D. geniculatus] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS, 18e 
at Bujong Malacca (No. 9813 in Herb. Caleutt. and Beccari.). In Selangore at the 15th 
mile, Pahang Track (Ridley No. 8778 in Herb. Caleutt. and Beccari.). State of Pahang, 
Kuala Lepis (Machado No. 11635 from Ridley in Herb. Beccari.). . 
OBSERVATIONS.—AÀ very distinct, but rather variable, species, allied to D, verticile 
laris, The male spadix is almost identical in the two species and the spikelets of 
both are more similar to those of a Calamus than to those of the greater number of 
Daemonorops, and indeed they closely resemble the spikelets of the species of is 
group of C, palustris. 
Though externally the male spikelets of D. veriicillaris and D. geniculatus are 
very similar, their flowers are widely different internally, as those of the first have 
the stamens inserted about midway down the corolla, and have at the sides and at the 
base of each filament a fleshy globulur nectariform body, while in D. geniculatus 
the stamens are inserted in the bottom of the corolla and are devoid of these 
special nectariform bodies. D. geniculatus also differs considerably from D, verticillarie 
in the armament of the spathes and leaf-sheaths, these last in D. geniculatus not 
offering such perfect contrivances for harbouring ants as in the other. 
D. geniculatus varies in the length and armament of the petiole, and of the pedun- 
cular part of the spadix, in the degree of spinescence of the primary spathes, in the 
number of bristles on the nerves on the under-surface of the leaflets, in the more 
or less distinctly pedieelliform involucrophorum, and in the shape and size of the fruit. 
In Ridley’s No. 8778 from Selangore the completely mature fruit is somewhat 
larger than usual, ellipsoidal, 25 mm, long (including the perianth and beak) and 
19 mm. broad; the seed is globose-ovoid, 14 mm. long, 12 mm. broad. Ridley in 
the ‘ Materials” l. c. apparently considers D. geniculatus as different from the plant 
diagnosed in Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vi, p. 470, for after citing it he adds the word 
“ partly.” Perhaps Mr. Ridley supposes that the male flowers attributed in the “ Flora 
of British India” to D. geniculatus are not its own, but I am quite certain that 
they really belong to it, although very similar to those of D. verticillaris, as already 
stated above. I have been able to ascertain this fact by numerous Herbarium 
Specimens, and also by the manuscript notes and drawings of D. geniculatus and D. 
verticiliaris, made by the late Father Scortechini on the living plants in their native 
country. 
Pirate 81.—Daemonorops geniculatus Mart. An intermediate portion of a leaf 
qunder-surface); portion of a sheathed stem with an entire spadix in fruit: from 
Scortechini’s specimen No. 3016 in Herb. Beccari. Partial inflorescence with growing 
ovaries (in the upper part of the plate); from No. 7849 in Herb. Calc. 
Pirate 82.—Daemonorops geniculatus Mart, Base of the petiole and upper part of a 
leaf-sheath ; an intermediate portion of a leaf (under-surface); an entire male spadix ; 
an isolated outer spathe. From a specimen collected by  Scortechini in the District 
of Perak (Herb. Beccari). 
