59 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D. Schmidtianus.. 
small, very slender, subspiny bodies entirely hidden by the scurf,in the young 
stage of the spadix but visible when this is removed; this structure is apparent, 
though in a less degree, also in Javanese specimens of D. melanochaetes. The nectariform. 
callus at each flexure of the axis of the male spikelets is very distinct. 
A very thorough examination of the portions of the type of D. palembanicus: 
has allowed me to recognize this in some specimens with male spadices, introduced 
from Sumatra into the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg and cultivated there under 
the name of D. Lewisianus Griff,  '* Rotang  Djernang" (vide Cat. Hort. Bog. 
p. 74. From these specimens I have derived my description of the spathes, while 
that of the fruit is taken from some detached fruits received under the same 
name of D. Lewisianus from the Leiden Herbarium ; but it is impossible to be absolutely 
certain that these fruits are really those of the species to which the male spadices- 
described above belong. I consider also as belonging to D. palembanicus another 
Daemonorops from Paja Kombo in Sumatra—cultivated at Buitenzorg under the 
number 5154—which has very robust male spadices and the outer spathe armed with. 
distinctly laminar spines, some of these being 4 mm. broad at their base. The 
leaflets often have bristles on 5 nerves above. 
Another specimen also brought into the same garden from Sumatra by Teysmann 
and cultivated as No. 4248 differs slightly from the preceding in the outer spathe- 
having a shorter beak. 
Pirate 6.—Daemonorops palembanicus Bi. 
` Male spadix and detached outermost spathe; portion of a _ leaf-sheath and 
petiole ; intermediate portion of a leaf. From a plant cultivated at. 
Buitenzorg, derived from Sumatra (Herb, Beccari). 
 DAEMONOROPS PALEMBANICUS var. BANGKANUS Bece. 
Descrrption.—Sheathed stem about 3 cm, in diameter, armed as in type. Leaves. 
1:5 n. long in the pinniferous part; leaflets 25 em. long, 15 mm. broad, -with short 
bristles on 3 nerves on the upper surface and rather regularly and closely ciliolate 
on the mid-costa on the lower. Outer spathe armed with laminar, confluent and 
closely, interruptedly seriate spines, which, compared with those of the type, are 
short, broad and rigid, 2-4 mm. broad at the base, 1-3 cm. long; this kind of 
spine covers also a good portion of the beak, where they are more or less seriate- 
or half-wborled, horizontal or somewhat deflexed, 
Hasrrat.—Introduced from Bangka into the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg. It 
is labelled Vis ces sp. Bangka. Rakanan." 
OBSERVATIONS.—It differs from the type in the short laminar spines which cover- 
the outer spathe. 
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* 
6. Darmonorors ScHurDTIANUS Becc. in J. Schm. Fl. Koh Chang, ix, 330. 
Descriprion.— Apparently scandent and rather slender.  Leaf-sheaths 
Leaves of the upper part of the stem cirriferous; petiole 
» «3 rachis with a 
