468 CLXIII PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Dcemonofops. 



pedicelled ; scales naturally whitish but incrusted with red gum. Seeds rarely 2, 

 suboonical, dorsally alveolate and tubercled with a deep lateral cleft. The Perak 

 fruits are accompanied by ensiforra leaflets 2 ft. long by 2 in. broad with aculeolate 

 margins. Beccari doubts their belonging to the same species as the fruits. The 

 seeds of Griffith's plant are globose and smooth. J.D.H. > 



17. X>. didymophyllus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets in distant opposite or 

 alternate pairs broadly ensiform or elliptic, costae and margins quite 

 smooth, fruit as in D. propinquus, but with less resin. 



PERAZ, Scortechini ; alt. 2500-3000 ft., King's Collector (2593, 5704, 6313). 

 JOHORB, Kurz. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Stem 20-3 ) f t. , scandent. Leaves 5-7 ft.; leaflets 8-16 by 1-2 in., acute, 

 many-nerved, quite smooth on both surfaces, as are the margins ; petiole 2-3 ft., 

 and rachis semiterete. both armed with scattered small short stout nearly straight 

 spines and tubercles ; rachis armed with distant solitary spines and 3-fid claws; 

 sheaths scurfy, armed with very broad flat spines, mouth oblique naked. Spathes 

 coriaceous, flat, lower 6-10 in., transversely armed with many series of confluent 

 short irregular spines ; upper persistent, smaller. Spadix erect ; peduncle armed 

 with strong straight flat scattered spines; spikes densely fascicled, slender, erect, 

 flexuous. Fruit f in. diam., cuspidate, red brown, and explauate calyx as in D. 

 propinquus. 



18. D. leptopus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 206, 329; leaves Ion g- 

 petioled, leaflets many equidistant narrowly linear-lanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate, costae 3 all naked, or setulose beneath near the margins, rachis 

 very stout armed with short stout simple and 2-3-fid claws, petiole armed 

 with short solitary spines, sheath swollen at the petiole armed with 

 fascicled or seriate flat spines, outer spathe with revolute margins 

 towards the open tip, keels 2 armed with stout spines, fruit ovoid or 

 ellipsoid. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 99 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 818. Calamus 

 leptopus, Gri/. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 73; Palms Brit. Ind., 87, 

 t. 205, A, B. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERAK, King's Collector (4774, 5919) ; Scortechini. 



Stem scandent, 20-30 ft., sheaths about 1 in. diam. Leaflets 15-16 by f-1 in., 

 tip capillary bristly, rachis as thick as the thumb, subbiconvex; petiole about 2 ft., 

 trigonous; lower spines 1 in. and upwards. Spathes coriaceous, lower 8-10 in., 

 lanceolate, open, tip flat broad ; upper open much longer than their inflorescences. 

 Spadix 3-4 ft., very slender ; peduncle stoutly armed, branches erect, unarmed 

 spikes 1^-3 in., flexuous, flowers unilateral. Calyx rather large, teeth acute, corolla 

 ventricose. Fruit % in. long, pedicelled by the calyx and spathellules, cinnamon 

 brown, scales deeply channelled. Seed with a hard resinous coat, chalaza grooved ; 

 albumen ruminate; embryo basal. The young spadix resembles D. propinquus, the 

 mature is more like D. Hystrix. Descript. chiefly from Griffith. 



ft Mouth of leaf -sheath armed with long flat erect spines ; fruit not or 

 sparingly resiniferous. 



19. D. Hystrix, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 205, 328, t. 176, f. 4, 

 3-4- ; leaflets very many equidistant narrow setaceously acuminate, margins 

 and 3 costse setulose on both surfaces, rachis clawed, petiole armed with 

 scattered long straight and short spines, sheath swollen armed with very 

 long (1 foot long) flat erect and shorter spines, lower spathe small elliptic 

 thickly armed upwards with strong long spines, fruiting spadix with 

 spreading branches and spikes, fruit ellipsoid long-pedicelled. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 91; Walp. Ann. iii. 477, v. 828. D. hirsutus, Blume Rumph. iii. 

 21 (excl. descr. fruit), t. 135, f. A, B, C (excl. D, E oblongus] ; Miq. I. c. 



