D. fissus.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. — 65 
scar which is very slightly or not at all callous. Female flowers broadly ovate, 
6 mm. long; the calyx cupular, truncate, very obsoletely 3-denticulate, strongly 
striately veined; segments of the corolla elongate-triangular, not very acute, twice 
as long as the calyx, Neuter flowers erect from inside the involucrophorum, 4-5 
mm. long, narrowly oblong, obsoletely 3-gonous or flattened, often slightly curved. 
Fruiting perianth explanate, with a very short but distinct callous base. Fruit 
spherical, shortly mucronate, 15-16 mm. in diam.; scales in 18 longitudinal 
series, dirty  light-yellowish, not polished except on the margin, which is 
lighter than the body and finely, erosely toothed, rather deeply and narrowly 
channelled along the middle, the tip rounded and in the scales of the upper part 
of the fruit slightly produced and often marked with a dark spot. Seed globuler. 
Hasitat.—At Sungei Bulu in the lowland near Pandang on the west coast of 
Sumatra Beccari P. S. No. 905. 
OnskRVATIONS.—-Easily distinguishable from the allied species by its leaves almost 
without a petiole, with numerous, very narrow, not very closely set leaflets; 
by the outer spathe armed witl. broad, laciniate, laminar spines; by the fruit with 
dull scales, and by the not callous areola of the neuter flowers which are erect 
and subtended by the involucrophorum. 
In this species aleo, I have observed that some of the ovaries were already 
considerably developed, as if they had already been fertilized, even in spadices which 
apparently were unopened and with the spathes still completely sheathing the flowers. 
Pirate 14.—Daemonorops stenophyllus Zecc.—From the type specimen of Plant 
Sum. No. 905 in Herb. Beccari. 
14. Darmonororps rissus Bl. Rumphia, iii. 17, pl. 144, D—G (excl. f. A—C); 
Mart. .Hist. Net. Palm, iu, 9397;.Miqg. FL Ind; Bet ng | 85; 
Walp. Ann. ii, 476, and jv, 827; Teijsm. et Binn. Cat. Hort. 
Bogcr. 74; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 219. 
Calamus fissus Miq. Anal. Bot, Ind., 6, and De Palm. Arc. Ind. 28; 
H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm., 236. 
DescripTioy,--Scandent, of moderate or rather large size, Sheathed siem 3-4 cm. 
in diameter. Leaf-sheaths more or less coated with an almost black or very darkly 
tobacco-coloured, crustaceous indumentum and densely armed with laminar, unequal 
(1-5 em. long.) usually broad-based, rigid, black, scattered, often obliquely inserted 
spines. Leaves large, about 2 m. long in the pinniferous part and terminating in a 
long and robust cirrus armed with half-whorls of robust black-tipped claws; petiole 
robust, moderately long, 18-22 mm. broad, flat on the upper surface, rounded on the lower, 
more or less armed on both surfaces, as on the first portion of the rachis, with very 
short, unequal, straight, flat, triangular, ascendent prickles and with a few strong divergent 
spines on the margins; the rachis spinulous on the acute salient angle on the upper 
surface and armed on the lower with solitary or geminate claws, that become 3-nate 
and finally 5-nate upwards, Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 15-25 mm, apart, linear- 
Awx, Roy. Bor. Garp. CarcurrA Vor. XII. 
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