Dmmonorops.] OLxin. palmej;. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 463 



Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 81 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 89 {excl. fruit. & 1. 188 A. f. 3 (=0. 

 Plagellum), T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 8oc. xi. 11. C. nntantiflorus, 

 Griff, in Calo. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 79 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 88, t. 208. 



The SiKKiM Himalaya, Assam, the Khasia Hills, Bengal and Chitta- 



GON&. 



Stem very stout, with the sheaths if in. diam., young pai'ts g-rey-pubescent. 

 Leaves large ; leaflets 2 ft. by f-J in. ; petiole 5-6 in. ; spines of rachis many, short, 

 scattered; of sheath l-lj in. long. Outer spatlie 1-2 ft., spines ^-f in. j inner 12- 

 18 in., lanceolate, long acuminate, quite smooth. Male spadix thyrsiform, dense- 

 fld. ; calyx oblong, 3-toothed, and petals and bracts deeply (grooved. Fern, spadix with 

 spreading branches, fruiting erect ; calyx cupular, not pedicelliform ; petals twice as 

 long. Fruity in. diam., pale yellow brown ; scales deeply chiinnelled, mnrgins narrowly 

 scarious. Seed subglobose, smooth ; albumen puuctate, or the surface ruminate by very 

 slender channels. 



2. D. nXanii, Becc. vriss. ; leaflets very many and narrow naked be- 

 neath setulose on the 3 costse above, spadix very long slender, peduncle 

 compressed hardly armed, outer spathe very long gradually narrowed into 

 a long pale dorsally-keeled beak, spines few large flat, inner lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, fruiting spadix erect glabrous, fruit globose shortly mammillate scales 

 pale slightly channelled margins pale, tip not discoloured. 



Andaman Islds., B. H. Man. 



Allied to G. JenTcvusiamis. — I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 



3. D. Kurzlanus ; stem and petioles very stout, leaflets very many 

 equidistant elongate ensiform acuminate margins minutely aculeolate, 

 costse 3-5 naked or with a few long bristles above, rachis semi-terete very 

 stout flat above with short scattered spines on the margins, outer spathe 

 with seriate spines inner linear, fruiting spadix erect branches' very stout, 

 fruiting calyx explanate, fruit globose very shortly beaked pale yellowish. 

 D. grandis, Kurz in Jowm. As. 8oc. Beng. xliii. ii. 208 (not of Ma/rt.). 

 Calamus grandis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 523 {not of Griffith). 



South Andaman Islds., Kurz. 



Stem with the sheath as thick as the arm. Leaves shortly petioled j leaflets 

 1-2 ft. by 1-li in., tips ciliate ; rachis enormously stout, IJ in. diam., dorsally 

 convex and unarmed, ending in a clawed flagellum ; petiole armed below with long 

 flat and short recurved spines; sheath with whorled spines. Outer spathe cymbi- 

 form, scurfy, inner unarmed. Fruity in. diam., pale brownish yellow, scales deeply 

 channelled, margins brownish with a very narrow scarious edge ; fruiting calyx with a 

 very short base and broad striate lobes; petals twice as long, striate. Seed sub- 

 compressed, albumen as in V JenMnsianus. — I have seen only a portion of a leaf with 

 the enormous rachis described above, imperfect leaflets, and a very old fern, spadix 

 with fruit. J.D.H. 



4 D. grandis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 327, t. 173 ; leaves and 

 leaflets as in D. Kurzianus, but pale and subglaucons, costje beneath naked 

 or sparsely ciliate as are the margins, spathe as in D. Kurzianus, calyx 

 subentire villously ciliate, fruit globose. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 88 ; 

 Teysm. Sf Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 74; Walp. Ann. iii. 476, v. 827. 

 Calamus grandis. Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 84 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 

 91, t. 210 A (?B et 0)., t. 216, f. iii. Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 28. 



Malacca, Griffith. Pbrae', Scortechini. 



Stem very stout, scandent, sheaths 2 in. diam. Leaves 15-16 ft. ; leaflets 

 18-20 by IJ in. ; petiole about 2 ft. Lower spathes 14-15 in. long, inner in- 

 cluded, unarmed, rustily scurfy. Male spadix 15-18 in., decompound, spikes about 



