Borneo at Labuan (Lob^. in Herb. Kew.) In Borneo it has 
been also collected by Law (Herb. Kew.), precise locality not given. 
OssERVaATIONS.— À very peculiar species standing alone amongst those known to 
me by its flowers being noi exactly distichally set, but almost spirally arranged 
round the slender axes of the spikelets. The flowers are, moreover, carried on a 
very slender involucrophorum, similar to that which is found in some species of 
Calamus, as for instance in C. symphysipus. Though apparently of the group of 
D. Draco, it is not very closely related to any of these species known to me, 
