D. turbinatus] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 225 
20 to 40 em. long in the pinniferous part, the petiole is much flattened, and 
slightly prickly, or almost smooth, on the edges; the leaflets are 10-20 cm, long, 
5-12 mm. broad, very closely and minutely bristly on 3 nerves beneath; the cirrus 
is 15-20 cm. long. Spadia 10-30 cm. long. Fruit ovoid, with a broadly-conical 
acute apex, about 15 mm. long, 10 mm. broad. 
Hasrrar,—Duteh N.-W. Borneo.  Liang-gagang in the Residency of Sambas. 
(Hallier’s Nos. 2759 and 2596 in Herb. Hort, Bot. Bogor.). 
OnsrRvATIONS,— Distinguishable from var. minor by the armament of the mouths 
of the leaf-sheaths, where the unusually long, erect spines, peculiar to all other 
forms of D. Hystriz are wanting. 
Prate 105.—Daemonorops Hystrix var. exulans Bece. Portion of the plant with 
nearly mature fruits, on the right hand side of the plate; from  Hallier's No. 2759 
(Herb. Hort. Bot. Bogor.) Portion of the sheathed stem and a spadix with immature 
fruits; portion of a sheathed stem with 2 male spadiees, one in flower, the other 
not yet open: from Hallier’s No. 2596 (Herb. Hort. Bot, Bogor.). 
68bis. (88) DaEMoNOROPS TURBINATUS Bece. n. sp. 
DzscRiPTION,—Seandent, of moderate size, Sheathed stem 1°5-2°5 cm. in diam. Leaf- 
sheaths strongly gibbous above, obliquely truncate at the mouth, which is fringed 
with many long criniform spiculae; the gibbosity is almost polished, and usually quite 
unarmed; immediately below the gibbosity the leaf-sheaths are furnished with one 
or two pairs of large, complete, membranous, almost equally broad, approximate and 
decussating spiniferous collars, between which follow several other collars, more or less 
complete, with a sometimes rather broad, sometimes narrow, or even rudimentary 
membranous part turned in opposite directions, but not paired. The surface of the 
sheaths between the collars is glabrous and almost polished; the edges of the collars 
are armed with several, spaced, very long and slender, flat, elastic, brown or spadiceous 
spines, and between these with innumerable, blackish, minute spiculae. Leaves rather large, 
cirriferous; the petiole is biconvex, except in its lowest part, where it is flattish, or slightly 
concave on its upper surface, and convex on the back; the edges are rather obtuse and, 
armed with small, short prickles, occasionally slightly reversed; the dorsum along the 
centre is smooth, or but sparingly prickly ; the rachis has its upper surface rather broad, ` 
flattish or slightly convex in its lowest part, with an acute salient angle and flat side 
faces towards the end; on the lower surface, the rachis is polished and armed along the 
centre with a line of solitary claws which become ternate towards the end, and on 
the cirrus. Leaflets not very numerous, very inequidistant, and more or less distinctly 
approximated into 3-4 groups, separated by vacant spaces of very unequal lengths; 
the lowest group has 3-5 leaflets on each of the rachis inserted at an angle 
of about 45° and spaced 5-10 mm., or at times 2-3 cm, apart; in the upper 
groups the leaflets are more and more irregularly spaced; the leaflets are ensiform, 
‘or narrowly-lanceolate, broadest about their middle, and thence almost equally tapering 
towards both ends; their base is narrow and acute, and the apex is slightly bristly, 
especially on a small indentation at the beginning of the tail-like tip, which 
Ann. Roy. Bor, Garp., Catcurra, Vor. XII. 
