D. Pierreanus.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS, 55 
Hasitat.—Lower Cochin-China (Pierre), Native name “Le Xom.” 
OssERvaTIoNs.—Under the same No. 4859 M. L. Pierre has given to me two 
sheets of the Daemonorops which was described by me as D. Pierreanus (l. c). 
On examining again these specimens, it seems to me possible that they may be 
parts of two different species. The label on one sheet is as follows:—'*No. 4859. 
Truncus erectus! 15—20 m. diam. (si) Folia ultra 2 metr. longa. Fructus 
edulis Kmer: Le Xom. Habitat in montibus Kuang  Repen, Prov. Ipong. 
Cambodgia; alt. 600 metr. Coll, L. P.-5-1870," The other sheet has on the label:— 
* Hab. ad Toikuyen in prov. Bien hoa, austro Cochin-Chinae. Coll. L. P.-1.1873."— 
Evidently No. 4859 of Pierres Herbarium is composed of specimens of two different 
‘collectings. Therefore to avoid confusion I have based the species only on 
the fruiting spadix which is on the same sheet with a portion of a non-cirriferous 
leaf (hereafter described) and which bears the  first-mentioned label with the. 
note “truncus erectus.” This spadix however seems to me to belong to a scandent 
species, while the leaf may equally well be that of an erect or of a climbing plant. 
Therefore it is possible that under No. 4859 of Pierre may be mingled portions of 
two species of which one is scandent and the other erect; vr perhaps these portions 
belong to one species, but were collected at different stages of development. 
A fruiting spadix preserved in the Paris Herbarium and labelled: ‘ No. 929, Cochin 
Chine—M. le. Dr. Thorel, 1862—1866,” apparently belongs to D. Pierreanus, or to a 
closely allied species, and differs from the type specimens in the fruit, which has the 
scales almost dull-looking and more strongly and narrowly suleate, and in the spadix, 
which is more elongate with the basilar internodes very long and the others not 
swollen at the base. Another specimen from Dr. Thorel bearing also the No. 929, has 
an unopened spadix, which is almost sessile, elongate-fusiform, 50 cm. long, gradually 
narrowing into a rather long beak that measures about one-third of the whole 
length of the spadix; the outer spathe is armed with rather broadly laminar, subulate, 
scattered spines. The leaf, which is united to the fruit-spadix described above, is 
not cirriferous and is certainly a radical one; the petiole is elongate, subterete, armed 
lower down with laminar, acicular, confluent, seriate and comb-like spines, which become 
solitary and scattered upwards; rachis in the intermediate portion convex and smooth 
on the lower surface, and with a salient acute and smooth angle and two flat side 
faces on the upper; leaflets numerous, equidistant, about 3 cm. apart, linear-ensiform, 
slightly narrowing towards the base, where suddenly backwardly plicate, gradually 
and  subulately acuminate to a bristly tip, sub-concolorous on both surfaces; the 
upper surface almost glossy with the mid-costa sparsely bristly towards the apex ; 
the secondary nerves slender, one on each side of the mid-costa furnished with 
long spadiceous bristles about 1 em. long; underneath the superficial mid-costa 
bears only a few bristles near its apex; the margins deciduously  bristly-ciliate ; 
transverse veinlets very slender, not very approximate. 
From what I can judge by the fragmentary specimens at my disposal, D. 
Pierreanus is related more to D, Jenkinsianus than to any other species, and appears 
to be very variable or if it be not, then two or three closely related species 
are growing in Cochin-Cbina. 
PrArE 8.Daemonorops  Pierreanus Bece. Portion of the leaf and spadix with 4 
fruits on the left hand side of the plate (from Pierre’s No. 4859 in Herb. Bec cari ) 
