D. monticolus.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 85 
5-7 distichous flowers in all; the largest spikelets, the intermediate ones, occasionally 
with i-2 secondary few-flowered spikelets on each side; involucrophorum sub-obeonical, 
short (1-2 mm.) and thick; with an asymmetric subspathaceous and unilaterally acute 
limb, its apex often exceeding the involucre, not or very slightly callous at its axilla; 
involuere very shallowly cupular, truncate, entire, indistinctly veined externally; areola 
of the neuter flower depressed, distinctly swollen on its upper side. Fruiting perianth 
explanate. Fruit apparently rather small, globose and conically beaked (when not 
quite mature); scales in 18 longitudinal series, channelled along the middle, rather 
dull, cinnamon-brown, their apex very obtuse and not spotted; the margins finely 
erosely toothed, and with a narrow and uniform chestnut-brown intramarginal line, 
Hapitat.—The Malayan Peninsula, Somewhat gregarious in thick forests on 
Gunong Miring, an off-set of Mount Ophir, at an altitude of 400 or 600 metres. 
(Grifith. 
OBSERVATIONS.—Imperfectly known. My description is chiefly derived from 
Griffith, completed with the notes taken on the very fragmentary, authentic 
specimens in the Herbaria of Kew and Calcutta. In both Herbaria the spadices 
want the outermost spathe, and this makes precise comparison with allied 
species difficult. 
Its chief characters are:—Stem erect; only upper leaves cirriferous; leaf-sheaths 
armed with scattered or subseriate, long, laminar, non-confluent spines; leaflets rather 
numerous, equidistant, linear, narrow, rather numerous and approximate, subulate 
and bristly at the apex; spadices slightly supra-axillary, approximate, but not 
crowded at the apex of the plant, supported on a short peduncle, the sheaths 
not being excessively short; outer spathes cymbiform-fusiform, long-beaked, armed 
between and along the prominent keels with scattered, weak, long spines; the 
beak about as long as the body and sparsely armed on its basal part with very 
long, deflexed, subulate, sub-bristly spines ; partial inflorescences short, and with but — 
few short, few-flowered spikelets; involucrophorum thick and short; areola of the 
neuter flower distinctly callous, depressed. Fruit small, globular, conically beaked. 
It would appear to me that the specimen given by Ridley to the Calcutta 
Herbarium under No. 7100, collected by Ridley himself in December 1898 on Bukit 
Juru, Prov. Wellesley is to be referred to D. monticolus, This same number 
Ridley (Mat. l. c.) considers to belong to D. Lewisianus Mart. 
DAEMONOROPS MONTICOLUS var. PINANGIANUS Bece. 
D. montieolus var. B. Bece. in Rec, Bot. Surv. Ind, ij 221. 
D. monticolus Griff. Ridley, Mat. Fl. Malay. Pen. ii, 175. 
Stree monticolus Griff. Palms Br. Ind. 97, only as to the plant of Pinang and 
pl. COXIV, B). 
Desorrtion.—Erect. Sheathed stem 1-2 cm. in diameter, Leaf-sheaths more or less 
(sometimes indistinctly)  costulate longitudinally, covered with a removable, dark- 
brown scurf ; those of the upper part of the plant slightly gibbous above and | 
armed not very densely with long, deflexed, narrowly laminar, subulate, solitary or 
subseriate, but individually distinct spines. Ocrea very short, obliquely truncate. 
Leaves of the upper and fertile part of the plant rather small, with not many 
