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orbicular, with an almost inconspicuous annular limb ; areola of the neuter 
flower very small, punctiform, slightly callous. Female flowers (judging from their 
remains in the fruiting perianth) narrowly conical, 3-3:5 mm. in diameter on the 
flat base, avd 7 mm. long ; the calyx shallowly cupular, truncate, with 3 
small apicules ; the corolla about 5 times as long as the calyx, divided 
down almost to the middle into 38, narrowly triangular, acute segments. Fruiting 
perianth with a distinct pedicelliform cylindraceous base, 2-3 mm. long. Fruit 
globular-ellipsoidal or broadly ovvid-elliptical, rounded at both ends but very 
abruptly terminating in a distinct conical beak, caudiculate at the base, 23-24 mm, 
long, including the beak and perianth, 16-17 mm. broad; scales arranged in 15 
longitudinal series, polished, exactly rhomboidal, narrowly grooved along the centre, 
orange when fresh, straw-coloured with a reddish hue when dry; their point not 
produced and obtuse; the margin minutely erose. Seed oblong, rounded at both ends, 
somewhat laterally flattened, finely tubercled, 15 mm. long, 12 mm, broad, 10 mm. 
thick; embryo basal. 
Hanrrar,— Sumatra. Discovered by H. O. Forbes in 1881 at Pane Passumah at 
about 1200 m. elevation. No. 2538 in Herb. Calcutt. 
OsseRvATIONS.—In the group of D. mirabilis it is distinguishable by its leaf-sheaths 
which have only 1-2 pairs of collars in their upper part, by its leaflets with 5 
bristly nerves on the under-surface, and by the cylindraceous and distinctly pedicelli- 
form fruiting perianth. 
PLATE 76.—Daemonorops Forbesii Bece. From the type specimen No, 2538 in the 
Herb. Caleutt. 
71. DarwoNoRoPs Sasut Becc. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 469 and in Rec. 
Bot, Surv. Ind. nu, 227. 
Description.—Scandent, slender. Sheathed stem 11-12 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths 
cylindrical, elongate, bristiy-spinulous at the mouth, covered while young with a 
rusty cottony furfuraceous scurf, rather thin and easily splitting longitudinally, each 
furnished with 2-3 complete, broad, membranous, reversed, petticoat-like, light-coloured 
collars, formed by the confluent bases of numerous, very slender, needle-like, 
unequal, at times very long, black spiculae; in addition to these large collars and 
interposed between them are several other narrower rings, from which radiate innu- 
merable, small, black, bristly spiculae that generally point downwards, but, at times, 
are almost horizontal; collars or rings in opposition to the reversed collars are wanting. 
Leaves 1-2 m. long (in one specimen) including the petiole and a very short rudimentary 
cirrus; the petiole alone is 40 cm. long, terete, 6-7 mm. in diameter, armed all round, 
especially at its base, with straight, digitate, divergent spines; the rachis on the upper 
surface has an acute, emooth, salient angle with slightly concave side-faces from the 
insertion of the lowest leaflets; on the under surface, the rachis is armed with 3-nate 
claws, which become smaller at the sub-cirriferous end; leaflets 32 in all (in 
