D. Scortechinii. | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 81 
wide) flattened, prickly at the margins and cn the back; the entire length 
of the spadix including the pedicellar part is 20 cm.; the main axis is slender, 
bearing very few partial inflorescences ‘three in one specimen), each about 8 cm. 
long with few (8-5) loose, very few flowered spikelets;  spathels bracteiform, 
amplectent, produced at one side into a triangular, acute or acuminate tip; 
involucrophorum short and. thick, sub-obconical, expanded at its apex into an 
asymmetric subeupular and unilaterally acute limb, callous at its axilla; involucre 
cupular, truncate, entire, almost entirely immersed in the involucrophorum; areola of 
the neuter flower depressed, very conspicuously swollen. Fruiting perianih with the 
calyx broadly obconical or subpedicelliform. Fruit large, ovoid-elliptical, very 
suddenly crowned by a short and slender mucro, 3 em. long, by 2 cm. across; 
scales not very shining, in 18 longitudical series, uniformly tawny-brown, with 
a sharp darker marginal line, deeply channelled along the centre and with a 
triangular non-produced tip. Seed globular, slightly oblong or a little longer than 
broad (18 mm. high, 15 mm. thick), slightly gibbous on one side, not very deeply 
ruminate; embryo basal, slightly to one side. 
Hasitat.—The Malayan Peninsula. Collected by Father Kceortechini in the district 
of Perak (Herb. Beccari). 
OnsERVATIONS.— Scortechini's specimens consist of only a non-cirriferous leaf {probably 
a radical one) wanting the petiolar part, and of one spadix with mature fruit. The 
nodding or recurved spadix supported by a long and slender pedicellar part, and the 
large ellipsoid fruit, would distinguish this at once from D. Sepal, if these characters 
are not individual peculiarities. Indeed, in typical specimens of D. Sepal the 
spadix is sometimes almost sessile, while in other instances it is 2-3 cm. in length ; 
the fruit of D. Sepal is smaller and the scales are in 18 longitudinal series (in D. 
übellis the series are 15). 
Puare 26.—Daemonorops imbellis Becc. The type-specimen in Herb. Beccari. 
23.  DarMwoNoRoPs ScoRrECHINIH Becc. n. sp. 
D. Sepal var. sphaerocarpus Becc. in Rec, Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 220. 
DESCRIPTIONS. — Siem . . .  Leaf-shealhs . .  . Leaves terminating in a 
slender, rather long cirrus; petiole . . . . 3; rachis (in the terminal part 
oi one specimen) with a very acute smooth salient angle above, armed under- 
neath with binate and then 3-nate, very fine and sharp claws, which become 
5-nate and half-whorled on the cirrus. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 15-18 mm. 
apart, thinly papyraceous, green on both surfaces, linear or very narrowly linear- 
lancevlate, the largest—amongst those seen by me—22 cm. in length, 11 mm, in 
width, being broadest about the middle and thence slightly narrowing towards the 
pase and gradually acuminate to a subulate apex; the mid-costa and one slender 
nerve on each side of it carrying delicate bristles; beneath the mid-costa only 
sparingly bristly spinulous; transverse veinlets sharp; margins finely and appressedly 
spinulous. Maie spadiz . .. Female  spadiz fusiform and shortly beaked, before 
flowering its entire length is 20 cm. and it supported on a slender, prickly, 15-20 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcurra Vor. XII. 
