AKKALS OF THE BOYAL BOTANIC GARDEÍÍ, CALCDTTA.
Leaflets closely set, bearing long bristles on 3 nerves above,
margine closely spiuulous. Outer spatlie arraed with large flat
spines often conflueiit by their bases and almost pectinate. Seed
orbicular, flattened.
W. D. Kurz'mnus.
Leaflets very closcIy set, rather large ( 5 0 — 5 2 cm. long, 2—5 cm.
broad); first and second spatlie armed on the body and on the
beak almost to the apex with very long narrowly laminar or
sub-setiform spines.
77. D. malaccensis.
Leaflets very narrow, 15—17 mm. in width at most, very regularly and
very closely set (about 10—15 mm. apart).
1. Outer spathe armed with short rigid triangular spines.
72. D, hygrophylus.
3 . Outer spathe armed with broad, elongated, flat, elastic, often laciniate
spines.
§ Leaves of the upper and fertile part of the plant almost without
a petiolar part. Spathes with deeply laciniafe spines. Scales
of the fj'uit straw coloured.
73. D. stenophyl/us.
§§ Leaves of the upper and fertile part uf the plant with a
more or less elongate petiole.
• Fruit globular but conically beaked; its scales of a
uniform cinnamon-browu colour.
74. D. fissus.
* * Fruit scales usually with a darker or discoloured margin and
a black apex and often with a light speck behind the
apex. Leaflets very narrow, very closcly sot at a very
wide angle.
Outer spathe armed with broadly laminar, strongly laciiiiate
spines, Second spathe unarmed.
75. D. BinnendijTiii.
Outer spatlie rather gradually narrowing into the beak,
armed with long laminar usually not laciniate spines.
Second spathe unarmed or nearly so. Fruit-scales not
spotted at the apex.
76. D. angustifc/ius.
Outer spathe as in the preceding. Second spathe ratker
densely spinous. Fruit-scalfis blackisli nt the apex with
an intra-marginal light spot.
17. D. trichrous.
BECCARI. THE SPECIES OP DAEMONOEOPS.
5. Leaflets ensiform, opaque, comparatively broad (2—3-5 cm.
em. long), remotely equidistant, 3—5 cm. apart.
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78. D. interned i us.
(Í) Spadices ; less stalked hj a slender pedicellar part, erect.
Petioles in the leaves of the upper part of the' plant very long, smooth
on the upper surface, plano-convex. Leaflets narrowly linear. Beak
of the outer spathe furnished with lonff sub-bristly spines at its base
79. D. Treubianus.
Petiole» rather .hort, biconvex. Leaflets of tbe leaves of the „ppe, part
ot the plant leather short, hiear-lanceolate, broadest about thoir middle
20. D. Sepal.
Petiole of the leaves of the upper aud fertile part of the plant very
long^ flattened .ub-b.oonvez; leaflet. linear. Fruit spherical, about 18
mm. in diameter; its scales straw-coloured.
27. 0. pseudo-sepal.
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22. D. imbellis.
23. D. Scortschinii.
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24. D. singa/anus.
B. Stem erect. Radical leaves very diilerent from the upper ones not
otrnferous, wrth a long terete petiole. Upper leaves with a plauo- onve.
petiole, usually short or almost obsolete. » «-onvex
(j) Spadica ralliir didant one from tht other.
Outer spathe acutely two-keeled. Fruit globular eouieally
25. 0. monticolus.