5 SPEC Ps. 
D. scapigerus) BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONORO 197 
PLATE 87.— Daemonorops scapigerus Bece. Upper end of a leaf; 2 spadices with 
almost mature fruits; portion of a sheathed siem with the petiolar part of a 
leaf ; 
from the type specimen P. B. No. 22"5, in Herb. Beccari. 
DAEMONOROPS SCAPIGKRUS var. MINOR Becc. in kec. Bot. Surv. Ind. li, 229, 
Description.—Stem about 60 em. high (Lobb). Leaves 
excessively slender; the peduncular part in two specimens is 40 cm. long, filiform, 
slightly flattened, covered with a cottony easily removeable indumentum; at the base 
it is broad 15 cm., at the apex 4 mm.; on the upper part it carries only a few 
short horizontal spines on the margins; the flowering panicle is very short, 4-5 
cm. in length. and has 3-4 short partial inflorescences, cach bearing 5-6 flowers in 
all; primary spathes during the anthesis spreading and embracing the small 
inflorescences, lanceolate, concave, cymbiform, membranous, exsuccous, rusty furfuraceous, 
not keeled externally and entirely unarmed; in the fruiting spadix they are lacerated 
and almost destroyed ; Secondary spathes and other appendicular parts as in type. 
Female flowers 8 mm. long, exactly as described above down to the peculiarities of the 
staminal urceolum. Fruit globose, 17 mm, in diameter, suddenly narrowing to a 
couspicuous, black, stout, conical beak ; scales in 15 longitudinal Series, grooved 
along the centre, regularly rhomboidal, the largest 6 mm. broad, somewhat broader 
than long, of a straw-yellow colour, with very dark marginal line, the point 
obtuse, the margins very acute, almost entire. Seed. globular, 12 mm. in diameter ; 
albumen deeply ruminated ; embryo basal, 
Female spadiz 
Hasrtat,—Borneo: Sarawak, Lobb (1857) in Herb. Kew. 
OBSERVATIONS,— I have seen only two spadices, the one in flower, the other in 
fruit, of this plant which seems to me only a variety of D. scapigerus, although 
at first sight the spadices of the two may appear widely different on account of 
the very slender and almost unarmed peduncular part in the variety minor, and of 
its very short and scantily flowered panicle; but in the characters of the flowers 
and of the appendicular parts, I have not been able to discover an 
y appreciable 
ditference between the typical form and the variety. 
79. DAEMONOROPS PERIACANTHUS Miq. Prod. Fl. Sum. 256 and 593 (1860), and in 
Journ. Bot. Néerl i, 20; Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bog. 74; Becc, in Rew 
Bot. Surv. Ind. n, 229. 
Calamus (sect. Damonorops) periacanthus Miq. De Palm. Arc. Ind. 22 and 
28; H. Wendl. in Kerch, Palm., 237. 
Daemo.orops dissitophyllus Bece. Nelle Foreste di Borneo (1902) 608, and in 
Rec. Bot. Surv, Ind. ii, 229; Ridley Mat. Fl. Mal, Penin. li, 183. 
Rotang pertacanthus Baill, Hist. de Plant. xiii, 300. 
