D. ursinus.) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 97 
(up to 5-6 cm.) rigid, brittle, hair-like, blackish or spadiceous, closely seriate spiculae, 
and clothed with a dense, dark brown, woolly scurf, which clothes also the petiole 
and the leaf-rachis; the mouth is furnished with two erect, rigid, stipuliform, very 
slender appendages, which attain the extraordinary length of 20-25 cm., are about as 
thick as a pack-thread and are covered like the sheaths with the same kind of spreading, 
confluent and close verticelled, criniform hairs. Leaves 0-9-1 m. long (including the 
petiole), subcirriferous, bearing small, gradually diminutive leaflets to the very apex ; 
petiole about 20 cm. long, subterete or slightly flattened-biconvex, comparatively robust 
(6-7 mm. thick); rachis bifaced with a salient angle above, towards the base convex on 
the lower surface which is scurfy-furfuraceous throughout and like the petiole covered 
with the same kind of blackish criniform hairs that cover the sheaths, and armed with 
light coloured black-tipped claws, scattered and solitary on the petiole and digitate— 
often irregularly —on the rachis, Leaflets very numerous, very regularly and closely set, 
inserted at a very wide angle or subhorizontal, thinly papyraceous or submembran- 
aceous, green, slightly paler on the lower surface, narrow, linear, slightly narrowing 
towards the base and from about the middle gradually acuminate to a subulate and 
bristly tip, with 3 bristly slender costae on the upper surface, the mid-costa on the 
lower surface and the margins uniformly covered with light, delicate, spreading hairs ; 
transverse veinlets very sharp on the upper surface; the largest leaflets, the 
intermediate ones, about 15 cm, long, 6-10 mm. broad, the upper ones gradually 
smaller, and those near the apex very narrow and quite rudimentary. Male spadiz 
erect, very sull, axillary in appearance, narrowly fusiform, 12-15 cm. long; outer 
spathe gradually narrowing into a slender and not very long beak, furfuraceous and 
covered like the other parts of the plant with  criniform hairs; the flowering 
panicle small, glabrous in every part, with few, very small, partial inflorescences, each 
bearing very few and very few-flowered spikelets; spathels bracteiform, amplectent, 
very broad, acute; involuore subcymbiform and apparently formed by two very broad, 
ovate, acute bracts, connate by their bases, Male flowers small, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
irregularly and obsoletely trigonous, 3 mm. long; the calyx finely striately veined, 
broadly and not deeply 3-toothed; the corolla about twice as long as the calyx. 
Hasitat.—Borneo. I discovered this very curious and distinct species near the 
summit of Mount Mattang in Sarawak in December 1866; (P. B. No. 2925), 
OnsERVATIONS.— This species stands quite alone in the group of Cymbospatha, on 
account of the two curious stipuliform appendages that arise erect from the mouth 
of the leaf-sheaths, one on each side, at the base of the petiole; it is also easily 
distinguishable from all other species known to me, by the long, rigid, criniform 
hairs covering the sheath, petiole, and spadix, which are also clothed with a dense 
brown woolly scurf; by the subcirriferous leaves with small narrow leaflets 
carrying delicate light hairs on their margins, on the mid-costa beneath and on 3 
eostae above; and by the flowering axis of the male spadix being quite glabrous 
in every part, with few branchlets and very few-flowered spikelets, and finally by 
the small broadly ovate-trigonous flowers. 
Prate 35.—Daemonorops ursinus Bece. The type specimen P. B, No, 2925 in 
Herb. Beccari. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
