Demonorops.] CLXIH. PALMEX, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 469 
Suppl. 593. Calamus Hystrix, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 71; 
Palms Brit. Ind. 80, t. 204, A, B, C} Miq. Palm Archip. Ind. 28. 
Matacca, Griffith; at Ager Punnus, Maingay. PERAK, Scortechint, King’s 
Collector (951).— DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. . 
Stem scandent, with the very stout sheaths 1} in. diam, ` Leaves 7-10 ft. ; rachis 
fagelliferous ; leaflets 10-18 by $-£ in. tips very slender, setulose costs sometimes 
9; petiole 1-2 ft.; sheath woody, scurfy, obliquely crossed with half-whorls of 
close set flat spines, of which the lower series are }-} in. long lanceolate very 
thin and appressed to the surface, the upper or oral enormously long, strict. 
Lowest spathe 4-5 in., almost woody, stoutly armed, not beaked ; upper narrower, 
more or less armed. Spadiz 2-3 ft., peduncle rather slender, armed ; spikes 2-3 in., 
scurfy, ascending, flexuous ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx cupular, teeth obtuse villous- 
tipped; corolla twice as long, ovoid. Fruit about $ in. long by à in. diam., pale 
Town, not shining, shortly mammillate ; scales obtuse, channelled, margins of channels 
rather elevated. Seed oblong, pitted, pits resinous; albumen deeply ruminate ; 
embryo basilar.— The enormous spines of the leaf-sheaths are a remarkable 
Character, . 
Var. minor, Becc. mss.; stem 2-8 ft., with the sheaths 1-2 in. diam., leaves 1—4 
+» leaflets 5-10 in, fruit much smaller.—Perak 300-1500 ft., King’s Collector 
(5097, 5142, 5486), 
20. D. Kunstleri, Becc. mss.; leaflets many equidistant linear 
setulose on the 3 coste above and median beneath, margins setulose, 
petiole robust scurfy margins armed with long stout spreading spines, 
sheath with many oblique series of long stout flat spines alternating with 
Shorter setiform ones, mouth with a few very long ones, lower spathe 
coriaceous softly scurfy keel spinous, peduncle of spadix long slender 
armed with whorls of spines, fruit globose top conical not beaked. 
PERAK ; Scortechini (652), King’s Collector (10,204). an . " 
, Stem erect, 2-3 ft., sheaths 3 in. diam. Leaflets 14-18 by 3-3 in., rachis arme 
with 3-fid, claws, Peduncle of spadix 8-10 in. Fruit 3 in. diam., tawny, top suddenly 
pontracted into a low cone; scales few, channelled, broad, margins not scarious and 
ebe discoloured ; fruiting calyx small, explanate. Seed subglobose.—1 have seen 
Y à portion of a leaf and of a fruiting spadix. 
21. D. vagans, Bece. mss. 
PERAK ; alt 40 i 
tem 3 alt, 4000-5000 ft., King’s Collector (4129). `. a 
a Stem scandent, sheaths 3 in, diam. Leafiets 14 by $ m., very narrow straight 
` finely acuminate. Fruit as in Kuntsleri vut smaller.—I have seen only a portion 
à leaf and fruit without calyx. 
** Outer s l] deciduous or the outer 
: athes at first tubular, then open, all deciduous | 
be Persistent, hardly spinous, but densely clothed with rigid needle-like 
Md Sheath of leaf with a spinulose membranous collar or ring. 
Padix elongate before flowering, then paniculate. 
ae D. Sabut, Becc. mss.; leaflets in fascicles of 9-10 in., the Tower 
la: of the rachis and 4-6 on the upper elongate oblanceolate sa el 
a onered to a setulose tip, margins and 3 costæ setulose above the me ‘an 
and beneath, petiole very stont stoutly armed with short and long ate e 
compound Spines, sheath with a toothed setulose and spinular mouth. 
PERAK Sc D 
» Scortechini (653b). . 
Internodes 6-8 in, with, a reversed membranous collar. Flagellum of rachis 
—I have seen no specimen. d. D.H. 
