D. Curranii] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 143 
slightly flattened, the others obsoletely angular; secondary and tertiary spathes 
inconspicuous; partial inflorescences triangular in outline, the lower, the largest, - 
11-12 cm. long; the upper shorter, with 5-7 bifarious, regularly alternate, spreading 
spikelets on each side; the axis of the partial inflorescences straight, very acutely 
3-4-gonous; the lower spikelets, the largest, 3:5-4:5 em. long, with 6 to 9 bifarious 
flowers on each side, their axes very acutely angular, and zig-zag sinuous; upper 
spikelets shorter, and with fewer flowers; spathels scarious, very shortly annular and 
embracing, produced at one side into a triangular spreading acute point; involucro. 
phorum shortly but distinctly pedicelliform, 1-2 mm. long, angular, very spreading 
or horizontal when bearing the fruit, distinctly callous in its axilla, truncate and 
with a very short triangular point at one side at its apex; involucre slightly 
raised above the involucrophorum, its limb represented by a very narrow annular rim 
round the flat orbicular scar left by the flower: areola of the neuter flower rather 
small, concave, niche-like, not callous. Female flowers 5 mm, long when in bud, with 
an ovate base and a trigonus apex; the calyx very shallowly cupular with 3 broad 
acute teeth; the corolla 4 times as long as the calyx, parted down almost to the 
base into 3 elongately triangular, sharply striately veined segments. Fruiting perianth 
very broadly obconic and therefore not distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit small, spherical, 
very shortly and broadly conically beaked, 12 mm. in diameter when quite ripe ; 
scales in 12-14 longitudinal series, polished, narrowly and sharply grooved along 
the centre, exactly rhomboid, with an obtuse tip, straw-yellow with very narrow 
almost entire margins, Seed globular, slightly depressed, 10 mm. broad, 8 mm. high 
its surface pitted and tubercled. 
Hasirar.—The Philippines: Palawan, H. M. Curran, February 1906 (No. 3791, 
Herb. Manill,); Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake  Lanao, September-October 1907, 
Mary Strong Clemens (No. 1280 in Herb. Manill.) 
OBsERVATIONS,— D. Currant is a near ally of D. elongatus BL, from which it 
differs in the leaves having equidistant leaflets; in the leaf-sheaths armed with 
slender seriate, very approximate spicular, instead of scattered, laminar spines; in 
the rachis being spinulous on the salient angle; and in the slightly larger fruit. 
To D. Curranii I refer the plant collected by Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens in 
Mindanao (Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, September-October 1907’, although endowed 
with some peculiarities by which it differs from the type of D. Curranii growing 
in Palawan. The following are its principal characteristics :—Leaf-sheaths 2-5 em. in 
diam, armed with irregular rows of stiff bristle-like spiculae, which are 15-20 mm. 
long, more or less united by their bases so as to form a narrow laminar raised 
crest ; the mouth of the leaf-sheaths is armed with many, imbricate, very long, 
laminar, ascendent, blackish spines; the petiole is rather elongate, subterete-biconvex 
being very slightly flattened, armed all round with very short ascendent prickles; 
rachis also more prickly on the salient angle of the upper surface than in the 
type; leaflets numerous, equidistant, 2-3 cm. apart, with the mid-costa, . and 
2 nerves on each side of it, bristly-spinulous; underneath the mid-costa alone 
bristly-spinulous. Female spadiz with a pedicellar part covered with stiff bristles 
which are united by their often swollen bases. Fruit (not quite mature) globose- 
