202 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D. longipes 
angle of 45° with a distinct axillary callus, rigid with a rather slender sinuous 
axis; the lower ones of each inflorescence are the largest and ure 8-9 cm. long, and 
have 6-7 bifarious flowers on each side; spathels briefly annular, apiculate at one 
side ; involucrophorum short and thick, 2 mm, long, obconical ; involucre orbicular, 
very shallowly cupular, barely protruding beyond the involucrophorum ; areola of the 
neuter flower with a callous scar. Fruiting perianth broadly obconical, shortly 
pedicelliform. Fruit ellipsoidal-ovoid, very suddenly and briefly conicaliy beaked, 
25 mm. long, 16-17 mm. broad (when nearly mature); scales in 18 longi- 
tudinal series, 11-12 in each series, almost glossy, convex, deeply grooved, of a 
light greenish colour with a scarious erosely toothed margin and an obtuse brownish 
point. Seed ovoid; embryo basal. The different parts of the plant, petiole, rachis 
spadix, and fruit retain in the herbarium a light-green colour. 
Hasirat.—The Philippines: in the Island of Paragua, San Antonio Bay, at about 
600 m. above the level of the sea (Merrill, No. 868 in Herb. Manill. and Berol.) 
OnsERVATIONS,— Very closely related to D. longipes, but apparently more robust, 
with larger leaflets and fruit; the scales are arranged in 18 longitudinal series, and 
each series is composed of 11-12, whereas in D. longipes the series are 15, and 
each series has only 7-8 scales; on the whole, therefore, the fruit has far more 
numerous scales in D. virescens than in D, longipes, : 
„PLATE 91.—Daemonorops virescens Becc. Intermediate portion of a leaf (upper 
surface); lower portion of the petiole (front view); an entire fruiting spadix; from 
the type specimen in Herb. Berol, (Merril's No. 2069). 
81. Daremonorops LoNGiPES Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 205 (2nd edit. 1849), and 
329 pl. 176, f. V. 23; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iiij 93; Walp. Ann. iii, 478, 
and v, 828; Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 1866, 74; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. vi, 471; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 229; Ridley Mat. 
Fl. Mal. Penins. i, 184. 
Calamus longipes Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 68 (1845), and Palms 
Brit. Ind, 78 (excl. Rumph’s ve pl. CCIII A.B.; H, Wendl. in Kerch. 
Palm. 234, excl. syu. 
Daemonorops strictus Bl. Rumphia 19, pl. 3 A; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 86, 
and in Journ. de Bot. Néerl. i, 18, and Prodr. Fl. Sum. 255; Walp. 
Ann. iii, 474, and v, 827. 
Calamus strictus Miq. De Palm. Arc. Ind. 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch. 
Palm. 237. 
Rotang longipes Baill. Hist, des Pl. xiii, 300. 
Description.—Apparently scandent. Lea/f-sheatls 3—3:5 cm, in diameter, thick, almost 
woody, not gibbous above, ultimately glabrous, very obliquely truncate at the mouth, 
thickly armed with stout, flat, elastic, scattered or subseriate, but individually 
distinct, brown, schistaceous spines which are broader than usual (4-6 mm. broad, 
