202 ANNALS 01' THK EOTAL BOTAKIC GARDEN. CALCUTTA. ID. longipes
a n g l e of 45° with a distinct axillary callus, rigid m t h a rather slender smuous
a i i s ; the lower ones of each inHoiescenCB are ths largest and are 8-9 cm. long, and
h a v e 6-7 bifarioas flower, on each side i spatliels briefly a n n n k r , apicalato at one
side ; involncrophorum sliort and thick, 2 mm, long, obconical ; mvohwr,. orbicular,
v e r y ahallowly cupular, barely p r o t r u d i n g beyond the involucrophorum ; areola of the
n e u t e r flower with a c.llous scar. Frmtim broadly obcouioal, shortly
pedicelliiorm. FruU ellipsoidal-ovoid, vory suddenly and briefly conicaliy beaked,
a s mm. long, IB-lT mm. broad (when nearly n.ature) ; scales in 18 longit
u d i n a l scries, 11-13 in each series, almost glossy, conves, deeply grooved, of a
l i g h t greenish colour with a .carious erosely toothed margin and an obtuse browmsh
point. ovoid 1 embryo basal. The different parts of the plant, petiole, roch.s
spadix, and f r u i t r e t a i n in the herbarium a light-green colour.
HABlTAT.-Thc Philippines: in the Island of Paragua, San Antonio Boy, at about
6O0 m. above the level of the sea {Ikrrill, No. 868 in Herb. Manill. and Berol.)
robust,
IS, and
ODSBBViTIoDS.-Very closely related to D. longipe,, but apparently i
w i t h larger leaflets and f r u i t ; the scalos are arranged in 18 longitudinal
each series is composed of U-12, whereas in D. h ^ i f ' ^ the series are lo, and
each series has only 7-8 scales; on the whole, therefore, the frmt has far more
numerous scales in D. araan, than in D. lonpfa.
P o i T E 91.—Daemonorops viresceus Beec. Intermediate portion of a leaf (upper
sui-face); lower portion of the petiole (front v i e w ) ; an entire f r u i t i n g s p a d i i ; from
t h e t y p e specimen in Herb. Berol. (Merrill's No. 2069).
81 DiuMOilOEOPS LOSQIPIiS Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 20.5 (2nd edit. 1849), and
329 pi 176. f. V. 2 3 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 93; Walp. Ann. in, 478,
a n d V, 828; Teijsm. Oat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 1866, 7 4 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br.
I n d . vi, 471 ; Beco. in Hoc. Bot. S u i t . Ind. ii, 229; Ridley Mat.
F l . Mai. Penins. ii, 184.
CaUmm hvipa Qrifi. in Calc. .loom. Nat. Hist, v, 68 (1845), and Palms
Brit. Ind. 78 (excl. Ruraph's cit.) pi. C C I I I A.B.; H. Wendl. in Kerch.
Palm. 234, excl. ayn.
Dae«o,m«p> slriclm Bl. R a m p h i . 19, pi. Jf- A ; Miq. Fl. I n d . Bat. iii, 86,
and in Jonrn. de Bot. N i e t l . i, 18, and Prodr. Fl. Sum. 2,55 ; Walp.
Ann. iii, 474, and v, 827.
Calamm M m Miq. De Palm. Arc. Ind. 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch.
Palm. 237.
Rotaitg hngipa Baill. Hist, das PI. siii, 300.
DB50Kn.T,0».-Apparently scandent. I , a f ; M k 3-3-0 cm. in diameter, thick, almost
woody not gibbons above, n l t i m . t e l y glabrous, very obliquely truncate at the niouth,
t h i c k l y armed with stout, flat, el.stie, scattered or subseriate, but individually
d i s t i n c t , brown, schislaceons spines which are broader than usual (4-6 mm. broad.
BEOCAHI. THE SP-ECIES OP DAEMONOROPS. 203 0. longipes']
6 - 6 cm. long); those along the margins on the ventral side ate more slender but
not longer; those at the base of the petiole cm its margins are snbulately triangular
and rather longer than any of the others. Oerta very short, almost reduced to a
simple semi-annular margin, but very densely covered with minute blackish bristles ;
t h e same kind of covering extends along the ventral suture of the sheath
where often the bristles are arranged in crowded transverse series. Zemi
large, 1-5-2-4 m. long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a long and strongly
clawed cirrus, the latter at times rudimentary or wholly wanting in the leaves
of the lower part of the stem ; petiole glabrous and almost polished, more or
loss eloogate, robust, 30-60 cm. long, 14-18 mm. broad at the base, where
broadly grooved on the upper surPace; above the base it becomes biconvex and
somewhat flattened ; margins obtuse, armed at the base with long, rigid, robust,
i r r e g u l a r spines which higher up are reduced to short, distant, s t r a i g h t teeth ; the upper
s u r f a c e of the petiole is smooth ; the under snrfuoe is armed along the centre at the
base with a line of s t r a i g h t , long, defloxed spines, which higher np are gradually reduced
in size and, at least in the rachis, (are transformed into solitary claws ; rachis on the
upper surface smooth all over, at first convex and more or less grooved on both
sides, where are inserted the leaflets, and with an acute salient angle and fiat aide
faces f r om about the middle upwards ; the lower surface is armed with at first
solitary, thou 3-nate and higher up, especially oo the cirrus, o-nate and halfwhorled,
robust, black-tipped claws. leafletB numerous, more or less inequidistant but
never distinctly gr<mped, sometimes in long parts of the rachis almost equidistant and
3 - 4 cm. a p a r t ; ofteiier however they are more or less g e m i n a t e ; towards the upper
end the vacant spaces are louger than elsewhere; the leaflets rather firmly papyraceous,
green, slightly paler beneath than above, elongate-lanceolate or ensiforni, broadest
below the middle and thence somewhat taporiug towards a not very acute base and
g r a d u a l l y acnniinate to a very finely subulate, long aud filamentous tip; the upper
surface is not distinctly 3-costulate having the mid-costa very sharp and bristly
spinulous towards the apex, and one secondary nerve, on each side of it, slightly
stronger than the others and usuafly bristly from the middle upwards or occasionally
almost smooth; on the lower surface the oiid-costa is rather closely bristly, and the
side nerves are bare, or one on each side of the raid-costa is occasionally bristly ;
t r s n s v e r s e veinlets numerous, approximate, sinuous, rather sharp on both sorfaces ;
margins minutely and not very appressedly spinulous; the largest leaflets are 30-40
cm. long, 22-28 mm. broad ; thoss' of the upper part are gradually smaller, the
u l t i m a t e ones are r u d i m e n t a r y . 31ak spadtx suprade compound, forming a large ovate,
cuprossiforin, rather diffuse panicle, 35-70 cm. long, ( l o n g e r in cultivated specimens)
borne on a long (50-80 cm.), s t r o n g l y flattened, very acutely two-edged, unarmed,
10-13 mm. broad, peduncular part ; primary spathcs papyraceous, exsuccous, cinnamonbrown
on both surfaces, but slightly darker internally, glabrous, and very finely
s t r i a t e ; externally furfaraceous wlian young, then glabrous, all completely
unarmed ; outer spathe very elongate (31-5 cm. in one specimen) acutely two-keeled
obliquely truecate at the upper end, and with two unequal acuminate
points, corresponding to each of the two keels and separated by a deep
concave sinns ; inner spathes gradually protruding one beyond the other,
t h e second and third rounded at the apex or with two unequal points, the others
acuminate, shorter and broader, all deciduous during the anthesis; the flowering
Aun. Eoy. Bor. Gard., CAtccrrA, Vol. XII.