D. Kunstlerii | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 151 
Hasrrat.—Celebes: Menado in the Province of Minabassa (Riedel) Vernacular name 
* Angah," but I find this name also applied to D. macropterus. At Menado it had 
been collected also by Koorders (No. 183898 in Herb. Hort. Bot. Bog.) 
OnsERvATIONSs,—| have seen a few fruits of authentic JD,  Riedelianus, in the 
Leyden Herbarium, and other fruits of the same gathering, accompanied by a very 
small portion of a leaf, in the Utrecht Herbarium. 
Koorderss specimen consists of an entire fruiting spadix, an intermediate 
portion of a leaf, and a portion of a leatsheath. The fruiting spadix is about 40 
cm. long and bears 5 partial inflorescences ; these are appressed to the main axis, 
small, and have few spikelets; the peduncular part of the spadix is slender, densely 
prickly all round; the fruit and seed are exactly like those of the type specimens; 
the leaflets, however, are narrower, about 30 cm. long and 15 mm, broad, and 
haye the mid-costa and one nerve on each side of it bristly spinulous on the upper 
surface; beneath only the mid-costa is rather closely bristly throughout. 
In the type specimen the leaflets are 23-24 mm. broad and 30 cm. long, with 
3 bristly nerves above, while underneath 3, and occasionally 4 nerves are more 
or less bristly. | 
D. Riedeliamus is very closely related to D. Gaudichaudi from which it differs 
in the armament of the leaf-sheaths, in its smaller fruit, and in the seed, which 
has an almost basal embryo, whereas in Ð. Gaudichaudii the embryo is almost 
on the antiraphal side. 
57. DarMowoRors Kunsttert Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 469; and ia 
Ree. Bot. Surv. Ind. ij 226. 
D. elongatus (non Bl.) Ridley, Mat. Fl, Mal. Pen. ii, 185 (partly?). 
Descripi1on.—Erect, 60 cm. to 1 m. high, or at times somewhat elongate 
(Scortechini). Sheathed stem 2-3°5 cm. in diameter.  .Leaf-sheaths 2-3°5 cm. in diam. 
thickly coriaceous or almost woody, slightly gibbous above, split open a long way 
down the ventral side, abundantly covered with dark furfuraceous scurf, densely 
armed with unequal spines of which several are 2-2*5 cm. long, rather robust, flat, 
rather broad, greyish brown, rigid, obliquely inserted, more or less seriate, but 
individually distinct, and with a conspicuous lighter coloured basilar swelling. 
intermingled with these are other very slender spines, spiculiform or acicular ; near 
the mouth the spines are ascendent and up to 5-10 cm. iong. Leaves paripinnate 
or shortly cirriferous, elongate, about 1°5 m. long, not including the petiole; the latter 
also elongate (45-50 cm. 1 em. broad, fugaciously grey-furfuraceous, smooth, on 
the upper surface very slightly channelled near the base, flattish with a 
slightly salient angle higher up; beneath convex and armed along the 
centre, especially near the base, with a line of long, robust, straight spires; its 
margins armed near the base with similar robust, spreading, and at the base 
callous spines; rachis armed beneath with, at first solitary, but near the upper end 
3-nate, or even 5-nate claws; the upper surface is at first convex, but the flat 
