D. robustus. BECCARL THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 101 
smooth and polished; secondary spathes very short, annular; the partial inflorescences 
erect, appressed to the axis, about 12-14 cm. long, with 5-6 spikelets on each side; 
the latter 6-10 cm. long, wih about 10 regularly distichous flowers on each side; 
spathels very small, scale-like, triangular, scarious, acute; involucrophorum pedicelliform, 
subtrigonous, 4-9 mm. long, produced at one side (in the apical part) into a small, 
triangular, acute, bracteiform point; involucre also pedicelliform and subtrigonous, 
slightly raised above the involucrophorum, disciform above; areola of the neuter flower 
punctiform, indistinct. Female flowers at the time of the anthesis 4 mm. long, exclusive 
of the stigmas which are exserted from the corolla and are about as long; the whole 
length of the female flowers is therefore about 8 mm.; calyx very short, cupular, 
polished (not striate), superficially 3-toothed; corolla ventricose-urceolate, strongly 
striately veined, coriaceous, about 3 times as long as the calyx, having 3 broadly 
triangular, acute teeth; the staminal urceolum lines the whole inner surface of the 
corolla, forms a fleshy ring at its mouth, and is crowned with 6 shortly subulate 
teeth; anthers erect, basifixed, sagittate, acute, exserted ; ovary globular; stigmata 
sessile, conspicuous, fleshy, sinuous, with numerous thick lamellae on the inner side, 
entirely exserted from the corolla during the anthesis. Fruit unknown. 
Hasitat.—Tomohon in N. Celebes in the Province of Minahassa (Sarasin No. 108% 
in Herb. Berol.). 
Oxservations.—A very robust, well-marked and handsome Species, apparently 
related to D. macropterus. The leaf-sheaths by their very dense covering of long 
black, rigid, hair-like spines, resemble the back of a wild boar. 
It is easily distinguishable by its very peculiar flowers, the male not having 
the anthers enclosed as usual within the corolla, but entirely protruding beyond it 
even before the flowering stage; in the same way the female flowers, at the time 
of the anthesis and apparently even before it, have the relatively very large 
stigmas quite exserted from the corolla. 
Prate 38,—Daemonorops Sarasinorum Ward. Portion of the leaf-sheath; an 
intermediate portion of a leaf; the terminal part of a male spadix with unexpanded 
flowers; tle lower portion of a female spadix in flower and with its lowest spathe 
in situ. From the authentic specimen in the Herbarium at Berlin. 
34. DAEMONOROPS ROBUBTUS Warb.; name only in Herb, Berol. 
Description.—Scandent and apparently large. Leaves very large. Petiole... "e 
rachis in its upper portion armed underneath with very; robust, 5—7-nate claws bifaced 
above and with a salient, smooth angle; leaflets numerous, subequidistant, not very 
approximate, ensiform, somewhat narrowing towards the base, gradually acuminate to 
he tip, 60 cm. long, 2:5 cm. broad, papyraceous, green and subconcolorous on both 
surfaces, with the mid-costa acute and naked on the upper surface, accompanied by 8 
few secondary nerves, one of which, on each side, is slightly stronger than the others, 
and furnished with remote bristles, especially from the middle upwards ; the mid-costa 
alone is bristly on the lower surface; transverse veinlets very minute, approximate, and 
numerous, not very sharp; lower margin on the upper surface opaque, very slightly 
thickened; margins very remotely, indistinctly and appressedly spinulous. The upper 
