D. sparsiflorus] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROFS. 991 
about their middle. Male spadiz .... Female spadix inserted laterally near the mouth of the 
leaf-sheaths; the fruiting panicle is small, short, 11-12 cm. long, erect, has a very 
short pedicellar part (10-20 mm. long), smooth, or slightly prickly on the margins; the 
panicle is rather dense, formed by 3-4 very small branches or partial inflorescences, 
each of these composed of 3-5 spikelets; primary spathes .... spikelets very small, 15-20 
mm. long, with 3-5 flowers in all; inyolucrophorum callous at its axilla, very briefly 
pedicellate, expanded into a bracteiform, concave, asymmetrical and at one side acute 
limb; involucre symmetrical, very shallowly cupuliform, entire; areola of the neuter 
flower rather depressed with a very distinct callous rim above. Fruiting perianth 
almost explanate. Fruit small, globose-ovoid slightly and conically diminishing at upper 
end and very shortly beaked, 17 mm. in length including the perianth, 12 mm. 
broad; scales arranged in 15 longitudinal series, rather polished, slightly and broadly 
grooved along the centre, yellowish-brown with a narrow lighter scarious margin, and 
a black obtuse point. Seed somewhat flattened, suborbicular, almost equally convex 
he "ae surfaces, not ventricose on the raphal side, about 10 mm, broad, 7 mm, 
thick. 
Hasitat.—In the small Island of Bakau to the north of the Island of Linga 
at 0°. 21 N. Lat., probably collected by Teiysmann (Herb. Hort. Bot. Bogor.) 
OBsERVATIONS.—It is apparently related to D. pseudo-sepal, with which it agrees 
in its general aspect, in the equally armed costulate leaf-sheaths, and in the small, 
slightly-branched  spadiees; but it differs in the broader leaflets, and especially in 
the smaller ovoid fruit. It is also nearly allied to D. Halkerianus, but this has very 
regularly-set, approximate leaflets, and a rather large round fruit; while D. bakauensis 
has sub-inequidistant and rather remotely-set leaflets, smaller fruit and seed, and 
these of a different shape. 
D. bakauensis is however one of those forms of the Cymbospatha group, destitute 
of prominent characteristics, which approach to more than one species, but do not 
exactly agree with any one of them, therefore, though reluctantly, we are obliged to 
distinguish it with a distinct name. 
Puare 100.—Daemonorops bakauensis Bere. The entire type specimen in Herb, 
Hort. Bot. Bogor. 
47. DAEMONOROPS SPARSIFLORUS VAR. SARAWAKENSIS Bece. n. var. 
DESCRIPTION.—Sheathed stem 2-2°5 cm. in diam, Leaf-sheaths, apparently when 
young, conspicuously mottled with white and green (the light-coloured patches 
resulting from a thin coating of white scurf), almost horizontally truncate at the 
mouth, where they are briefly edged by a rudimentary, membranous, dry, brittle, 
deciduous ocrea, and are almost without spines; the leaf-sheaths are also conspicuously 
pluri-costulate longitudinally, smooth on the costae, otherwise armed with scattered, 
broadly laminar, elongate-triangular, brown, very acuminate, very thin and elastic, 
spines, usually 1-3 cm. long, but at times much less. Leaves 0'9-1:1 m. long in the 
pinniferous part, prolonged into a long, very closely and very minutely clawed 
cirrus; the petiole is flattened, biconvex, 15-18 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad, sparingly 
