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Hanrrar.—S pecimens with mature fruit and with male flowers, of this very 
peculiar variety of D. sparsiflorus were collected on the Baram River in N.-W. 
Borneo (Sarawak) by Charles Hose (No. 703 Herb. Brit, Mus.) and by J. H. Hewitt 
(Herb. Kew.) Another specimen with male spadices only quite similar to the pre- 
ceding, collected by Hewitt, bears only the locality Sarawak and the native name 
** Rotan Sepal.” 
OssERvATIONS.— When I first wrote the description of D. sparsiflorus I considered 
as one of its most prominent characteristics tie female flower: not being distichally 
set on the axis of the spikelets, but spirally arranged all round it; but in this 
variety, which in every other respect agrees with the forma typica, the spikelets 
have plainly distichous flowers. 
Prate 101.—Daemonorops  sparsiflorus var. sarawakensis Bece. Portion of the 
sheathed stem with an entire male spadix in flower, and another not yet open; 
upper portion of a leaf. From Hewitt's specimen in Herb. Kew, labelled ** Rotan 
Sepal.” 
PrarE 102.—Daemonorops sparsiflorus vAR. sarawakensis Bece. (except the two 
spikelets with female flowers on the left side of the plate, Upper end of a leaf; 
an entire fruiting spadix: from the Baram specimen collected by Hewitt (Herb. 
Kew.) The two spikelets belong to the type specimens of D. sparsiflorus in Herb. 
Kew. 
47. DAEMONOROPS SPARSIFLORUS var, CRASSIFOLIUS Becc. n. var. 
Description—It differs from the forma typica, as well as from the variety 
sarawakensis in its larger leaves, with larger leaflets and of a thicker structure; 
in the dry condition, in herbarium specimens, the leaflets are brittle, and look 
as if they had been succulent when fresh. In the forma typica and in the variety 
sarawakensis they are also thickish, but not to such an extent as in the present 
variety. The largest leaflets are 35cm. long and 18-20 mm. broad. The male 
spadices I have seen are not fully evolute, they are however exactly like those 
of var. sarawakensis in respect of the structure of the spathes, but of these the outermost, 
which is 20 cm. long and 22 mm. broad, almost completely enwraps all the others; it is 
flattish or somewhat concave on the axial side, convex on the back, and bears, besides 
the long bristles at the apex, a few feeble, flaccid spines on its acute edges, 
It is not known if in fully evolute spadices the inner spathes protrude beyond the 
outermost, as in var. sarawakensis or if these remain always the shortest. If 
this be really the case, it would be, perhaps, convenient to raise this variety to the 
rank of a species. The male spikelets and the male flowers are identical with those 
of var. sarawakensis. 
Hasrrat—Dutch N.-W. Borneo at Liang-gagan in the Residency of Sambas 
(Hallier No. 2989 in Herb. Hort. Bot. Bogor.). 
Prate 103.—Daemonorops sparsiflorus vag. crassifolius Becc, The summit of a 
plant with a male, not yet open, spadix; a male spadix very near flowering; portion 
