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BECCARI. 
forming a pedicel, very broadly obeonic or almost explanate. Fruit 
spherical surmounted by a very short beak, 15 mm. iu diameter: scales 
in 18 longitudinal series, of a reddish straw-yellow color, with a narrow, 
darker intro-marginal line, and scarious finely erosely toothed margins, 
rather convex, broadly and rather deeply channeled and with a triangular 
rather obtuse point. Seed globular, 10-11 mm. in diameter, with a not 
very closely pitted surface; the chalazal fovea indistinct and very 
superficial; albumen ruminate; embryo basal. 
Unisan, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, C. Reyes, October, 1904. 
The type specimen is the terminal part of a fruiting spadix only. The leaves 
which, I suppose, belong to this spadix, are much like those of Calamus palustris, 
to which this species is related, but from which it is distinguished by its perfectly • 
spherical fruit. The leaves mentioned above belong, very probably, to the lower 
part of the stem, as some of them are peripinnate and one terminates with a 
short rudimentary cirrus, the leaflets are not numerous, are very inequidistant, 
approximate in groups of 2 or 3 on each side of the raehis, with long internodes 
between each- group; elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 15-28 cm. long, concavo-convex, 
suddenly contracted into a bristly tip, shining above, paler and dull beneath, 
with 5 tenuous but acute costae above and with numerous sharp, subparallel 
transverse veinlets. 
DAEMONOROPS Blume. 
Daemonorops Curranii Becc. n. sp. (Sect. Piptospatlia) . 
Non alte scandens (?). Vaginae Folia in cirrum gracilem 
solito modo semiverticillatim acileatum abeuntia ; rachide superne spinu- 
losa. Segmenta numerosa aequidistantis, circiter 4 cm. inter se remota, 
auguste lanceolata vel laneeolato-ensiformia ; intermedia 33-40, cm. 
longa, 17-20 mm. lata, aerum pars latior paullo supra basin, in costa me- 
dia prope apicem et secus nervos duo superne spinulosa; subtus in costa 
media t'antum minute spinuloso-setosa. Spadix circiter 60 cm. longus, 
inapertus auguste cylindraceus, parte pedicellari brevi spinosa suffultus. 
Spathae coriaceae, elongato-spatulatae ; inferior extus undique spinis 
brevibus deflexis plus minusve digitato-seriatis armato, superiores in 
dorso prope apicem tantum spinosae. Panicula fructifera elongato- 
oblonga, spicis majoribus 3.5— 4.5 cm. longis, utrinque distice 6-9-floris ; 
earum • axis acute zig-zag sinuosa. Involucrophorum breviter pedicelli- 
forme, 1-2 mm. longum, in axilla callosum apice truncatum. Invo- 
lucrum apice planum orbiculare, limbo angustissimo anulari cintum, 
involucrophorum breviter superans. Florisa neutri areola parva concava 
aedicolaris non tumescens, perianthium fructiferum late obconicum. 
Fructus sphericus breviter conice rostratus 12 mm. diametro, squamis 
per orthostiehas 12-14 ordinatis, stramineis. Semen globosum, leviter 
depressum, tuberculato-alveolatum 8 mm. diametro. 
Apparently scandent and of moderate size. Leaf -sheaths 
Leaves terminated with a not very long and slender cirrus, which is 
very regularly armed with approximate half-whorls of very sharp con- 
