206 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. TD, /ongispathus 
D. longipes seems to vary also a good deal in the dimensions of the fruit. 
The largest seen by me are those of Ridley’s specimen No. 6276, from Singapore, 
which are 23 mm, long (including the beak and the  perianth) and 15 mm. broad, 
while in Riedel’s specimen from Billiton the fruit is 18-20 mm. long (including 
the beak and perianth) and 12 mm. broad; the seed is 11-125 mm. long and 
9-9°5 mm. broad and 8 mm. thick. The fruits from Sungei Liat in Bangka are also 
8 mm. long and 12 mm. broad. The leaves vary in the degree of regularity of 
arrangement of the leaflets, sometimes these being almost equidistant throughout except 
at the upper end, 
Some fruits preserved in the Leiden Herbarium and said to have been collected 
by Siebold in Japan (probably in the Liu Kiu islands) are undistinguishable 
from those of V. longipes, except that they are smaller, 19 mm. long (including beak 
and perianth) and 10 mm. broad. 
D. longipes is easily distinguishable by its leaf sheaths armed with very 
broadly laminar spines, which are particularly long around the mouth of the 
leaf-sheaths; by the hispid ocrea; by the leaves with more or less inequidistant, but 
not grouped, leaflets; by the entirely unarmed thin primary spathes; by the elliptical 
fruit; by the obconical pedicelliform fruiting perianth; by the male spikelets with 
flatly bifarious ascendent flowers, and finally by the male flowers which have a 
nectariform tubercle between the bases of the filaments. 
Prate 92.—Daemonorops longipes Mart. Intermediate portion of a leaf (upper 
surface); lower portion of a female spadix in flower; an entire partial inflo- 
rescence with not quite mature fruits (in the lower part of the plate): from 
Ridley’ No. 2196 in Herb. Beccari. The upper end of a spadix with quite 
mature fruits: from Ridley’s No. 6276 in Herb. Beccari. 
Prate 93.—Daemonorops longipes Mari, The lower portion of a male spadix 
in flower with the lowest entire partial inflorescence: from a plant cultivated at 
Buitenzorg in Herb. Beccari. Male spadix; intermediate portion of a leaf (upper 
surface); lower portion of a petiole (back view): from Ridley’s No. 6292 in Herb. 
Beccari. 
82. DAEMONOROPS LONGISPATHUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 230. 
DzscRiPTION.—A rather robust plant, apparently beginning to flower when a 
young and erect plant, but later scandent. Sheathed stem 3-4 cm. in diameter, Leaf. 
sheaths not gibbous above, more or less covered, like all the other parts of the plant 
except the leaflets, with a  rusty-brown adherent scurf, and densely armed with 
numerous unequal, but frequently large spines, which are as much as 5-6 cm. long 
and 2-4 mm. broad at their bases, flat, elastic, very acuminate, ascendent or spreading 
solitary, or at times more or less transversely  seriate, very light-coloured but 
covered in the young shoots with small approximate patches of rusty scurf : near 
the mouth, on the ventral side, the spines are very crowded, and larger iban in 
