468 CLXII PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Demonorops. 
. pedicelled ; scales naturally whitish but incrusted with red gum. Seeds rarely 2, 
subconical, dorsally alveolate and tubercled with a deep lateral cleft.—The Perak 
fruits are accompanied by ensiform leaflets 2 ft. long by 2 in. broad with aculeolate 
margins. Beccari doubts their belonging to the same species as the fruits. —The 
seeds of Griffith's plant are globose and smooth. J.D.H. 
17. D. didymophyllus, Becc. mss.; leaflets in distant opposite or 
alternate pairs broadly ensiform or elliptic, costz;» and margins quite 
smooth, fruit as in D. propinquus, but with less resin. 
PERAE, Scortechini; alt. 2500-3000 ft., King’s Collector (2593, 5704, 6313). 
Jouore, Kurz.—DISTRIB. Sumatra. 
Stem 20-3) ft., scandent. Leaves 5-7 ft.; leaflets 8-16 by 1-2} in. acute, 
many-nerved, quite smooth on both surfaces, as are the margins; petiole 2-3 ft, 
and rachis semiterete, both armed with scattered small short stout nearly straight 
spines and tubercles; rachis armed with distant solitary spines and 3-fid claws; 
sheaths scurfy, armed with very broad flat spines, mouth oblique naked. Spathes 
coriaceous, flat, lower 6-10 in., transversely armed with mauy series of confes 
short irregular spines; upper persistent, smaller. Spadiz erect; peduncle arm 
with strong straight flat scattered spines; spikes densely fascicled, slender, erect 
flexuous. Fruit 2 in. diam., cuspidate, red brown, and explanate calyx as n 
propinquus. 
18. D. leptopus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 206, 329; leave 
petioled, leaflets many equidistant narrowly linear-lanceolate caudate- 
acuminate, costæ.3 all naked, or setulose beneath near the margins, Wem 
very stout armed with short stout simple and 2-J-fid claws, petiole arm 
with ‘short solitary spines, sheath swollen at the petiole armed w 
fascicled or seriate flat spines, outer spathe with revolute n e 
towards the open tip, keels 2 armed with stout spines, fruit ov” e 
ellipsoid. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii.99; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 818. Calan 
Ad "A E rif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 73; Palms Brit. rs 
MALACCA, Grifith. Prrax, King’s Collector (4774, 5919) ; Scortechini. 
_ Stem scandent, 20-30 ft., sheaths about lin. dem. ? Leaflets 15-16 by 5 t, 
tip capillary bristly, rachis as thick as the thumb, subbiconvex; petiole siot iD 
trigonous ; lower spines 1 in. and upwards. Spathes coriaceous, lower 9-9 e 
lanceolate, open, tip flat broad; upper open much longer than their 
Spadia 3-4 ft, very slender; peduncle stoutly armed, branches erect, o 
spikes 14-3 in., flexuous, flowers unilateral. Calyx rather large, teeth acute, - on 
ventricose. Fruit $ in. long, pedicelied by the calyx and spathellules, daf, 
brown, scales deeply channelled. Seed with a hard resinous coat, chalaza groove i 
albumen ruminate; embryo basal.—The young spadix resembles D. propinquis, 
mature is more like D. Hystrie.—Descript. chiefly from Griffith. 
s long: 
tt Mouth of leaf-sheath armed with long flat erect spines; fruit ST 
sparingly resiniferous. 
19. D. Hystrix, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 205, 328, t m 
3-4 ; leaflets very many equidistant narrow setaceously acuminate, d with 
and 3 costa setulose on both surfaces, rachis clawed, petiole amo very 
scattered long straight and short spines sheath swollen armed wit ]iptit 
ong ( i the small el T 
ickly armed upwards with strong long spines, fruiting SpA 
spreading branches and spikes, fruit ellipsoid long-pedicelled. ig. F Le 
Bat. iii. 91; Walp. Ann. ii. 477, v. 898. D. hirsutus, Blume Bu” 
