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BECCARI. 
DAEMONOROPS Bl. 
Daemonorops Margaritae (Ilance) var. palawanicus Becc. var. nov. 
It is the first and only species of Daemonoro-ps of the group of Cymbospatha to 
be discovered in the Philippine Islands. I have referred it to D. Margarita ?, a 
species indigenous to southern China, from which it differs in the seed, which is 
more or less globular, and obsoletely 3-gonous. and can not be called reniform, as 
that of D. Margaritae is described as being. 
Palawan, near Iwahig, Bur. Sci. 899 Foxworthy, May, 1906. 
Daemonorops ochrolepis Becc. var. radulosus var. nov. 
This differs from the “forma typica” in the petiole, and the first 
portion of the rachis, being densely prickly on both surfaces; the upper 
salient angle of the rachis is also spinulous throughout to the end of 
the pinniferous part. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mauban, For. Bur. 10190 Curran, March, 1908. 
I also refer here a specimen collected at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, 
Mrs. Clemens 898, January, 1907, the fruits globose-ovoid, 15 mm in diameter 
(very immature), and also Loher 7078, male specimen, from the Province of Eizal, 
Luzon, April, 1905. 
Daemonorops Curranii Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 238. 
To this species must be referred an unnumbered specimen collected by Sirs. 
Mary Strong Clemens in Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, September, 1907 ; 
it differs however from the type which was collected by Curran in Palawan 
(For. Bur. 3791), in the leaflets which have 5 bristly nerves above instead of 3, 
and in the pedicellar part of the spadix which is entirely covered with stiff bristles, 
which unite in their basal part to form several callous, subcristate bodies; the 
fruit and the seed, seem also to be more ovoid in the Mindanao than in the 
Palawan plant. 
Daemonorops Clemensianus Becc. sp. nov. 
Scandens, caudicibus vaginatis circiter 2 cm diametro ; vaginae undique 
spinis tenuibus nigrescentibus breviter seriatis obsessis et in ore spinis 
numerosis laminaribus crebre imbricatis, valde elongatis (8-12 cm longis, 
2-4 mm latis) armatae, frondium petiolus circiter 25 cm longus, bicon- 
vexus, circum et ad margines spinis rectis armatus; rhachis supra levis; 
cirrus gracilis; pars pinnifera circiter 1-3 m longa, segmentis numerosis, 
subaequidistantibus 2. 5-3. 5 cm inter se remotis, lineari-ensiformibus, 
supra secus nervos 3 spinulosis, subtus in costa media tantum setis long- 
iuseulis praeditis; segmentis intermediis 40-42 cm longis, 13-15 mm 
latis. Spadix masculus 50-60 cm longus, strictus, parte pedicellari 6-10 
cm longa et dense spiculifera suffultus; spathis primariis in apicem del- 
toideum spiculiferum productis ; spatha extima spiculis fasciculatis plus 
minusve praedita; floribus maseulis circiter 4 mm longis, calyce breviter 
cyathiformi. Spadix foemineus -rigidus, parte- pedicellari spiculis densis 
et basi confluentibus ac callosis praeditus, in plurimas approximatas in- 
florescentias partiales, 10-15 cm longas, divisus; spicis majoribus 5-7 
cm longis, utrinque 7- vel 8-floris; involucrophoro obconico, 3-4 mm longo. 
Fructus majusculi, sphaerici, breviter lateque rostrato mammillati, 22-24 
