238 RRCCARI, 
foriiiing a pedicel, very broadly obconic or almost explanate. Fruit 
spherical surmouuted by a very short beak, 15 mm. in diameter: scales 
in 18 longitudinal series, of a reddish straw-yellow color, with a narrow, 
darker intro-marginal line, and scarious finely erosely toothed margins, 
rather convex, broadly and rather deeply channeled and with a triangular ' ^ 
rather obtuse point. Seed globular, 10-11 mm. in diameter, with a not 
very closely pitted surface; the chalazal fovea indistinct and very 
superficial; albumen ruminate; embryo basal, 
Unisan, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, G. Reyes, October, 1904, 
The type specimen is the teniiinal part of a fruiting apadix only. Tlie leaves 
wliich, I suppose, belong to this sp;ulix, are much like those of Calamus palustris, 
to which this species is related, but from which it is distinguished by its perfectly 
spherical fruit. The leaves mentioned above belong, very probably, to the lower 
part of the stem, aa some of them are perii)innate and one terminates vvitli a 
sliort rudimentary cirrus, the leaflets are not numerous, are very inequi distant, 
approximate in groups of 2 or 3 on each side of the rachis, with long internodcs 
between each group; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 15-28 cm. long, concavo-convex, 
suddenly contracted into a bristly tip, shining above, paler and dull beneath, 
with 5 tenuous but ncnte cnstjc above and with numerous sharp, suhparallel 
transverse veinlcts. 
DAEMONOROPS Blame, 
Daemonorops Curranii Becc. n. sp, (Sect. IHptospatha) . 
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Non alte scandons (?). Vaginae !Folia in cirrum gracilcm 
solito mode seniiverticillatini acileatum abeuntia; raehide superne spinu- 
losa. Segmenta numerosa acquidistantis, circitcr 4 cm. inter se remota, 
auguste lanceolata vel lanceolato-ensiformia ; intermedia 33-40, cm. 
longa, 17-20 mm. lata, aerum pars latior paullo supra basin, in costa me- 
dia prope apicem et secus nervos duo superne spinulosa; subtus in costa 
-media tantum minute spinuloso-setosa, Spadix circiter GO cm. longus, 
inapertus auguste cylindraceus, parte pedicellari brevi spinosa suffultus, 
Spathae coriaeeae, elongato-spatulatae ; inferior extus undique spinis 
brevibus deflexis plus minusve digitato-seriatis armato, supcriores in 
dorso prope apicem tantimi spinosae. Panicula fructifera elongato- 
oblonga, spiels majoribus 3.5^.5 cm. longis, utrinque distice 6-9-floris; 
earum axis acute xig-zag sinuo.sa. Involucrophorum breviter pedicelli- 
forme, 1-2 mm. longum, in axilla callosum apice truncatum. Invo- 
lucruni apice planum orbiculare, limbo angustissimo anulari cintum, 
involucrophorum breviter superans. Florisa neutri areola parva concava 
aedicolaris non tumescons, perianthium fructiferum late obeonicum. 
Pructus sphericus breviter conice rostratus 12 mm. diametro, squamis 
per orthostichas 12-14 ordinatis, stramineis. Semen globosum, leviter 
depressum, tuberculato-alveolatum 8 mm, diametro. 
Apparently scandent and of moderate size. Leaf-sheaths 
Leaves terminated with a not very long and slender cirrus, which is 
very regularly armed with approximate half-wliorls of very sharp con- 
