D. oblongus] SECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 145 
fringed-furfuraceous on the edges when young, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, solitary 
or seriate or confluent as well and balf-verticilled, horizontal or deflexed, Ocrea 
very short, Leaves rather large, 1:22-1:5 m. long in the  pinniferous part, 
terminating in a more or less elongate cirrus; petiole elongate (30-50 cm, long), 
light-coloured, slightly flattened, equally convex on both surfaces, its edges obtuse, 
more or less armed throughout with straight, ascendent, spreading or divergent 
spines from a few mm. to 1-4 cm. in length; the spines are usually longest 
near the base; the upper surface is smooth or sparsely-prickly, underneath it is 
usually armed along the centre and specially near the base with a line of 
long, straight, deflexed spines; the rachis in its lower portion has a more or 
less distinct groove on each side for the insertion of the leaflets, and is convex 
above, the convexity gradually becoming a very acute, salient angle, more or less 
spinulous towards the upper end; underneath, the rachis is at first armed with 
solitary, then with 3—5-nate, and on the cirrus with half-whorled claws; leaflets 
very numerous, equidistant also in the terminal part, 2-3 cm. apart, often almost 
opposite, papyraceous, rather rigid, green, concolorous on both surfaces, linear- 
lanceolate, broadest in the middle and thence gradually acuminate to a very 
slender, subulate, more or less bristly tip, 25-30 cm. long, 15-18 mm. broad, the 
upper leaflets somewhat smaller; on the upper surface they are tricostulate, or have 
the mid-costa acute (bristly-spinnlous towards the upper end), with one secondary 
nerve stronger than the others on each side of it, and bristly from a little above 
the base; underneath are 5 nerves not very closely nor very minutely bristly ; 
transverse veinlets rather numerous, and rather sharp on both surfaces, much 
interrupted ; margins minutely, closely, and not very appressedly spinulous. Spadices, 
male and female, externally very similar, elongate, cylindraceous, slender, as thick as 
a maus finger, slightly curved, with a very short prickly peduncular part or almost 
sessile; primary spathes thickly coriaceous, at first tubular and slightly ear-shaped, 
obliquely truncate, and usually shortly bidentate, each of them protruding a good deal 
beyond that immediately below; the outermost long persistent after flowering, 
more or less flat or slightly concave, at least in its upper part, then spathulate- 
cuneiform, being broadest near the apex, and thence gradually narrowing towards the 
base, glabrous and glossy internally, grayish or rusty-furfuraceous or at times glabrescent 
externally, armed more or less on the back, especially near its base, with flat usually 
triangular, short and broad, but occasionally elongate, scattered or confluent, and seriate 
or else digitate spines; not unfrequently a few long, slender, erect spines are to be 
found near the upper end; inner spathes smaller, deciduous, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 
gradually less spinous, the others unarmed; the axial parts more or less covered 
with a thin rusty-furfuraceous, partially evanescent indumentum. Male spadiz 
usually smaller than the female one, 30-50 cm. long; the flowering panicle very slender 
and strict, its main axis subterete and 3-5 mm. in diam. at its base, irregularly 
angular and as thick asa pack-thread upwards; partial inflorescences 6-8, appressed to 
the main axis, narrowly fastigiate-cupressiform, 7-10 cm. long and with 8-10 branch- 
lets; secondary spathes very small, scale-like, extended at one side into an erect 
triangular, acute point; branchlets with 8-10 fastigiate, gradually shortening spikelets 
the largest (lowest) of these are 10-12 mm. long and have 10-12 unilaterally set flowers, 
which are usually in pairs; the upper spikelets are gradually shorter and have fewer 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catcurra, Vor. XII. 
