D. floridus] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 931 
point; the spikelets are rigid, and have a strongly zig-zag sinuous, angular axis; 
spathels shortly, broadly and unilaterally infundibuliform, produced at one 
side into a very short, broadly-triangular point; involucrophorum conspicuously 
pedicelliform, 3-5 mm. long. angular, broadening upwards, and expanded into a 
short, obliquely-evolute limh; involucre very shallowly and unilaterally cupular, trun 
cate, obsoletely bidentate on the side of the neuter flower, of which the areola 
is rather conspicuous, ovate, niche-like, and with sharp edges; the lower spikelets are 
8-10 em. long, and have 8-10 flowers on each side; the others speedily decrease 
in length and number of flowers; the uppermost are 2-3 cm. long and have 6-8 
flowers only, Female flowers ovoid, bluntish; the calyx tubular-cyathiform, very 
shallowly and obsoletely 3-toothed, very minutely striately-veined ; the corolla twice 
as long as the calyx. Neuter flowers very similar to the female, but somewhat smaller. 
All the axial parts of the spadix are covered with a Suc mere rusty-furfuraceous 
indumentum. Fruits unknown. 
HaBrrAT.—Borneo: in Sarawak at Kuching (J. Hewitt in Herb. Kew.). 
OBSERVATIONS.—.AÀ beautiful species, rather closely related to D. acamptostachys, 
from which it differs in the very elongate spadix, and in the spikelets, which have 
the flowers borne on a conspicuous  involucrophorum, whereas this part is short, 
and only slightly protruded beyond its own spathel in D. acamptostachys. 
Prater 109,—Daemonorops floridus Bece. Upper end of a leaf; upper portion of 
a leaf-sheath; an entire female spadix (in two pieces) with not yet open flowers; 
the pedicellar part of this same spadix is attached to the upper end of its leaf- 
sheath: from Hewitt’s typical specimen in Herb, Kew. 
Imperfectly known, doubtful or excluded species, 
DazMoNoRoPs ACICULATUS Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. ii, 176. 
I have not seen specimens of this Daemonorops of the section Cymbospatha, which 
would seem to be closely related to D. imbellis Becc., if not identical with it, on 
account of its spadix furnished with a peduncular part 4 inches long, and an 
ovoid fruit, over an inch long. I do not know, however, of any Daemonorops with 
scales in “8 rows"; perhaps the TUUS means that there are 8 scales in each 
longitudinal row. 
I reproduce here Ridley's description: — 
“ Leaves 4-6 feet long, petiole 6 inches long, day sprinkled with short, sharp 
‘spines on all sides; leaflets narrow linear acuminate, close equidistant, alternate and 
* gub-opposite, 8-10 inches long, $ inch wide, margins, and 3 nerves, and tip, bristly 
* with rather long pale bristles. Spathe thin, fusiform, tapering at the base into a 4 
“inches long peduncle, thickly armed with pale, flat, narrow spines; body of spathe thickly 
“armed with very narrow spines, flat and greenish, 1 to 1j inch long, solitary and 
«ip rows; limb of spathe 8 inches long, 1i inch wide, ending in a nude point 3 
“inches long; inner spathes papery unarmed. Male panicle 6 inches long, dense, 
‘ branches flexuous, hairy. Bracts orbicular, cuspidate, ribbed Calyx tubular, cup- 
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