Dcemonorops.'] CLXIII. PALMERS. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 469 



Suppl. 593. Calamus Hystrix, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 71 ; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 80, t. 204, A, B, ; Miq. Palm Archip. 2nd. 28. 



MALACCA, Griffith; at Ager Punnus, Maingay. PEEAZ, Scortechini, King's 

 Collector (951). DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Stem scaudent, with the very stout sheaths 1^ in. diam. Leaves7-W ft. ; rachis 

 flagellif erous ; leaflets 10-18 by -f in., tips very slender, setulose costsR sometimes 

 5 ; petiole 1-2 ft. ; sheath woody, scurfy, obliquely crossed with half-whorls of 

 close set flat spines, of which the lower series are ^-^ in. long lanceolate very 

 thin and appressed to the surface, the upper or oral enormously long, strict. 

 Lowest spathe 4-5 in., almost woody, stoutly armed, not beaked; upper narrower, 

 .more or less armed. Spadix 2-3 ft., peduncle rather slender, armed ; spikes 2-3 in., 

 scurfy, ascending, flexuous ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx cupular, teeth obtuse villous- 

 tipped; corolla twice as long, ovoid. Fruit about in. long by | in. diam., pale 

 brown, not shining, shortly mammillate; scales obtuse, channelled, margins of channels 

 rather elevated. Seed oblong, pitted, pits resinous ; albumen deeply ruminate ; 

 embryo basilar. The .'enormous spines of the leaf-sheaths are a remarkable 

 character. 



Var.'rainor, Becc. mss. ; stem 2-8 ft., with the sheaths $-f in. diam., leaves 1-4 

 ft., leaflets 5-10 in., fruit much smaller. Perak 300-1500 ft., King's Collector 

 (5097, 5142, 5486). 



20. D. HLunstleri, Becc. mss.; leaflets many equidistant linear 

 setulose on the 3 costae above and median beneath, margins setulose, 

 petiole robust scurfy margins armed with long stout spreading spines, 

 sheath with many oblique series of long stout flat spines alternating with 

 shorter setiform ones, mouth with a few very long ones, lower spathe 

 coriaceous softly scurfy keel spinous, peduncle of spadix long slender 

 armed with whorls of spines, fruit globose top conical not beaked. 



PERAK; Scortechini (652), King's Collector (10,204). 



Stem erect, 2-3 ft., sheaths 3 in. diam. Lea/lets 14-18 by |-f in., rachis armed 

 with 3-fid. claws. Peduncle of spadix 8-10 in. Fruit f in. diam., tawny, top suddenly 

 contracted into a low cone ; scales few, channelled, broad, margins not scarious and 

 hardly discoloured ; fruiting calyx small, explanate. Seed subglobose. I have seen 

 only a portion of a leaf and of a fruiting spadix. 



21. D. vagrants, Becc. mss. 



PEEAK ; alt. 4000-5000 ft., King's Collector (4129). 



Stem scandent, sheaths f in. diam. Leaflets 14 by f in., very narrow straight 

 and finely acuminate. Fruit as in Kuntsleri but smaller. I have seen only a portion 

 of a leaf and fruit without calyx. 



** Outer spathes at first tubular, then open, all deciduous or the outer 

 more persistent, hardly spinous, but densely clothed with rigid needle-like 

 spiculae. Sheath of leaf with a spinulose membranous collar or ring. 

 Spadix elongate before flowering, then paniculate. 



22. D. Sabut, Becc. mss. ; leaflets in fascicles of 9-10 in., the lower 

 part of the rachis and 4-6 on the upper elongate oblanceolate suddenly 

 narrowed to a setulose tip, margins and 3 costse setulose above the median 

 alone beneath, petiole very stout stoutly armed with short and long single 

 and compound spines, sheath with a toothed setulose and spinular mouth. 



PEEAK, Scortechini (653 b ). 



Intern&des 6-8 in., with a reversed membranous collar. Flagellum of rachis 

 very short. I have seen no specimen. J.D.U. . 



