: 442 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. Curranii 
and more rigid leaflets, and the collector notes that the plant has a calamoid 
stem, but is generally short and erect, 7 feet high, densely tufted, Ridley’s 
specimen from Pulo Pinang mentioned above agrees pretty well with the type 
specimens of D. elongatus, only the fruit scales are in 18, not in 15, longitudinal 
series, 
Ridley reduces to D. elongatus Bl, D. Kunstlerii Becc., a quite different species, 
Probably some of the localities attributed by Ridley to D. elongatus belong to 
D. Kunstlerii, 
Puate 57.—Daemonorops elongatus Bl. ‘Male spadix during the anthesis, and 
another not yet expanded, in the central part of the plate; female spadix with 
growing ovaries; spadix with full grown fruits; the upper part of a leaf-sheath, 
and the petiole, From a specimen cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg 
(Herb. Beccari). | 
. 58. DarMwoxoRoPs Currantt Becc. in Philip. Journ, Sc. ii (1907), 238. 
Description.—Scandent and of moderate size, Leaf-sheaths . . . , . Leaves 
terminating in a not very long and slender cirrus, which is very regularly armed 
with approximate half-whorls of very sharp confluent claws; petiole . . . E 
the leaf-rachis (in the intermediate portion) is slightly convex beneath, where it is 
strongly and regularly armed with helf-whorls of 5-nate claws and has a very 
sharp and spinulous salient angle above and flat-side faces; leaflets numerous, 
equidistant, about 4 cm. apart, green and sub-shining on both surfaces, papyraceous, 
very narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate-ensiform, broadest not very far above the base 
and thence shortly narrowing downwards, gradually acuminate to a subulate and, at 
the sides, spinulous tip; on the upper surface the mid-costa is slender and Sharp, 
spinulous only near its apex, and accompanied on each side by a slender 
secondary nerve which is stronger than some other nerves of the same kind and 
spinulous; underneath the mid-costa alone is minutely bristly spinulous; transverse 
veiulets very slender and sharp especially on the upper surface; the intermediate 
leaflets 33-40 cm. long, 17-20 mm. broad. Female spadiz before flowering very 
narrowly cylindrical and elongate, slightly curved; primary spathes at first tubular, 
very obliquely truncate at the mouth and produced at the apex into a triangular 
point, later longitudinally split; the outermost spathe, after flowering, elonzato- 
spathulate, gradually narrowing towards the base into a rather short, flattened, prickly, 
pedicellar part, completely and very densely armed externally with solitary or more or 
less seriate and confluent, deflexed, short, unequal spines, which have a reddish-brown 
tip, and a lighter swollen base; inner spathes prickly only on the back, especially 
near their apex, smooth on the margins at the mouth; when in flower or fruit 
the female spadix is thinly rusty-furfuraceous ia every part, about 60 cm. long, 
slender, rigid, with 6-7 partial inflorescences; the peduncular part of the spadix is 
7-8 cm. long, 7-8 mm. broad, slightly flattened, very slightly enlarged upwards, 
armed with deflexed, solitary or confluent and sub-digitate, straight, rather short, 
deflexed spines; the main axis (of the spadix) is straight, its lowest (2-3) internodes 
