D, vagans j J3ECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 153 
long, not at all produced at the apex. Seed globular, minutely tubercled, 11-12 mm. 
in diameter; albumen with numerous narrow channels penetrating almost to the centre ; 
embryo basal. | 
HasrrAr,— The Malayan Peninsula: on Gunong Tambang Batak in the district of 
Perak (Scortechini No. 652° in Herb. Beccari); on the hills of the same district ( King's 
collector, No. 10204 in Herb. Caleutt.). 
OBSERVATIONS.—lIt is certainly closely related to D. vagans, but the latter is a scandent 
plant, whereas D. Kunstlerti appears to be erect, has the leaf-sheaths armed with 
individually distinet although seriate spines, and split open on the ventral side in their 
upper parts, which gradually pass into the petiole without the gibbosity so charac- 
teristic of the scandent species. In D. vagans the. leaf-sheaths are obliquely truncate at 
the mouth, and are armed with confluent spines, which form several membranous 
transverse spinuliferous crests, The fruit of D. Aunsélerii is slightly larger than that of D. 
vagans, and has 18 longitudinal series of scales instead of 15; the leaflets are longer 
and comparatively narrower in D. Kunstlerii than in D. vagans. 
I have described Scortechini’s specimens, which have a female spadix not yet 
open and another with quite matnre fruit. In the Calcutta specimens the fruit is 
immature, and is therefore smaller and narrows more gradually to the beak; the leaflets 
are also larger, as much as 55 cm. long, and 23-24 mm. broad, but otherwise identical 
with those of Scortechini's specimen. In the flowering female spadix I have been unable 
to discover any trace of a neuter flower; also in ‘the spikelets, when bearing the 
fruits, the areola of the neuter flower is quite obsolete. 
Ridley (l. c.) wrongly reduces D. Kunsélerii to D. elongatus Bl. 
Prate 61.—Daemonorops Kunstlerii Bece. Female spadix in flower; upper portion 
of the stem with an entire spadix in fruit; one seed entire and the two halves of 
one longitudinally cut through the embryo. From Scortechini’s No. 652° in Herb. 
Beccari, 
58. Darmonorops VAGANS Bece. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 469, and in Rec. Bot. 
Surv, Ind. ii, 226, 
Description.—-Scandent, rather slender, 4:5-8:5 m. high. Sheathed stem 17 mm 
in diameter (in one specimen).  Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, obliquely truncate at the 
mouth, armed with numerous bristle-like, black spiculae, intermingled with flat 
laminar, deflexed spines, united by their bases to form several transverse, interrupted, 
and irregular crests; a few erecto-patent, long and strong spines occur near the 
mouth. Leaves elongate, 2-2:2 m. long including the petiole and cirrus; petiole 
rather elongate, slightly flattened-biconvex with very obtuse margins which are powerfully 
armed, especially near their base, with robust, long, straight, slightly deflexed spines; 
the dorsum is also armed near the base with deflexed spines; the rachis in the upper 
part of the leaf is acutely trigonous, beneath flat, and armed with rather strong 3-nate 
and on the cirrus 5-nate claws; on the upper surface it has an acute, smooth, salient 
Ann. Ry. Bor. Garn., Carcurra, Vr. XII. 
