D. pseudo-mirabilis] BECCARI THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 179 
Hasrrar.—Cultivated in the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg where it is said to 
have been introduced from 'Palembang. Malay an name *' Rotang Lela.” 
OnssrRvATIONs.— Very similar to D. mirabilis, from which it differs in the rather 
different disposition of the collars around the sheaths, if this can be taken as a 
true and reliable character, 
In D, mirabilis 5 or 6 large collars are immediately opposed to other collars 
of equal breadth, and with these latter form complete closed circular ant-galleries ; 
but in Ð. pseudo-mirabilis 6—7 large, reversed, membranous collars, which like small 
petticoats, clothe at almost regular and short intervals every leaf-sheath, are opposed 
to much narrower collars, and consequently the resulting ‘galleries are not entirely 
closed by the membranous part of the collars, but by their decussating spiculae. 
To D. pseudo-mirabilis would appear to belong a specimen forwarded to me by 
Mr. H. N. Ridley under No. 3515, but I do not know if it was gathered on a 
wild plant, or on one cultivated at Singapore in the botanical garden; this specimen 
consists of an intermediate portion of a leaf with two groups of leaflets, and of the 
terminal portion of a spadix with full grown fruits. The leaflets differ from those 
of the specimen from Buitenzorg, described above, only in the nerves being quite 
smooth and bare on both surfaces; the spikelets in the Singapore specimen are slightly 
shorter tban in the other, while the fruits are rather larger; its fruits are 14-16 mm. 
in diameter; the scales are of an uniform yellowish-brown colour; the seed is enveloped 
in an abundant crustaceous (once fleshy) integument; divested of this it is 
conspicuously flattened, laterally subreniform, 11 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, 6 mm. 
thick, rather minutely pitted, with a small round chalazal fovea almost in the centre 
of the raphal side; albumen deeply ruminated; embryo basal. 
Prate 74.—Daemonorops pseudo-mirabilis Bece.? Upper end of a fruiting spadix; 
intermediate portion of a leaf (under-surface) From Ridley’s specimen No. 3515 in 
Herb. Beccari. 
PLATE. 75.— Daemonorops pseudo-mirabilis Becc. Portion of the (sheathed stem; 
the upper end of a leaf; fruiting spadix: a small portion of a leaf-sheath split 
longitudinally, showing on one of its edges the collars in section and the spines 
crossing each other, From a plant cultivated at Buitenzorg (Herb. Beccari). 
70. Darmonorops Forgesi Bece. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 227. 
Description.—Scandent, slender. Sheathed stem 10-12 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths 
cylindrical, ultimately glabrous, rather thin, easily splitting longitudinally, slightly 
gibbous above, furnished in their upper part with a large and complete, broadly 
membranous, reversed, light-coloured collar, formed by the confluent bases of numerous, 
very slender, filiform, bristly spiculae, of which some are as much as 45 em. 
long, filiform, delicate, flexible, of a straw-yellow colour, and others, which alternate 
with these, are shorter, criniform, black and brittle; in opposition to this large 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
