162 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. ochrolepis 
Prate 65.—Daemonorops ochrolepis Bece. Upper portion of a leaf-sheath with the 
lower portion of a female spadix in flower; an entire fruiting spadix ; intermediate 
portion of a leaf (under surface). From Merrill’s No. 2069 in Herb. Manill. 
DAEMONOROPS OCHROLEPIS var. RADULOSUS Becc. 
Descrirtion.—Rather robust.  Sheathed stem about 4 cm. in diameter, copiously 
armed with interrupted, approximate, oblique series of peetinate, very slender, rigid 
bristles, which are united by their bases into very narrow, membranous, interrupted 
crests, Ocrea very short, liguliform, apparently bristly. Leaves large; petiole about 
18 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, flat on the upper surfac3, convex on the back, and like 
the lower portion of the rachis (which is flattened and biconvex) covered on both 
surfaces, but especially on the upper, with very small, but robust, almost uniform 
ascendent spines; in its upper portion the rachis is convex, bifaced above and has 
the salient angle spinulous; leaflets as in the typical form, the largest as much as 
50 cm. long and 35-38 mm. broad, The portions of fruiting spadix seen by me 
do not differ from the corresponding parts of the typical form. fruit spherical, very . 
shortly and conical-beaked, only 18 mm. in diameter, but it is not quite mature, 
Hanrrar.— The Philippines: Tayabas Province, Luzon, H. M. Curran, March 1998. 
To this same variety I refer a fruiting specimen collected in Mindanao, Camp Keithley, 
Lake Lanao, by Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens, Jan. 1907, No. 898. (In this specimen the 
fruits are globose-ovoid, only 15 mm, in diameter, but they are very immature.) 
OBSERVATIONS.—This variety differs from the type, in the petiole and lower 
portion of the rachis not being smooth, but densely prickly on both surfaces; also 
in the salient angle of the rachis being spinulous throughout to the very end of 
the pinniferous part. 
To the variety radulosus of D. ochrolepis apparently belongs a specimen with 
male spadices which was collected by Zoher at Siya bundoc (Province Rizal), Philippines, 
June 1905 (No. 7078 in Herb. Kew.) Of this I subjoin a description. 
The sheathed stem is about 3 cm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths armed with several 
oblique series of pectinate slender spines, which are darker, stronger, and longer 
than in Clemens’s specimens No. 898 from Mindanao; petiole strongly prickly on 
its upper surface; salient angle of the rachis spinulous; leaflets as in the type. 
Male spadiz erect, elongate, before flowering very narrow and terete, 1-l'l m. 
long, 1 cm. in diameter, composed of 9-10 partial inflorescences and an equal 
number of primary spathes; during the anthesis the panicle is strict and very 
narrow; pedicellar part rather elongate, rather densely armed with ascendent, straight, 
spiculiform spines; primary spathes before flowering cylindrical, covered externally 
with a very adherent, thin, brown-furfuraceous indumentum; internally they are 
polished, striate and of a cinnamon-brown colour; their mouth truncate and fringed 
or ciliate with rigid, blackish, bristle-like spiculae; the outermost spathe covers only 
. the base of the next within, is armed with scattered spiculae externally, acutely 
keeled on the back, and terminating in a broadly triangular point: when spread out 
