D. melanochaetes.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 47 
OssERvATIONS.—I have seen of this two entire leaves, wanting however their 
sheath, an entire spadix with nearly mature fruit and two smaller aud younger 
fruiting spadices. It is doubtless very closely related to D. Jenkinsianus, of which 
perhaps it is a geographical form, differing only in the narrower and more elongated 
outer spathe, in the smooth peduneular part of the spadix, and in the fruit which 
does not appear so regularly deeply longitudinally furrowed, the furrow on the 
dorsum of every fruit-scale being deeper and broader on its posticous part than at. 
its apex The general dimensions of the plant seem smaller than those of D. Jenkin- 
sianus, but the fruit is larger. The naked canes sent to me as those of the leafy and 
fruiting specimens described above are 12-15 mm. in diameter with the internodes 
15-20 em. long; they have a dall surface and a rather distinct longitudinal costa. 
Prat 2.—Daemonorops Manii Bece. The type specimen in Herb. Beccari. 
7.. DAEMONOROPS MELANOCHAETES Bl. in Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. vii, 2, 
p. 1333, obs. 1 (excl syn.); Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 198 (lst edit.), 
205 (2nd edit.) and 326, pl. 117 and pl. 125, 1; Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii 
202; Bl. Rumphia, iii, 3, pl. 134 and 137; Hassk. Tijdschr. Nat, Gesch. 
ii 175; Miq. in Pl. Jungh. i, 161, and Fl. Ind. Bat. ii, 86; Walp. 
Ann. iii, 475, and v, 827; Teysm. Cat. Hort, Bog. 74; Becc. in Rec. 
Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 219. 
Calamus | melanochaetes Miq. De Palm. Are. Ind. 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch. 
Palm. 237; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 86, and Palms Brit, 
India, 92 (excl. Palmiuncus niger Rumph. and Calamus niger Willd.). 
Description.—High scandent, of moderate size or rather robust. Leaf-sheaths 
armed with flat, schistaceous or blackish, long or short, more or less seriate spines 
Leaves large; petiole robust, 15-40 cm. long, 15-25 mm, broad, more or less 
prickly above, especially near the margins; leaflets very numerous, equidistant, linear- 
ensiform, the intermediate ones 30-60 cm. long, 15-28 mm. broad, their mid-costa 
and one slender costula on each side of it bristly on the upper surface; on the 
under surface naked, or more or less bristly on the  mid-costa alone; margins 
closely ciliate, spinulous. Spadices (8 and ¢?) rather broadly- or ventricose-fusiform, 
erect, subsessile or with a very short prickly peduncular part; outer spathes deeply 
concave-cymbiform, covered with many, solitary, long, very slender and sub-bristly 
spadiceous spines, which often have a paler tip; the beak as long, longer, or even 
shorter than the body, unarmed except at the base; inner spathes also deeply 
concave, thinly papyraceous, the second alone more or less spinous. Male spadiz 
when in flower thyrsoid-cupressiform, with 5-8 partial inflorescences. Male flowers 
oblong and with nearly parallel sides, 5 mm. long, obtuse. Female spadiz with the 
internodes of the main axis short, not swollen at the junctures. Jnvolucrophorum with 
an oblique limb; involucre shallowly cupular, entire; areola of the neuter flower very 
distinct and tumescent. Fruiting perianth entirely explanate. Fruit spherical, shortly 
or very shortly umbonate-mucronate, 18-20 mm. in diameter, scales broadly and rather 
deeply channelled, brownish with darker intra-marginal line and an obtuse tip. Seed 
irregularly globular, gibbous on the raphal side, broader than long. 
