D. Margaritae.) BECCABL THE SPECIES.OF DAEMONOROPS. : 57 
OssrRvaTIONS.— D. Margaritae perhaps resembles D. Jenkinsianus more than any 
other, differing from it chiefly in its short-beaked  spadix, and in its outer 
spathe, which has flat, often laciniate spines, but especially in the involucrophorum, 
which is quite sessile, reduced to a simple concave bract, wanting the usual more 
or less elongated pedicellar part. This character distinguishes D, Margaritae from 
all other species allied to D. melanochaetes and D, Jenkinsianus. 
Pirate 9.—Daemonorops Margaritae Hance. Lower portion of a leaf, upper 
surface, spadix with young fruits; (from Hance’s No. 18407 in the Paris Herbarium), 
Female spadix in flower and two full grown fruits; jas Hance’s No. 18407 in 
St. Petersburg Herbarium). 
DAEMONOROPS PEREAT var. PALAWANIEUS Becc. 
Description.—Scandent, of moderate size.  .Leaf-sheaths . . . . Leaves of the upper 
part of the plant elongate, terminating in a long and robust cirrus which is powerfully 
armed with half to three-quarter whorls of very sharp claws; petiolar part . . . .; rachis 
spinulous on the salient angle of the upper surface; leaflets numerous, those of 
the intermediate and upper part of the leaf equidistant, not. very closely set, 2:5-3 
cm. apart, very narrowly linear-ensiform, acuminate to a filiform tip; on the lower 
surface the mid-costa and one slender nerve on each sido of it bristly, on the upper 
surface usually smooth; margins very closely and finely ciliate. Male INE LL IV 
Female spadiz before flowering elongate-fusiform, about 30 cm. long, erect even when 
in fruit, borne by a flattened pedicellar part, which, apparently, is 4 cm. long, 6—7 
mm. Wo and rather densely prickly; outer spathe narrowly cymbiform, shortly 
beaked, armed with small, short, (5-15 mm, long), unequal, horizontal or deflexed, 
interruptedly seriate, narrowly laminar spines; the second spathe has a few sa 
feeble spines; the third is still less spinous. The panicle in fruit is 12-15 em. long 
-< with few branches; the internodes are slightly swollen in their basal part. Spikelets 
short, with only 2-4 flowers on each sides; involucrophorum sub-sessile or very 
shortly pedicelliform ; involucre cupular, slightly exceeding the involucrophorum, abso- 
lutely bidentate on the site of the neuter flower, of which the areola is rather 
distinctly defined by acute margins, with the basal scar slightly tumescent. Fruiting 
perianth explanate. Fruit spherical, abruptly mucronate, about 20 mm. in diameter ; 
scales in 21 longitudinal series with a narrow dark margin, neatly channelled along 
the centre. Seed irregularly globular, 
Hapitat.—Philippines. In the island of Palawan, collected by F. W. Foauworthy, 
in May 1906. (Herb. Bureau of Science, Manila, No. 899). 
Oxsservations.—I have seen only incomplete specimens of this Daemonorops, which 
is the only one of the group of Cymbosvatha hitherto found growing in the 
Philippine Islands. It apparently differs from typical D, Margaritae in the spikelets 
of the female spadix having fewer flowers, in the sharply defined areola of — 
the neuter flower, and in the outer spathe, being armed with small slender seriate 
spines. : 
Prate 10.—Daemonorops Margaritae var. palawanicus Beee, 
Tbe type specimen 
No. 899 in the Herbarium at Manila., 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. CarcvurrA Vor. XII. 
