D. melanochaetes.) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF PAEMONOROPS. 49 
DAEMONOROPS MELANOCHAETES var. MACROCYMBUS Bece, in Rec. Bot, Surv. Ind. 
it, 219. 
Description.—Robust. Sheathed stem 5 cm. in diameter. “Leaves 3°3-4 m. long 
(not including the cirrus); leaflets 50-60 cm. long, 2:5-3 cm. broad. Male spadiz 
with the outer spathe sometimes 80—90 cm. long and 10-12 cm. broad in the 
ventricose part, very densely covered with innumerable long and very slender crini- 
form spines. The beak comparatively short, about one-third the length of the body. 
Hasrrat,—I know this form, which probably is indigenous to Java, only from 
male specimens cultivated in the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg. 
Prats 4.—Daemonorops melanochaetes Bl. The two small spadices on the right side 
of the plate are of the var. microcarpus ; the other two figures are of the variety 
macrocymbus; that in the centre represents the upper portion of a male spadix 
during the anthesis; the other the back of the outer spathe. From plants culti- 
vated at Buitenzorg, in Herb. Beceari. 
DAEMONOROPS MELANOCHAETES var. PADANGENSIS Deco. 
DrscmrPrION.— Rather robust, ^ .Leaf-sheaths armed with unequal spines, many of 
them with a large base and broadly laminar, interruptedly seriate and often laciniate, 
Leaves 8 m. long in the pinniferous part; rachis strongly spinulous on its upper 
angle; leaflet 30-45 cm. long, 15-20 mm. broad (the intermediate ones), with long- 
light-brown bristles on 3 nerves above; underneath the mid-costa very closely and 
finely bristly; margins finely and closely ciliate with rather spreading sub-spinescent 
hairs. Female spadiz before flowering clothed, not very densely, with very narrowly 
laminar or even sub-setiform seriate spines; the beak about half as long as 
the body. Involucre of the female flowers very shallow; areola of the neuter 
flower with a conspicuous semi-annular swollen callus on its upper side. Fruit 
spherical, very shortly conically beaked, scales with a distinct dark-coloured marginal 
line; not very deeply channelled along the middle. 
HanrrAT.—1 found this variety in August 1878 at Ayer Manchor (360 metres 
above the level of the sea) in the Province of Padang in West Sumatra. 
OBsERVATIONS.—Though evidently specifically belonging to D.  melanochaetes, this 
is readily distinguished from other varieties by the leaflets having the mid-costa 
finely and closely bairy-spinulous beneath and the margins spreadingly ciliate. 
DAEMONOROPS MELANOCHAETES var. MACRUCARPUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind ii, 219. 
Descrip110on.—Leaf-sheaths and spadices coated with a umform, furfuraceous, - 
almost black indumentum. Leaflets distinctly bristly on 3 nerves above and on the 
mid-costa beneath, Outer spathe rather densely armed with bristly spines, sometimes 
slightly broader than in type. Fruit comparatively large, 25 em. in length (not 
including the beak) and 1-2 mm. less in breadth; scales very deeply channelled 
along the centre. , 
Hasrrat.—Collected by Forbes in 1881 at 1,500 metres elevation on Mount Dempo, 
province of Bencoolen in Sumatra (No. 2326 in Herb, Calcutta). 
Ann. Roy. Bor, Garp. ; Catourra, Vor. XII. 
