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BECCARI. 



DAEMONOROPS Bl. 



Daemonorops Margaritae (Hance) var. palawanicus Becc. var. now 

 It is the first and only species of Daemonorops of the group of Cymbospathn to 

 be discovered in tile Philippine Islands. 1 have referred it to I). Margarita:, a 

 species indigenous to southern China, from which it differs in the seed, which is 

 more or less globular, and obsoletely 3-BOnoUfl, and cm not lie called reniform, as 

 that of I). Margaritae is described as being. 



Palawan, near Iwahig, Bur. Sci. 899 Foxworthy, May, 1906. 



Daemonorops ochrolepis Becc. var. radulosus var. now 



This differs from the "forma typica" in the petiole, and the fust 

 portion of the rachis, being densely prickly on both surfaces; the upper 

 salient angle of the rachis is also spimilous throughout 1o the end of 

 the pinniferous part. 



Li /on. Province of Tayahas, Maul.an, For. liur. 10190 Gurran, March, 1908. 

 1 also refer here a specimen collected at Camp Keithlev. Lake Lanao, Mindanao. 

 Mn. Clemens 898, January, 1907, the fruits globose-ovoid, 15 mm in diameter 

 (very immature), and also Loher 7078, male specimen, from the Province of Ri/al, 



Luzon, April. 1905. 



Daemonorops Curranii Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 238. 



To this species must be referred an unnumbered specimen collected by Mrs. 

 Mary Strong Clemens in Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, September, 1907; 

 it differs however from the type which was collected by Curnut in Palawan 

 (For. Bur. 3791), in the leaflets which have 5 bristly nerves above instead of :5, 

 and in the pedicellar part of the spadix which is entirely covered with stiff bristle-, 

 which unite in their basal part to form several callous, subcristate bodies; the 

 fruit and the seed, seem also to be more ovoid in the Mindanao than in the 

 Palawan plant. 



Daemonorops Clemensianus Becc. sp. nov. 



Scandcns, caudicilms vaginatis circiter 2 cm diametro; vaginae undique 

 spinis tenuibus nigrescentibus breviter seriatis obsessis et in ore spin is 

 rmmerosis laminaribua crebre imbricatis, valde elongatis (8-12 cm longis, 

 2-4 mm latis) armatae, frondium petiolus circiter 2.1 cm longus, bicon- 

 vexus, circum et ad margines spinis rectis armatus; rhachis supra levis; 

 cirrus gracilis; pars pinnifera circiter 1-3 in longa, aegmentia rmmerosis, 

 subaequidistantibus 2.5-3.5 cm inter se remotis, lineari-ensiformibus, 

 supra sccus ncrvos 3 spinulosis, subtus in costs media tantiini setis long- 

 nisculis praeditia : segmentis intermediis 40-42 cm longis, 13—15 mm 

 latis. Spadix masculna 50-60 cm longus, atrichia, parte pedicellari 6-10 



cm longa et dense spiculi lent siiU'iiltus; spat bis primariis ill apicem del- 



toideum apiculiferum product is; spatha extima Bpiculia fasciculatis plus 

 mimisve praedita; floribua masculia circiter I mm longis, calyce breviter 

 cyathiformi. Spadix foeminena rigidus, parte pedicellari spiculia densis 

 et basj confluentibufl ac callosis praeditus, in plurimaa approximates in- 

 fiorescentiaa partialea, 10-16 cm longas. diyisua; Bpicia majoriboa 5— 1 

 cm longis, ntrinque 7- vel 8-floris; involucrophoro obconico, 3-1 mm longo. 

 Fructus majuseuli, Bphaerici, breviter lateque rostrato mammillati, 22 2 I 



