1 0 2 ANNALS OP THE ROYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA. [/). /amprolepi'S.
leaflets (no others seen by me) are about 60 cm. long, 2'o cm. broad. Male spadiz . . .
Female spadix apparently elongate, strict, covered with a thin furfuracous tobaccobrown
induiuentum; its peduncular part very densely and irregularly armed with innuiaerable,
narr'iwly laminar, elastic, unequal, subulate, dark-brown spines; the main axis
s l i g h t ly flattened at. t h e base and 9 mm. broad; piiuiary s p a t h i - s , . . ; partial inflorescences
erect, appressed to the main axis; the only one seen by me (apparently one of the
lowest) is ¿0 cai. long, rigid, and has 5 spikelets oa each sido ; the maiu axis,
a n d the axee of the spikelets, are irregularly angular and covered with a dense,
a d h e r e n t , tobacco-brown ¡icurf; secondary spathes and spathels inconspicuous, very
shortly annular ; the spikelets have Ttry thick axes, are 6 cm. long, and have two
s l i g h t l y assurgent series of 6-7 flowers each ; involucrophorum very short and thick,
a n g u l a r , obconical, extanded at one side into a broadly tiiangulaf and short bracteif
o rm point; involucrft slightly raised above the involucrophorum, flat, discoid, with
a very narrow rim; areola of the neuter flower concave and sublunate. Fruiting
peñanih explánate. Fruit spherical, 17-18 mm. in diam.; scales arranged in 15
longitudinal series, each series composed of six scales not taking into account the
iU-conformod apical ones; they are glossy and ventricose, light greenish-yellow in
colour convex, grooved along the ceutre, with a very narrow, scarious, finely erose
margin, and an obtuse point. globular, deeply ruminated.
HABITAT.—Bojong in the Province of Minahassa in N. Celebes, {Warburg in
H e i b . Berol.).
OB3ERVATIOI?s. — A p p a r e n t l y related to D. macroptcrus, but the fruit is spherical,
PLATE 39,—Üaemonorops robustus Warb. The type specLmeu in the Herbarium
at Berlin.
35. DAEJIOÍJOKOPS LAMPKOLEPIS Becc. in Rsc. Bot. Surv. Ind. li, 223.
DESCRIPI'ION.—Scandent. Sheathed sicm about 2 ' c n i . in dinmeter. strongly
gibbous above, covered more or less with an adherent, tobacco-coloured scurf and
a r m e d with numerous, weak, thinly laminar, sometimes Lciniate, acicular, unequal,
1 - 2 cm long (at times oven shorter), setiform, solitary, scattered, ascendent or
spreading, brown-spadiceuus spine.s, which rise f r om small bulbous bases. Leaves about
Vo m long in ilie pini.iferoua part, t e r m i n a t i n g in a slender, clawed cirrus about 80
cm long; the petiole rather short, about U cm. long, 10-12 mm. broad, biconvex,
somewhat flattened, with acute edges, almost s-.nooth underneath, armed on the upper
surface especially near the edge, with smaU, straight, erect, slender, ncicular spmes; the
rachis armed along the centre of the convex dorsum with rather strong claws that
become ternate near the apo^., and S-nate and half-whorled on the cn-rus and have a
s t r o n g and swollen base; on the upper surface the racliis is first convex and
I n ed with sm.ll, ascendent prickles, becoming bifaced higher up with a sahent und
S w angle. Le.fiets numerous, equidistant, 2-d cm. apart, and ensiform; tlie
^ V r m e d i a t e about 30 cu,. long, 17-18 mm. broad, papyraceous, green and concolorous
' n both surfaces, broadest about the middle, narrowing thence to a r a t h e r acute baso
1 and to a t^raJually acuminate and filamentoso tip above; the mid-costa not
r robust, a c u t e ; witli a very few bnstl.s, and these only near the tip; ouo
I d r nerve on each side of the mid-costa bears many long and spadiceous bristles;
D. lairtprolepis.'] B E C C A E I . T H E S P E 0 I E 8 OF DAÉMONOEOPS.
a not very regular line of similar long bristles on the lower surface on the mid
costa o n l y ; transverse veinlets not very d i s t i n c t ; margins very minutely, closely and
appressedly spinulous; the lower margin bordered on its upper surface hy a very
n a r r ow glossy band. Male spadix Female spadiic before flowering pendulous,
v e r y long and slender, no thicket- than a man's little finger, cylindraceous, 40 cm.
long (including a pedicellar p a r t \ 10-12 m)n. t h i c k ; the pedicellar part itself is 12-15
cm. long and passes very gradually into the outer spathe; it is slender, flattened,
armed very densely, especially towards the apex, with unequal, acicuiar, flat, scattered
or fascicled and i r r e g u l a r l y set, erect, spreading or deflexed spines, 1 - 2 e n . long;
t h e outer spathe is coriaceous, very rigid, very narrowly lanceolate, almost flat, with
revolute margins when open, and narrows to an acuminate, e.'iternally densely crinite
t i p ; externally it is not or only very obsoletely [two-keeled and covered throughout
w i t h a thin, adherent, brown indumentum, and armed sparingly, on the boily, with
solitai'y, scattered, rigid, 1-2 cm. long, criniform spiculae which rest on small bulbous
bases- within it is glabrous, finely striate and of a cinnamon-rod colour; the inner spathes
( t h e r e are only 3) are coriaceous, elongate, narrowly-lanceolate, acuminate, and protrude
v e r y slightly and gradually one out of the other, all rusty-furfuraceous and densely
c r i n i t e (externally) at their apices, elsewhere smooth. Fruiting panicle 20-2o cm.
long, rigid, cupvessiform, densely flowered, with only 3 partial inflorescences; all the
axial parts are covered with an adherent, tobacco-coloured scurf ; the p a r t i a l inflorescences
a r e 8-10 cm. long and have 4-6 distichous spikelets on each side; secondary spathes
are reduced to a narrow scarious ring slightly produced at one side into a small
t r i a n g u l a r p o i n t ; the spikelets are 3-5 cm. long, and have 4-6 iiregnlurly
distichous flowers on each s i d e ; spathels reduced to a narrow scarious ring slightly
produced at one side into a small triangular acute point; involucrophorum pedicelliform,
trigonous, slightly obconical, 2-3 mm. long, slightly ext<>nded at the apex
i n t o a r u d i m e n t a r y limb on one side; involucre slightly raised above the involucro.
p h o r um by a short and thick, angular, pedicellar part, flat above aud with a very
n a r r ow and rudimentary limb ; areola of the neuter flower niche like. Female flowers
6 mm. long, ovoid, acute; the calyx very short, subpateriform, truncate, entire,
s t r o n g l y veined; the corolla several times longer than the calyx, ventricose at the
base, and divided to below the middle into 3 elongate-triangular, often sinuous,
acuminate, and finely striate segments; the stigmas thickly subulate, shorter than the
segments of the corolla during anthesis. i^eufer flowers sinuous-lanceolate, acucninate,
5 mm. l o n g ; the calyx very shortly cupular and entire; the corolla several timcg
longer than the calyx, finely striate. Fruiting spadix erect, or nodding, forming an
elongate-ovoid panicle. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoidal, almost; equally narrowing towards
both ends, obtusely conic-mammillate at the apex, 15 mm, long, 11 — K - S mm, bn.ad;
scales in 15 longitudinal series, light greenish-yellow, glossy but with a very narrow,
dull margin, narrowly grooved along the centre, otherwise convex, point obtuse.
Seed ovoid, boldly tiibercled and coarsely p i t t e d ; albumen ruminate.
HABITAT.—I gathered this species at Lepo-Lepo near Kandari in S. E. Celebes,
J u l y 1874.
OBSERVATIONS.—The fruit is somewhat smaller, but otherwise very similar in
shape, aa also in the structure and colour of the scales, to that of Z>, macropierus, to
which D. lamprolepis in evidently related, though of much smaller dimensions.