1 4 4 ANNALS OP THE BOTAL BOTANIC GARDEN, OALCUTIA. [/), OBLOTTGUS
ovoid ; scales with a narrow, dark-brown, iatra-marginal line all round. Seed ovoid,
8 - 8 - 5 mm. long.
D. Curranii from Mindanao differs from that growing in Palawan in its leaflets
h a v i n g t bristly-spinulous nerves above instead of 3, and by the pedicellar part
of the spadix being entirely covered with stiff bristles, which are united in their
basal parts, and form thick callous sub-cristate bodies. The fruit and the seed seem
also more ovoid in the Mindanao than in the Palawan plant.
PLATE 58.—Daemonorops Curranii Beca. Leaf; fruiting spadis, and near this
a female spadis in flower from the Palawan plant (No. 3791 Herb. Manill.); poi-tion
of a leaf-sheath and fragments of tlie spadix (ou the left side of the plate) from
Mindanao, (Clemens, No. 1280 Herb, ManilL).
54. DAEMONOKOPS OBLONGDS B1. Rumphia, iii, pi. 140, 141, .1845?) and
pi. 142 f, D. (excluding figs. A, B. C. which belong to 0. adspmus)
and p. 25. (this page published in 1819 according to Martius,
Hist. Palm, iii, 326, foot n o t e ) ; Mart. 1. c. 205 (2nd edit.j and
3 2 6 ; Walp. Ann. iii, 477 and v, 828; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. iü, 91;
Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bog. 74.
Calamus oilongus Reinw. in Bl. Cat. Hort, Bait. 59 (as f r om Bl.) and in
l e t t e r s to Martius in Mart. 1. c. iii, 207 (1st edit.) and 1. c. pi. 160 f. IV,
1 - 3 (fruit o n l y ) ; Roem. &. Schult. Syst. Veget. vii, 2, 1323 (only
as to the Javan plant, all other synonyms excluded) ; Kunth, Enum. PI.
iii, 206 ; Miq. De Palmis Arc. Ind. 28.
Calamxis platyacantJm Mart. I.e. 206, 1st. edit, (only as to the plant from
J a v a and excl. syn.) pi. 160 (excl. f. V and IV, which figures belong
t o C. adspersus)-, Kunth Enum. PI. iii, 205 (excl. many syn.); Miq. De
Palmis Arc. Ind. p. 28.
ityacanthus Mai-t. I. c, 204 and 328 ; Walp. Ann. iii, 477 and
; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 90.
, 21, pi. 135 D. E. and pi. ^ D (excluding
to D. Hystriz).
Daemonoro-ps Jdrsutus Bl. Rumphia,
pi. 135 figs. A. B. C , which
DESCSIPTIOS.—Scandent, of middle or rather large size. SMaihed stem 3-4 cm.
i n diameter. Leaf-slmaths gibbous above, fugaciously rusty-furfuraeeous, their
mouths very peculiarly armed with several erect, very long (10-li> cm.), straight, flat,
t h i n l y laminar, 2-4 mm. broad at the base, blackish or spadicoous spines, which
when very numerous are obliquely inserted and imbricate, e.specialiy on the anticous
p a r t of the mouth; the spines which cover tiie surface of the sheaths are shorter
t h a n those round the mouth, but of the same type, and are usually 2-4 cm. long
aQd up to 4-5 mm. broad at the base, very thinly laminar, almost foliaceous,
D. obhngus] BECCAUI. THE SPECIES OP IIAEMONOIÌOÌ'S. ^4.5
fringed-furfuraceous on the edges when young, naiTovvly lanceolate-acuminate, solitary
or seriate or conflueut as well and half-verticilled, horizontal or deflexed. Ocrea
very short. Leaves rather large, l ' 3 - l - 5 m. long in the pinniferous part,
t e r m i n a t i n g in a more or le.ss clongato cirrus; petiole elongate {30-50 cm. long},
light-coloured, slightly flattened, equally convRS on both surfaces,, its edges obtuse,
more or less armed throughout with straight, ascendent, spreading or divergent
spines from a few nnn. to 1-4 cm. in length; the spines are usually longest
near the base; the upper surface is smooth or sparsely-prickly, underneath it is
usufilly armed along the centre and specially near the baso with a line ot
long, straight, deflexed spines ; the rachis in its lower portion has a more or
less distinct groove on each side for the insertion of the leaflets, and is convex
above, the convexity gradually becoming a very acute, salieut angle, more or less
spiiiuloiis towards the upper end ; underneath, the rachis is at first armed with
sohtary, then with 3-5-nate, and on the cirrus with half-whorled claws; leaflets
very numerous, equidistant also in the terminal part, 2-3 em. apart, often almost
opposite, papyraceous, rather rigid, green, concolorous on both surfaces, linenrlanceolate,
broadest in the aùddle and thenca gradually acuminate to a very
slender, subulate, more or less bri.stly tip, 2-5-30 cm. long, 15-18 mm. broad, tho
upper leaflets somewhat smaller; on the upper surface t h e y are tricostulate, or have
the mid-costa acute (bristly-spmulous towards the upper end), with one secondary
nerve stronger than the others on each side of it, and bristly from a little abOTO
the base ; underneath are 5 nerves not very closely nor very minutely bristly -,
transverse veinlets rather numerous, and rather sharp on both surfaces, much
i n t e r r u p t e d ; margins minutely, closely, and not very appressedly spinnlous. Spadices,
male and female, e i t e r n a l l y very jiruilar, elongate, cylindraoeons, slender, as thick as
a mau's linger, slightly curved, witli a very short prickly peduncular part or almost
sessile; primary spathes thickly coriaceous, at first tubular and slightly ear-shaped,
obliquely truncate, and usually shortly bidentate, each of them protruding a good deal
beyond that immedrately below; the ontermost long persistent after flowering,
more or less flat or slightly concave, at least in its upper part, then spathulatecuneiform,
being broadest near the apex, and thence g r a d u a l l y narrowing towards the
base, glabrous and glossy internally, grayish or rusty-furfuraceous or at times glabrescent
e r f s r n a l l y , armed more or less on the back, especially near its base, with flat usually
triangular, short and broad, but occasionally elongate, scattered or confluent, and seriate
or else digitate spines; not unfrequently a few long, slender, erect spines ate to be
found near the upper end; inner spathes smaller, deciduous, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
g r a d u a l l y less spinous, the otliers unarmed; the axial parts more or less covered
with a , thin rusty-furiuraceoas, partially evanescent indumentum. Male spadin
usually smaller than the female one, 30-50 cm. long; the flowering panicle very slender
and strict, its mam axis snbtorete and 3-5 mm. in diam. at its base,
angular and as thick as a pack-thread upwards; partial inflorescences 6-8, a
tho main axis, narrowly fastigiate-cnpressiform, 7-10 cm. long and with 8 - 1 0 branchl
e t s ; secondary spathes very small, scale-like, extended at one side into an erect
t r i a n g u l a r , acute point; bianohlets with 8 - 1 0 fastigiate, gradually shortening spikelets
the largest (lowest) of these are 10-12 mm, long a n d have 10-12 u n i l a t e r a l l y set flowers,
which are usually in pairs; the upper spikelets are gradually shorter and have fewer
ANS. ROT. BOT. GATÌD. GAicurrA, VOL. S I I.