D: depressiuseulus | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS i 155 
the type, by the innumerable small and short transverse veinlets. The fruit is spherical, 
15-16 mm. in diameter, with the scales of a uniform cinnamon-brown ‘colour. 
PrarE 62.— Daemonorops vagans Bece. Upper end of a leaf (under surface); upper. 
portion of a leaf-sheath with the base of a; petiole and an entire fruiting spadix. 
From No, 4129 in Herb. Calcutt. 
59. DAEMONOROPS DEPRESSIUSCULUS Becc, in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 226. 
Calamus |depressiusculus| Teijsm. and Binn. in Cat. Hort. Bog. (1886), 74 (name 
only). 
Calamus (Sect. Daemonorops) depressiusculus Miq. de Palmis, 29 (name only); 
H.| Wendl, in Kerch. Palm. 236. 
DescripTion.—Scandent, of moderate or even rather large size. Sheathed stem 4 
em. in diameter.  Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, densely armed with thin, laminar, very 
unequal spines, of which the largest are 3-4 mm. broad at the base and 2-3 em, 
long, while the smaller are needle-like or spiculiform, and disposed in interrupted 
transverse approximate series; the mouth is armed with straight erect spines, 
narrower and considerably longer than the larger ones on the body (10-15 cm. 
long, and 2-4 mm, broad at their base); the surface of the voung sheaths and also 
the spines, especially on their edges, are covered with a dense rusty-furfuraceous 
scurf. Leaves large, 1°8 m. long in the pinniferous part, and terminating in a long 
and rather robust cirrus; the petiole is long and robust, 50-55 em. long, equally 
convex on both surfaces and with very obtuse edges that are armed throughout with 
straight, horizontal, not very long spines; underneath the petiole is almost smooth or 
with a line of straight spines along the centre near the base; its upper surface 
is smooth or has a few scattered prickles; the rachis in its first portion is 
convex above, smooth throughout and has a rather broad groove on each side for 
the insertion of the leaflets, higher up the salient angle becomes gradually more 
acute, and assumes flat side-faces; underneath the rachis is, at |first, armed with solitary 
and then 8-nate and 5-nate claws, which on the cirrus at very regular intervals 
become half-whorled; leaflets very numerous, in one leaf 99 in all, equidistant (3-5 
em. apart) except towards the upper end, linear-ensiform, broadest below the middle, 
tapering thence towards the base, and gradually acuminate above to a ‘subulate, slightly 
bristly tip, papyraceous, rigidulous, green and concolorous en both surfaces, 3-cos- 
tulate; the mid-costa is slightly bristly spinulous above, but only near the apex; 
the side costulae are bristly from the middle upwards; on the lower surface the 
mid-costa, only is sparingly bristly; transverse veinlets very minute and approximate; 
margins very minutely and appressedly spinulous; the intermediate leaflets are 35-38 
em. long, 18-20 mm. broad; the lower are narrower; those towards the apex 
becoming gradually smaller. Male spadiz before flowering rigid, erect, slender, cylin- 
draceous, as thick as a ';man's finger, usually 40-50 em.—in vigorous plants as 
much as 80 cm.—long; primary spathes at first tubular and narrowly cornet-shaped, at 
the upper end obliquely truncate and shortly and obtusely bidentate, each spathe pro- 
jecting considerably beyond the one immediately below; after the anthesis the outer- 
Ann. Roy, Bor. Gard., CarcurrA, Vor. XII, 
