Jd scapigerus. | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. . 195 
This is certainly the Daemonorops reduced by Miquel (Prodr. Fl. Sum. l. c.) 
to D. accedens ` of which he also writes in the Journ. de pot. Néerl 21, for I 
have seen the specimens examined by Miquel. 
Prate 85.—Daemonorops acanthobolus Bee. The base of the petiole (front 
view); upper portion of a leaf-sheath and base of the petiole with a spadix m 
situ bearing young fruits; an intermediate portion of a leaf (under surface). From 
the type-specimen P. B. No. 22 in Herb. Beccari. 
Pirate  86.—Daemonorops acanthobolus Bece. Male spadix in flower; lower 
portion of a petiole. From Lobb’s specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 
78. Dasmonorops SCAPIGERUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 298. 
DESCRIPTION.— Not scandent. Stem erect, short.  Leaf-sheaths 20-22 mm. in diameter, 
rusty furfuraceous, not gibbous above, very obliquely truncate at the mouth, armed 
and ornamented, particularly on the upper part of the dorsum, with a few subparallel, 
oblique, semi-circular or almost complete, spiniferous, deflexed crests or rows of small, 
flattened, usually spiculiform spines, which are united by their bases into narrow 
membranous rings. Leaves elongate, 0:8-1 m. long in the pinniferous part, terminating 
in a slender, often short, and rudimentary cirrus; petiole at first fugacious!y furfura- 
ecus, later almost polished, elongate, 35-40 em. long. 6-8 mm. broad, broadly grooved 
at the base, then for a short distance plano-convex, and from the middle upwards 
flattened-biconvex, smooth on both surfaces; the margina rather obtuse, strongly 
spinous; the spines light-coloired, those nearer to the base very long (up 
to 8-11 cm.), erect and spreading, gradually shorter higher up, frequently geminate 
and at times ternate, one longer than the others and divaricate; rachis armed on 
the under surface with at first solitary and higher up ternate, rather small claws; 
on the upper surface it has a salient, smooth angle, obtuse at first, very acute from 
the middle upwards; leaflets rather numerous, equidistant, 3-6 cm. apart, except those 
in the terminal part where the intervals are longer and somewhat unequal; 
rather firmly papyraceous, green, paler beneath, narrowly lanceolate or ensiform, 
broadest about or a little below the middle and thence tapering to a rather acute 
base end gradually acuminate to a finely subulate bristly tip, plicate on the upper 
surface; the mid-costa is very slender, acute and very sparingly spinuliferous only 
near the apex; the secondary nerves unequal, quite smooth, one on each side of 
the mid-costa very slightly stronger than the others, but not enough to 
render the upper surface distinctly 3-eostulate; on the under surface the  mid-costa 
alone minutely and remotely spinulous; transverse — veinlets excessively numerous, 
approximate and short, so as to render both surfaces when seen under a lens 
finely shagreened; margins smooth or very remotely minutely appressedly spinulous 
towards the apex; the largest leaflets are those a little above the base, 35-40 cm. 
long, 22-25 mm, broad; the upper ones somewhat shorter but not narrower. Male 
spadiz . . . Female spadiz has a very short, slightly branched and rather dense 
panicle, borne on a very long peduncular part; primary spathes membranous, 
exsuccous, splitting longitudinally, concave-cymbiform, lanceolate, acute, deciduous 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Catcurra, Vor. XII. 
