DtsmonoropsJ] CLXIJI. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 465 



longer, linear. Seed globose, muriculate ; albumen foveolately ruminate. Griffith 

 sajs " with difficulty distinguishable from granns, and chiefly by the very slender 

 more numerous deflexed spines of the spathe." 



8. D. Sepal ? Becc. tn$s,\ leaflets rather numerous equidistant nar- 

 rowly linear finely acuminate setulose on the 3 costae above and margins, 

 rachis armed with 3-tid claws, petiole dorsally compressed armed with 

 scattered and clustered short straight flattened spines, sheaths with sub- 

 seriate flat spines their mouth with long spines, outer spathes long- beaked 

 dorsally armed with flat slender and shorter clustered spines, fruiting 

 spadix nodding or pendulous, fruit obovoid. 



PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector (4133) ; on Gunong Tambang, Scorte- 

 chini (433 b ). 



Stem 20-30 ft., Hf i"- aiam. Leaves 6-8 ft. ; leaflets 8-12 by -f in. ; spines 

 of sheath f in. long, mixed at the juncture with the petiole with more slender 

 shorter black ones. Fruit f in. long, abruptly beaked, light brown, glossy ; scales 

 deeply channelled, margins brown ; fruiting calyx pedicelliform, lobes broad ; petals 

 twice as long. 



9. S>. Pseudosepalj Becc. mss. ; leaflets not numerous very long and 

 narrow setiferous on the 3 costae above and median beneath, petiole with 

 scattered very short spines except at the base where longer and more 

 slender, sheath with very long elastic flat seriate spines, mouth nearly 

 naked, fern, spadix short, fruit globose with a short broad mucro. 



PBRAK ; alt. 300 ft., King's Collector (7975) ; ScortecMni. 



Stem 10-15 ft., nearly f in. diam. Leaves 3-4 ft. ; leaflets inequidistant, dark 

 green, -|-f in. broad ; petiole 15-18 in., armed on the back and margins. Fruit 

 f in. diam., pedicelled, dirty yellow; scales few, channelled, margins narrowly 

 scarious, tips discoloured ; fruiting calyx not pedicelliform. Affinity doubtful from 

 want of spathes. 



10. D. Iiewislanus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 327, 1. 175, f. iv. ; leaflets 

 equidistant approximate linear bristle-pointed costse 3 setulose above 

 nearly naked beneath, margins appressedly setulose, petiole dorsally armed 

 with hooked spines and long flat straight whorled and solitary ones, mar- 

 gins with shorter conical spines, sheath armed with solitary or seriate 

 black flat spines, outer scathe shortly beaked armed with weak deflexed 

 long black spines, inner with 2 rows of slender spines, spadix as in D. 

 intermedium, but branches more slender and less scurfy, fruiting spadix 

 erect, fruit spherical. Calamus Lewisianus, Griff, in Colo. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. v. 87 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 94, t. 212 A. 



PENANG-; Lewis. 



Stem scandent.with the sheaths about 1 in. diam. Petiole about 1 ft., base 

 much swollen and then armed with scattered short deflexed spines, and above with 

 spines 1 in. long ; leaflets 13-15 by f-1 in. Outer spathe 3-9 in. ; peduncle armed 

 with flat spines, beak one-third the length of the body. Male and fern, spadix as 

 long as the ?pathe ; flowers scurfy, males most so. Male calyx obtusely toothed, 

 margins bearded ; fruiting petals twice as long. Fruit pale yellowish; scales in 15 

 rows, blackish towards the margin. Descript. chiefly from Martius and Giiffith. 



** Stems erect or subscandent, upper leaves alone withflagella. 



11. D. monticolus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 328, t. 175, f. v. ; 

 leaves petioled, leaflets equidistant alternate linear-subulate acuminate, 

 costaD o all bristly above naked beneath except the median at the apex, 



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