Demonorops.] ` oam. PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 465 
longer, linear. Seed globose, murienlate; albumen foveolately ruminate.— Griffith 
says “with difficulty distinguishable from grandis, and chiefly by the very slender 
more numerous deflexed spines of the spathe.” 
8. D. Sepal, Becc. mss.; leaflets rather numerous equidistant nar- 
towly linear finely acuminate setulose on the 3 coste above and margins, 
rachis armed with 3-tid claws, petiole dorsally compressed armed with 
scattered and clustered short straight flattened spines, sheaths with sub- 
seriate flat spines their mouth with long spines, outer spathes long-beaked 
dorsally armed with flat slender and shorter clustered spines, fruiting 
spadix nodding or pendulous, fruit obovoid. 
Perak, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector (4133) ; on Gunong Tambang, Scorte- 
chini (433b), 
Stem 20-30 ft., i-i in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft. ; leaflets 8-12 by 4-2 in. ; spines 
of sheath in, long, mixed at the juncture with the petiole with more slender 
shorter black ones, Fruit $in. long, abruptly beaked, light brown, glossy ; scales 
eeply channelled, margins brown ; fruiting calyx pedicelliform, lobes broad ; petals 
Wice as long, 
9. D. Pseudosepal, Becc. mss.; leaflets not numerous very long and 
narrow setiferous on the 3 costæ above and. median beneath, petiole with 
scattered very short spines except at the base where longer and more 
slender, sheath with very long elastic flat seriate spines, mouth nearly 
» fem, spadix short, fruit globose with a short broad mucro. 
PERAK; alt. 300 ft., King’s Collector (7975); Seortechini, ` 
Stem 10-15 ft., nearly $ in. diam. Leaves 3-4 ft.; leaflets inequidistant, dark 
green, 2-3 in. broad; petiole 16-18 in., armed on the back and margins. Fruit 
1 in, diam., pedicelled, dirty yellow; scales few, channelled, margins narrowly 
various, tips di ; fruiti icelli .—Affinity doubtful from 
want of vna coloured ; fruiting calyx not pedicelliform y 
10. D. Lewisianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 327, t. 175, f. iv.; leaflets 
equidistant approximate "linear bristle-pointed costs 3 setulose above 
nearly naked beneath, margins appressedly setulose, petiole dorsally armed 
with hooked Spines and long flat straight whorled and solitary ones, mar- 
‘with shorter conical spines, sheath armed with solitary or seriate 
pack flat spines, outer spathe shortly beaked armed with weak deflexed 
ong black Spines, inner with 2 rows of slender spines, spadix as in D. 
lermedius, but branches more slender and less scurfy, fruiting spadix 
mb fruit spherical, Calamus Lewisianus, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. 
ist. v. 87; Palms Brit. Ind. 94, t. 212 A. 
PENANG 3 Lewis. 
fem Scandent, wi in. di Petiole about 1 ft., base 
th the sheaths about 1 in. diam. 
d ‘wollen and then armed with scattered short deflexed spines, and above with 
spines 14 in. long ; leaflets 13-15 by $-lin. Outer spathe 3-9 in. ; peduncle armed 
wi flat Spines, beak one-third the length of the body. Male and fem. spadix as 
g as e spathe ; flow f t Male calyx obtusely toothed, 
ins | 3 er fy, males most so. ) ge 
win arded ; fruiting petals R wice as long. Fruit pale yellowish ; scalesiv 15 
, 
Ackish towards the margin.—Descript. chiefly from Martius and Griffith. 
H . 
Stems erect or subscandent, upper leaves alone with flagella. 
ll. p . iii. 328, t. 175, f. v.; 
: monticolus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. , t. , ! 
ea d 1 
i petioled, leaflets equidistant alternate linear-subulate acuminate, 
! , ' 
VOL, Re bristly above naked beneath except the median at the apex 
