D. Hallieranus] BECCAHI THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 919 
when young with a dark tobacco-coloured, partly fugacious indumentum, and rather 
powerfully armed with obliquely and irregularly seriate, long, thinly-laminar, almost 
confluent, blackish or schistaceous, elastic, 15-28 mm. long spines; petiole rather 
elongate, 20-30 cm. long,  flattish and smooth on the upper surface; 
convex and more or less prickly or even almost smooth along the centre on 
the back; the margins acute and armed with straight spines, especially near its 
base, where they are longer than higher up, at times as much as 5-6 cm. in 
length; the rachis has on the back a line of claws along the centre, solitary 
at first, ternate towards the upper end, quinate on the cirrus; the salient angle on 
the upper surface is very sharp and smooth; leaflets very numerous and approxi- 
mate, 12-15 mm. apart, very regularly equidistant, narrowly or linear-ensiform, very 
finely acuminate, sub-3-costulate; on the upper surface the side costulae have short 
bristles throughout from not very far above their bases, but the mid-costa is bristly 
only near the apex; on the lower surface the mid-costa alone is very minutely, 
and very closely ciliate; at times on the upper surface another secondary nerve 
is more or less bristly; margins closely bristly-spinulous; the intermediate leaflets, 
which are the largest, are 25-30, or at times 30-35 cm. long, 12-13 or also 
16-17 mm. broad. Spadices before the anthesis rather narrowly fusiform, erect, 
inserted not far below the mouths of their respective sheaths, almost sessile, but with 
their short pedicellar part decurrent along the sheaths, and densely prickly; the 
outermost spathe is cymbiform, very donsely armed with long (up to 4 em.), 
slender, feeble and flexible, reversed, subseriate spines, and is prolonged to a beak 
about as long as the body, at times furnished on its upper part with a few, but 
very long, rigid, hair-like spiculae; the second spathe is armed with ascendent 
spiculae, especially along two very obsolete carinae. Female flowers ovoid, 8 mm. long. 
The fruiting panicle is small, erect, 10-12 cm. long, dense, formed by 4-5 very 
small, very approximate branches or partial inflorescences, each of these composed of 
9-5 spikelets; the spikelets are very small, 15-25 mm. long and carry 3-5 
flowers in all; involucrophorum callous at its axilla, more or less pedicelliform 
(1-3 mm. long), expanded at its upper end into a bracteiform, concave, asymmetrical 
and at one side acute limb; involucre shallowly cupuliform, often slightly asymme 
trical and more or less split on the margin; areola of the neuter flower depressed, 
more or less callous round the scar. Fruiting perianth explanate; the calyx, split in 
3 parts, obscurely striate-costulate or almost smooth. Fruit spherical, 16-17 mm. 
in diameter, terminating in a short, conical, very acute beak; scales rhomboidal, 
slightly broader than long, arranged in 15 longitudinal series, not deeply and rather 
broadly grooved along the centre; they are dull of an uniform reddish or 
cinnamon-brown colour, and have an almost polished, narrow, smooth (not crisped), 
darker band all round; the extreme margin is very obsoletely erose; the point is 
obtuse. Seed subglobular-reniform, broader than long, slightly flattened, slightly 
ventricose on the raphal side, very minutely granulate, 12-125 mm. long, 14:5 mm. 
broad, 10 mm. thick. 
Hasrrat.—N.-W. Borneo. The type specimens I consider those of the Buitenzorg 
Herbarium collected by Haller (Nos. 874 and 375) at Pulan Lemukutan, a small 
island. near the north-west coast of Borneo in the Residency of Sambas. It has been 
found, also bv Hallier, at Liang-gagan in this same Residency and also at Sungei 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garn., CarcurrA, Vor. XII. 
