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some fine specimens with female spadices, sent to me by Dr. Treub, from -plants 
cultivated in the Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg. Some of the spadices of these 
specimens have the spathes wholly closed and entirely enveloping the flowering azis; 
nevertheless they curiously show amongst the flowers where the ovary does rot 
project above the apex of the corolla, many other flowers with the ovary consider- 
ably increased in bulk, twice as long as the perianth, ovoid, 6-7 mm. in 
diameter, conically beaked and with the stigmas at first connivent. As soon, however, 
as the spathes split, the stigmas, which are linear-subulate and lamellose inside, 
spread. Apparently only those last ovaries enlarged inside the unopened spathes 
come, to perfection. 
D. fissus is easily distinguishable from the allied forms by its distinctly 
conically-beaked fruit with uniformly cinnamou-brown scales; and by the in- 
volucre of the female flower, which is almost entirely immersed in the invo- 
lucrophorum, flat on the side of the neuter flower, the areola of which is rather 
sharply bordered, as in many Calami, and having the scar of the insertion 
of the flower quite at its base, embraced by the involucrophorum, and only there 
slightly callous. The neuter flowers are also more elongate than in the other 
species of the group of D. melanochactes. \ 
Puare 15.—-Daemonorops fissus Blume. From a plant cultivated at Buitenzorg 
(Herb. Beccari), 
DAEMONOROPS FISSUS var. CINNAMOMEUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 219. 
DescRIPTIoN.—It differs from the type only in having the leaflets shorter, linear- 
lanceolate, 30 cm. long at most and 15 mm. in width, and in the outer spathe 
being almost without spines in its basal portion on the back, 
- Flanrrat.—Cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg as introduced from 
Borneo. 
Putare 16.—Daemonorops fissus var. cinnamomeus. From a plant cultivated at 
Buitenzorg (Herb. Beccari). 
15. DAEMONOROPS BINNaNDIJKII Bece. sp. n. 
D. marginatus (not of Mart.) Teijsm. et Binn. Cat. Hort. Bog. 381 (name 
only). 
DzscRrPTION.—Scandent, of modérate size. Sheathed stem 2-3 cm. in diameter, Leaf- 
sheaths densely armed with thick, laminar, rather broad, very unequal, long and 
short, blackish, usually obliquely inserted, scattered, elongate-triangular spines; near 
the mouth the spines are very numerous, erect and as much as 4-5 em. long. Leaves 
about 1°5-1°8m. long in the pinniferous part; petiole 20-30 cm. long, about 1 
em. broad, flattish on the upper surface, rounded on the lower, sprinkled on both 
surfaces, but especially on the upper, with small tuberculiform prickles and more or 
less armed on the margins with not very robust, straight spines; the rachis on 
its upper surface is sparsely spinulous in the lower portion, but higher up the 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp, Catcurra Vor. XII. 
