D. spectabilis) BECCARL THE SPECIES OF DARMONOROPS. 299 
protruded one beyond the other, and are quite smooth; the main axis is straight, 
absolutely angular, thinly furfuraceous, unevenly surfaced, with internodes 2°5-4 cm. 
long; partial inflorescences shorter than their respective spathes, the lower, which are 
the largest, are 10-1! cm. long, and carry alternately 2 or, at most, 3 spikelets on each 
side; they are at first quite appressed to the main axis, and only very slightly spreading 
or inserted at a very acute angle when loaded with fruits; are slightly callous at their 
axillas but have a deep transverse rima; the axes of the partial inflorescences are flattish 
on the axial side and have acute edges; secondary spathes membranous, tubular in 
their basal part and produced above into a triangular acuminate point; the 
spikelets are short, have few flowers and an acutely  trigonous axis; the largest 
spikelets are 5-6 cm. long, and have only 3-4 female flowers on each side; spathels 
membranous, striate, dry, very shortly tubular, produced at one side into a triangular 
point, which at first embraces its respective female and neuter flower, and is soon 
destroyed; each female flower is as usual accompanied by a neater flower, but this is 
only slightly smaller than the female, and therefore 2 almost equal flowers spring from 
each spathel in the spikelets before the anthesis ; involucrophorum sessile, membranous, 
obliquely cupular; involucre also obliquely cupular, membranous and similar to the 
involucrophorum, in which it is immersed; areola of the neuter flower conspicuous, 
flattish, ovate and with well-defined edges. Female flowers conical, very acute, relatively 
large, about 1 em. long; the calyx finely striately veined, broadly and deeply 3- 
lobed, later split into 3 parts down to the base; the corolla twice as long as the 
calyx, its segments triangular, acuminate and almost pungent; staminal urceolum 
conspicuous and thickish, crowned by 6 short teeth, and by triangular anthers. 
Neuter flow:rs very similar to the female, but somewhat smaller; they have a rather 
well conformed staminal urceolum and anthers, but an abortive ovarium. Fruiting 
pertanth not pedicelliform, but not quite explanate under the fruit. Fruit regularly 
ovoid or sub-obovoid, very shortly, broadly and conically beaked, about 2 cm. 
long and 12-13 mm_ broad; scales broader than long with a round point, arranged 
in 15 longitudinal series, each series of about 10, not reckoning the very small 
ones at both ends, very shallowly-grooved along the centre, dull brown, edged with 
a narrow, uniform, almost black, intramarginal line all round; the extreme margin 
very minutely fringed and ciliated. Seed not seen when quite mature. 
Haprrat.—N.-W. Dutch Borneo at Liang-gagang, in the Residency of Sambas; 
discovered by H. Hallier in 1893-94 (No. 2797 in Herb, Hort. Bot. Bogor.). 
OBSERVATIONS.—Tuis is a very fine and quite distinct species, apparently somewhat 
related to the species which have membranous spathes, such as D. longipes and D. longis- 
nathus. The portions of leaves which accompany the spadices in the Buitenzorg 
Herbarium evidently belong, in part, to the leaves of the upper part of a climbing 
plant, as they terminate in a long and very powerfully clawed cirrus; but in part 
are radical, or taken from a young plant, having only a rudimentary cirrus at 
their ends. The leaflets however are equal in all. 
Puare 108.—Daemonorops spectabilis Becc. A female spadix just before the 
anthesis; entire panicle with nearly mature fruits; an entire female spadix with 
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