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with rather sharp edges, covered on both surfaces and especially near the margins with 
small, ascendent spines; rachis convex and prickly on the upper surface in its lower 
portion; towards the apical part the salient angle becomes acute and closely spinulous ; 
underneath the rachis is armed towards the base with solitary very sharp claws, which 
higher up become at first 3-nate and thén 5-nate. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 
closely set; those of the intermediate portion are 15-20 mm. apart, narrowly lanceo- 
late, opaque and concolorous on both surfaces, 20-23 cm. long, 14-18 mm. broad, 
narrowing from below the middle to a rather acute base, acuminate to a filiform and 
laterally bristly tip; on the upper surface the mid-costa and one rather slender nerve 
on each side of it are rather closely set with bristles; underneath the mid-costa 
alone carries a few long bristles, Mule spadiz elongate before flowering, very narrow 
and subterete, about 12 mm. in diam., 45 cm. long and erect; it has a very 
short densely prickly pedicellar part, about 2 em. long, furnished with 7-8 
primary spathes, each of these rising in gradation out of that immediately below ; 
the outer spathe is rather acutely two-keeled, with tufts of small radiating 
spiculae on the keels, otherwise it is almost smooth, obliquely truncate at the 
mouth, which bears a few spiculae and prolonged al the apex into a rather 
long, prickly, tail-like narrow rostrum; the other spathes terminate also in a more 
or less prickly slender rostrum, otherwise they are smooth. Male flowers in comparison 
with those of other species are very long and slender, being 8-10 mm. in length 
and only 1 mm, thick; the calyx is tubular, elongate and cylindrical, shortly 
3-dentate; the segments of the corolla are very narrow, striate, acuminate, and almost 
3 times as long as the calyx; anthers very narrowly linear, 
Hazrrat.—Discovered by JZoher in Luzon at Siya Bundoe, Prov. of Rizal in the 
Philippines, in June 1905 (No. 7073 in Herb. Kew.). 
Osservations.—Of this very distinct species I have seen only one specimen, 
with young male spadices, It is apparently related to the species of the group of 
D. lamprolepis; the outer spathe, however, is as in the species of the group of D, 
Hystriz much shorter than the inner ones, but in the absence of the fruit its exact 
affinities must remain doubtful. D. LoAerianus is easily distinguishable by the very 
strongly biconvex petiole, and especially by the very slender and, relatively, very 
long male flowers which have a tubular calyx, and by the mouths of the leaf-sheaths 
being quite smooth, and devoid of any kind of spine, bristle or cilia. 
Pirate 41.— Daemonorops Loherianus Becc, It represents the type specimen in 
the Herbarium at Kew. 
38. Dasmonorors Draco Blume, Rumphia iii, 8 (partly as to description) 
pl. 132, and perhaps also pl. 137 C., and excluding pl. 131; Martius, Hist. 
Nat. Palm. iii, 205, 2nd edit. (partly) and pl. 175, x. f. 1 (fruit) and 
probably also f. 6, 8 (seed); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 95, and Prodr. Fl, 
Sum, 78. 
Calamus Draco Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, I, 203; Mart, Hist, Nat. Palm. iii, 211, Ist 
edit, (excl. f. ix. pl. 116); Roxburgh Fl, Ind. iii, 774 (partly). 
€. Rotang 8 Draco Linn. Sp. Pl. 463. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. GARD., CarcurrA, Vor, XII. 
