Demono?ops.] ` oam. PALMER, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 471 
PENANG, Lewes, PERAK, alt. 2-3500 ft, King’s Collector (2931, 2735, 6306, 
9). SINGAPORE, Lobb. 
Stem stout 20-25 ft , scandent; nodes swollen. Leaves 10~14 ft.; leaflets 16-20 
y §-1 in, margins quite smooth, long tips setose; petiole stout, spines on lower 
Portion often ternate with the central 6-7 in. long and slender but stiff. Spathes 
all deciduons, upper thinly coriaceous, unarmed. Spadizx (geniculate, Griff.) 3 tt. ; 
peduncle 6-12 in., flattened, with marginal spines, not 2-edged; spikes j-$ in., 
Spreading, with the flowers $ in. broad. Male flowers most densely imbricate, 
horizontal in two series, } in. long and narrow; spathellules quite entire; 
calyx shortly cylindric, striate ; corolla terete, four times as long, smooth, not 
striate, very marrow, Fruit 2 in. long, shortly pedicelled; sometimes almost 
ellipsoid, pale dull yellowish brown ; scales with a shallow channel and brown 
margin, here may be more than one species included here, the fruiting spadices 
of Nos. 576 and 7849 look very diferent, No. 576 from Goping Perak has 
the slender fruiting spadix, with distant fruits, as in Griffith’s figure. No. 2735 
rom Perak is a male plant and has the mouth of the sheath with needle-shaped spines, 
No. 2931 from Perak has the very long spires on the petiole. No. 7849 from Perak 
315 the branches of the fruiting spadix as broad as long with very short stout 
internodes and stout spikes 4-6 in. long; it most resembles the Penang form. 
f "3 Onter spathe lanceolate, slenderly 2-keeled, wholly deciduous after 
Owerng, Leaf sheaths armed with isolated or confluent spines, not 
annular crests, Spadix elongate. 
1 27. D. longipes, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 329, t. 176, f. v. 2, 8, 
*afleta equidistant linear-lanceolate or ensiform subulate-acuminate 
margins and tips bristly 3 cost setulose above or on both surfaces, petiole 
ärer below and armed with long irregular spines, channelled above, with 
ed margins, rachis triangular with solitary short dorsal teeth, sheath 
amed with broad stout flat solitary or seriate spines mixed with bristles, 
‘Pathes narrowly lanceolate long acuminate unarmed, spadix very long 
^! £-peduneled, spikes flexuous, fruit ovoid-oblong shortly stipitate, beak 
ai": Mig. E. Ind. Bat. ii. 93; Walp. Ann. Wi, 478, v. 828. D. 
strictus, Blume Rumph. iii. 19, t. 163 A, B; Mart. l. e. 326. Mig. Le 86; 
Ppl. 250; in Journ. Bot. Neel. i. 18; Walp. l. e. 474, 827. Calamus 
oye Pes, Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hisl. v. 68; Palms Brit. Ind. 78, t. 
A,B (excl, syn. Rumph.). C. strictus, Mig. Palm. Archip. Jnd. 28. 
Matacoa, Fernandez, Mai Hervey.— DisTRIB. Sumatra, Banca. 
leaflets’, With the AN 12 fc ; petiole 2 ft., young floccosely scurfy ; 
ets 12 ]4 by 12 in. Spathes long and narrow, thinly coriaceous, nearly or 
quite unarmed, young scurfy. Male spadiv nodding; peduncle 2 ft., 2-edged, 
narmed oy with a few marginal spines; branches decompound ; spikes Flin, very 
erecto., And zig-zag, spatheilules (or bracts ?) very minute. Blowers i Wi ong, 
long, Patent ; calyx obtusely toothed, quite glabrous, striate; petals ard y ` c : 
A not striate, Fruiting spadix large, very broad, much branched ; brane ies no 
shorti "UUfy; spikes 3-5 in. Fruit } in. apart, $ in. long; calyx very 
the Pedicelled, broadly campanulate, 3-lobed to the middle lobes appresse 
channe Se of the fruit; scales pale yellow-brown, shining, concolorous, 10 
See 4. Seeds oblong; albumen strongly ruminate; embryo basal Gri ith 
i M D D *. F a e 
imperfect alamus longipes as having equidistant leaflets, his spe 
i inequidistant as 
show this character. In Maingay’s specimen they are incqui i 
Probab by Blume in his D. strictus. As in other species the costæ of the leaflets 
y vary much as to being more or less setulose on one or both surfaces. 
Besi IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. aod 
des enumerating the above more or less imperfectly described species, 
