1100 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Demonorops. 
either a male or a female, or both in axil of each bracteole of 
axillary usually much elongated, branched spadices, sometimes 
produced as a flagellum; spathes cymbiform, the outer at first 
enclosing the inner, soon deciduous. ¢ Sepals 8, connate in a 
cupular, 3-toothed calyx. Petals 3. acute, coriaceous, valvate. 
Stamens 6; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed. ¢ Flowers 
aban Om distinctly gies Sepals connate in 
tubular, 3-toothed calyx. Petals 8, connate in a tubular, 3-fid 
ek... pe valvate. Staminodes alae. cupular. Carpels 
connate in an imperfectly 3-celled ovary, clothed with retrorse 
scales; ovules basilar, erect; style short or long; stigmas s 3 
Fruit globose or ellipsoid; style terminal ; pericarp thin, clothed 
with adpressed, pela closely imbricate, shining scales. Seed 
subglobose or oblong, smooth or pitted; albumen equable or 
ruminate ; embryo Bree or basal. 
2285. Damonorops JENKINSIANUS eee F. B. I. vi. 462. Cala- 
enkinsia E. D. 
t. Bengal; Tippera ; Pea, ong. 
A very stout-stemmed, climbing rattan. 
Leaflets a ee all 3-costate ; cost above all very sparsely 
setose with long bristles, the central only below 
petiole rachis ai. flagellum with many ‘iinrptnal and re 
ooked spines or 3-5. claws. 
Order CXLIII. PANDANEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, with stilted or climbing 
aerial roots. Leaves usually 3-farious, narrow, acuminate, corla 
ceous, With margins and keels usually spinously lied ewes 
dicecious, small, crowded or catkin-like, simple or ched ; 
axillary spadices clothed with leafy spathes; perianth - qpek 
0 meinen 0. ¢ Stamens numerous; filaments free or OP 
anthers erect, basifixed. Pistillode small or obsolete. ? 
pee small or 0. Carpels solitary, free or connate > 
phalanges of 2 or more; ovules solitary and suberect or many and 
parietal; stigmas subsessile, papillose. Fruit a globose or oblong 
mass of free or connate, 1- or more-celled, woody or fleshy a2 nar 
drupes. Seeds minute; testa striated ; albumen hard and fleshy ; 
embryo minute, 
