D. Lewisianus-) BECCARL THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 87 
of which Griffith speaks at pp. 97-98. Plate XXIV.C represents two spadices in 
fruit, with the outer spathe armed with very few spines occurring chiefly on the two 
acute carinae, while on the outer spathe of the spadix in plate XXIV-B these spines 
are very numerous and are scattered irregularly over its entire surface. Now as 
Griffiths in the diagnosis of C. monticolus describes the “spatha extima secus carinas 
duas spinis gracilibus deflexis armata" and as this character is more clearly repre- 
sented in plate XXIV-C than in the other, I feel almost certain that this last 
plate represents the spadices of the type D. monticolus from Mount Ophir; unfor- 
tunately the type-specimens of this in Kew and Calcutta Herbaria want the outermost 
spathe. 
The var. pinangianus of D. monticolus differs from the type in the outer spathe 
being not very acutely two-keeled, and more densely covered throughout with spines; 
in the fewer, broader, less numerous, and less regularly set leaflets, and apparently 
in the smaller and rounder fruit. This, however, I have seen only in Griffith’s 
plates, 
PLATE 29.—Daemonorops monticolus var. pinangianus Beee. ^ Portion of the stem 
with a very smali spadix and an entire leaf in the upper part of the plate, from 
Ridley’s No. 7896 in the Calcutta Herbarium; the other two spadices ( d) from 
Ridleys No. 7897 in the same Herbarium. 
26. Darmonorors Lewistanus Mart, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 327, pl. 175 ; ZW 
f. 1—7 and pl. Z xvii; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 89; Walp. Ann. 
di, 4/76, and .v, 827; Hook. f, Fl Brit. dnd. vi, 465; Bece. 
in Rec. Bot, Surv. Ind. ii, 221; Ridley, Mat. Fl Mal. 
Penins. ii, 176 (partim?) 
Calamus Lewisianıs Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 87, and Palms 
Brit. India, 94, pl. CCXII, A., B.; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 236 
(excl-syn,) ; Miq. De Palmis Arc. Ind. 28. 
Description. —Erect or sub-scandent (?). Sheathed stem about 3 cm. in diameter 
Leaf-sheaths (of the upper part of the plant) rusty-furfuraceous, very slightly gibbous 
or transversely plicate under the petiole, armed with flat, rather broadly laminar, 
elastic subulate, 2-4 cm. long, brown spines, whicb are solitary, scattered and not 
very crowded or even confluent by their bases and more or less obliquely and not 
very closely seriate, with shorter spines between the series of the larger ones; the 
mouth almost naked. Ocrea very short, truncate. Radical leaves apparently long- 
petioled and considerably larger than the upper ones; leaflets numerous, rather closely 
set, equidistant, broadly linear, long-acuminate, the largest seen by me 15-20 mm. 
broad, subconcolorous on both surfaces, with the mid-costa acute, and one very 
slender nerve on each side of it sparsely bristly above; underneath the  mid-costa 
alone finely and closely bristly from the base to the apex, but apparently the 
bristles more or less deciduous with age; margins rather closely and spreadingly 
bristly-ciliate, especially towards the apex. Upper leaves ‘not seen by me; apparently 
with the petiole broadened at the base, and there armed with shortish, deflexed 
