144 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIO GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. oblongus 
ovoid ; scales with a narrow, dark-brown, intra-marginal line all round. Seed ovoid, 
8-8:5 mm. long. 
D. Curranii from Mindanao differs from that growing in Palawan in its leaflets 
having & bristly-spinulous nerves above instead of 3, and by the pedicellar part 
of the spadix being entirely covered with stiff bristles, which are united in their 
basal parts, and form thick callous sub-cristate bodies. The fruit and the seed seem 
also more ovoid in the Mindanao than in the Palawan plant. 
Puare 58.—Daemonorops Carranii Bece. Leaf; fruiting spadix, and near this 
a female spadix in flower from the Palawan plant (No. 3791 Herb, Manill.); portion 
of a leaf-sheath and fragments of the spadix (on the left side of the plate) from 
Mindanao, (Clemens, No. 1280 Herb. Manill.). 
54, DarMwoNoRoPs osLoncus Bl. Rumphia, iii, pl. 140, 141, 11845?) and 
pl. 142 f, D. (excluding fige. A. B. C. which belong to ©. adspersus) 
and p. 25. (this page published in 1849 according to Martius, 
Hist. Palm. iii, 320, foot note); Mart. l. c. 205 (2nd edit.) and 
326; Walp. Ann. iii, 477 and v, 828; Miq, Fl. Ind, Bat. iii, 91; 
Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bog. 74. 
Calamus oblongus Reinw. in Bl. Cat. Hort. Buit. 59 (as from Bl.) and in 
letters to Martius in Mart. l. c. iii, 207 (Ist edit.) and 1. c. pl. 160 f. IV, 
1-3 (fruit only); Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veget. vii, 2, 1323 (only 
as to the Javan plant, all other synonyms excluded); Kunth, Enum. Pl. 
iii, 206; Miq. De Palmis Arc. Ind. 28. 
Calamus | platyacanthus Mart. l.c. 206, lst. edit. (only as to the plant from 
Java and excl. syn.) pl. 160 (excl f. V and IV, which figures belong 
to 0. adspersus); Kunth Enum. Pl. iii, 205 (excl. many syn.); Miq. De 
Palmis Arc, Ind. p. 28. 
Daemonorops platyacanthus Mart. 1. c. 204 and 328; Walp. Ann. iii, 477 and 
v, 828; Miq. Fl, Ind. Bat. iii, 90. ; 
Daemonorops hirsutus Bl. Rumphia, iti, 21, pl. 135 D, E. and pl. “¥ D (excluding 
pl 135 figs. A. B. C, which apparently belong to D. Hysíriz). 
DEscRIPTION.—Scandent, of middle or rather large size. Sheathed stem 3-4 cm. 
in diameter. Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, fugaciously  rusty-furfuraceous, their 
mouths very peculiarly armed with several erect, very long (19-15 cm.), straight, flat, 
thinly laminar, 2-4 mm. broad at the base, blackish or spadiceous spines, which 
when very numerous are obliquely inserted and imbricate, especially on the anticous 
part of the mouth; the spines which cover the surface of the sheaths are shorter 
than those round the mouth, but of the same type, and are usually 2-4 em. long 
and up to 4-5 mm. broad at the base, very thinly laminar, almost foliaceous, 
