160 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. ochrolepis 
D. Gaudichaudü is closely related to D. Jedelienus, a Celebes species. 
D. Gaudichaudii is a rather variable plant as to its size, degree of spinescence 
of its leaf-sheaths, dimensions of its leaflets, and shows also small variations in 
fruit and seed. | 
In the specimens from Luzon the sheathed stem is usually 2-3 em. in diameter; 
the fruit is usually 15-16 mm. in diameter, and the seed flattish, or slightly gibbous 
on the raphal side. 
The specimens from Mindoro somewbat differ from those from Luzon, In 
 Merrils No. 3741 from the Bongabong River, the sheathed stem is 4 cm. in diameter, 
and the fruits are 17-18 mm. in diameter and, when quite ripe, somewhat depressed, 
In the specimens from Calapan (also from Mindoro, Mangubat No. 918) the 
sheathed stem is 4-5 cm. in diameter; the leaflets are 22-25 mm. broad and have 
some long bristles on two nerves on the undersurface, The fruits are 18-19 mm. 
in diameter, conspicuously depressed, with the scales of a lighter straw-colour than 
usual, and tinged with reddish-brown at the point. 
Merrill’s No. 6218, also from Mindoro, has. the sheathed stem 4 cm. and the 
fruits 15-16 mm. in diameter; the collector’s note says: ‘‘very common; the non. 
commercial variety of Bejuco”. | 
Whitford’s No. 1371 ;Mindoro) has the fruits about 15 mm, in diameter, somewhat 
depressed, and the seed 11 mm. broad with the raphal side distinctly carinate at 
its base. Bolsters No. 353 from Mindanao is very similar to the specimens from 
Luzon; of it the collector notes that it is high-scanlent, and used for binding, 
Puate 64.—Daemonorops Gaudichaudii Mart. An intermediate portion of a leaf 
(under surface); a very small portion of the same leaf (under surface); an entire 
fruiting spadix; all from Merril's No. 868 in Herb. Berol. An entire spadix with 
the outer spathe in situ and with very young fruits, from  Loher's No. 1363 in 
Herb. Kew. 
61. DarwoNoRors ocHROLEPIS Bece, in Perkins, Fragm. Fl, Philipp. i, 47, and 
in Webbia i, 356.. 
DzscRrPTIoN,— Apparently scandent and rather large, ^ Lezf-shea?hs about 5 cm, 
in diameter, copiously armed with interrupted, approximate series of dark-brown or 
spadiceous, pectinate, rigid bristles. Ocrea short, liguliform, densely bristly, hispid, 
Leaves large; petiole biconvex, rather short, 16-18 mm. broad, smooth on both 
surfaces, armed with small, fascicled and divergent prickles on the rather acute edges; 
rachis armed beneath towards its upper end first with solitary, then 3-nate, and 
higher up ó-nate claws, bifaced on the upper surface, the salient angle acute and 
smooth; leaflets numerous, equidistant, usually 5-6 cm. apart, ensiform-lanceolate, 
tapering rather suddenly to their base, where strongly bent backwards, gradually acuini- 
nate above to a filamentose tip, marked with a rather distinct indentation on the 
