D. longispathus) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 207 
any otker part, and as much as 10-18 cm. long. Ocrea very short, furfuraceous, devoid 
of hairs or bristles. Leaves very large, 2°75 m. long (in one specimen) in the 
pinniferous part, and terminating in a robust cirrus, 1 m. in length ; other leaves, 
according to their position on the stem, are not or only rudimentarily cirriferous ; 
petiole very robust, elongate (75 cm. long in one specimen), 15-18 mm, broad at its 
base, flattish, or slightly convex on the upper surface where prickly only near, the 
margins, convex on the back, the margins not very acute, strongly armed at the 
base with long irregular, spreading spines, which become shorter, more robust, often 
geminate or digitate-ternate and divergent higher up; on the lower surface, along 
the centre of the dorsum, the spines of the petiole are at first solitary or digitate- 
ternate and deflexed, but straight, and then are transformed [into claws on the 
rachis; on the upper surface the rachis is smooth throughout, at first is broadly 
grooved at the sides where the leaflets are inserted and has a salient angle in the 
centre, obtuse at first, then very acute, with flat side-faces; on the lower surface 
the claws are at first 3-nate and then 45-7-nate and half or three quarters 
whorled in the cirrus: they are exceptionally strong, and have a reversed but 
rather straight point, Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 3-1, and in very vigorous 
specimens 5-7 cm. apart; they are firmly papyraceous, almost glossy, and con- 
colorous on both surfaces, elongate-lanceolate or ensiform, broadest about or a little 
below the middle and thence tapering towards the base and acuminate to a subulate 
and sometimes more or less caudiculate and bristly, spinulous tip; on the upper 
surface the mid-costa is slender, very sharp, smooth or very sparingly  spinulous 
from the middle upwards and has several unequal smooth secondary nerves on 
each side of it, but none of these is considerably stronger than the others. On 
the ander surface all nerves are slender and smooth; transverse veinlets numerous, 
sinuous and interrupted, rather sharp on both surfaces; margins acute, remotely, 
minutely, and appressedly spinulous; the largest and intermediate leaflets are 35-45 
em. long, and 3-4 em. broad, the lowest are narrower, and the uppermost smaller 
and have longer filiform tips than the others. Male spadiz large, elong ate; one 
specimen has 15 or 16 partial inflorescences which form on the whole a large, 
cupressiform very acuminate panicle, 2:1 m. in length; the main axis is straight, 
very slender at the upper end; the internodes are 12-15 cm. long, angular, rot swollen 
at the junctures; upper internodes strongly flattenel; primary spathes decid u ous, very 
thinly coriaceous, or thickly papyraceous, narrowly or elongate-lanceolate, reddish 
brown, glabrous, finely longitudinally striate and darker internally: externally covered 
with a very adherent, thin, irregular, more or less confluent, scaly, rusty-furf uraceous 
indumentum; the outermost spathe is 45 cm. long (in one specimen), and is 5 cm. 
broad, spreads out almost flat during the anthesis, very acutely two-keeled ; the keels 
armed with small, short, ascendent spines; inner spathes unarmed, each g radually 
protruding beyond the other, very acuminate; partial inflorescences varying a good 
deal in size; the lowest form a rather dense, ovate, acute, spreading panicle up to 
40 em. long and 20-25 cm. broad, with 4-5 distichous branchlets on each side, 
besides several simple spikelets in the terminal part; the following inflorescences are 
gradually smaller, and the uppermost consist of a few simple spikelets; the branchlets 
follow the same rule, the lowest being the largest, and the following becoming 
gradually smaller, and with fewer spikelets; the lowermost branchlet of each 
inflorescence is 15-20 em, long, and has 6-8 spikelets on each side; the axis of 
