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all to be included in the group with Daemonorops lamprolepis 

 Becc. Our present new species is more like Daemonorops 

 oligolepis Becc. than to Daemonorops pannosus Becc, differing 

 from the former in its smaller dimensions; in the leaflets 

 having 3 bristly nerves above and terminating into a 

 filamentous apex; and especially it differs from Daemon- 

 orops oligolepis Becc. in having globosely ovoid fruits with 

 more numerous scales and in the globose not at all 

 depressed seeds. 



Daemonorops pedicellaris Becc. sp. nov Daemonorops 

 Curranii Becc. in As. Palm. Ann. Roy. Gard. Calc. XU, 

 i. 142 (as to the plant from Mindanao only, and to the 

 3 figures on the left hand side of plate 58). 



Mediocris, caudice viginato 18 25 mm. diam.; vaginis 

 in ore nudis, caeterum -spinis inaequalibus acicularibus 

 dense obsitis; frondium segmentis in pagina superiori secus 

 neivos 5, et subtus incosta media tantum setosis, majo- 

 ribus 30 cm. longis, 15-20 mm. latis; spathis spines gra- 

 cilibus acicularibus praeditis; spicis floriferis 4 5 cm. 

 longis, patentibus, paucifloris, fructibus ovoideoellipticis, 

 breviter obtuseque rostratis, 12-17 mm. longis, 9-11 mm. 

 crassis, ab involucrophoro conspicue pedicelliforme et 4-6 

 mm. longo suffultis. 



Scandent and of moderate size or rather slender. 

 Sheathed stem 18 to 25 mm. in diameter, naked canes 

 10 1 to 15 mm. thick. Leaf sheaths very densely armed 

 with closely and irregularly seriate unequal narrowly 

 inear dark brown or nearly black spines 10 to 15 mm. in 

 length; often the spines are so slender as to resemble 

 bristles. Sheath orifice thin, dry, brittle and unarmed. 

 Leaves about 1 m. long m the pinniferous part; petiole 10 

 to 20 cm. long, flattened, variously prickly especially 

 along the edges; rachis spinulous on the upper side, 

 armed beneath with seriate or half whorled claws; the 

 cirrus similarly clawed at approximate and regular intervals. 

 Leaflets numerous, equidistant, linearly lanceolate, subu- 

 late ly acuminate to a&l,form bristly tip, thinly chartaceous, 

 concolorous and sublucid on both surfaces, usually bristly^ 

 along the 5 nerves on the upper side and on the midvein 

 beneath; the margins closely and spreadingly spinous 

 transverse veinlets short, not numerous nor verv aooarenV 

 the intermediate leaflets about 30 cm long 10 to 20 

 rnrn^ broad the upper leaflets gradually reduced. Spadix 

 rather slender, at first erect, later nodding, 50 to 60 

 cm. long, the pedicellate portion more or less provided 



