8 6 ANNALS OP THE EOYAL BOTA>'IO GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [¿J. WONTICOLUS.
leaflets and terminating in a slender, not very long cirrus; petiole rather
elongate, 10-25 cm, long, slightly arched, plano-convox, more or less armed on
tho margins and along the ccntre of the dorsum at the base with shortish, weak,
straight or slightly hooked spines, which higher up and on the rachis are transformed
into solitary claws, becoming ternate in the terminal part and finally 5-nate on
the cirrus; the pianiforous part 30-50 cm. long; leaflets not many (15-20 on
each side), sliglitly incquidistant, l'5-3m. apart, narrowly Hnear-Ianceolate, broadest
at or a little below the middlo and thence gradually narrowing below to a rather
acute base and uj)wards to an acuminate and bristly tip, thinly papyraceous, with
the mid-costa acute and one slender nerve on each side of it bristly above ;
beneath, the mid-costa alone more or less bristly throughout ; transverse vcinlets rather
sharp; margins closely bfistly-spinulous especially towards the apex; the largest
leaflets, those a little above the base, 15—18 cm. long, 6-12 mm. broad. Spadices
approximate towards the apex oE tbe plant, but not veiy closely, tbe sheatlis not
being excessively short. Male spadix bafore flowering fusiform, gradually narrow
ii:g into a beak about as long as or shorter than the body, erect, more or
less shortly supported on a rather slender pedicel which is flattened, smooth or slightly
spinuious on the margins, decurrent along the sheath and emevging about the
middle of its sheath ; outermost spathe concave-cyniihiform, 40-50 cm. long including
the beak in large specimens, 15-30 em. in very small ones, not very
acutely two-keeled, armed, usually rather densely, with elongate, very narrowly
laminar, black, scattered or subseriate spines, which point in different directions
but chiefly downwards, those at the base of the beak being the longest (up
to 4-5 cm.) often confluent and subseriate; partial inflorescences 5-6 as usual,
the branchlets 4-5 cm. long and with about ten spikelets ; of these the Io\vest
12-14 mm. long with 3-4 flo^ver8 on each side ; the upper ones slightly shorter
and with fewer flowers; their axis sinuous, slightly scabrid, furfuraceous ; spathels
bracteiform, triangular, acute at one side ; involucre cupular, sub-cymbiform with
an acuTe point on each side, callous at its axilla. lifale flowers linear, slender, 6-7
mm. long, 2 mm, thick, rather acute; the calyx tubular, superficially 3-dentate; the
corolla twice as long as the calyx. Female spadix . . . .
HABITAT.—The Malayan Peninsula: Pulo Penang at Balik Pulan {Ridley Nos.
7900, 7902, 7897 in Herb. Calcutt.;. On the Penang Hill, about halfway up {Griffith),
and on the same hill found agaiu by RUlay in 1896 (^No. 7896 in Herb. Calcutt.—
a very delicate form
According to Ridley (Mat. 1. c.) his No. 7900 belongs to D. angustifolius; No.
7897 to D. calicarpits and No. 7896 really to D. montieolus.
OBSERVATioiiS.—Griffith lias described under the name of Calamus montieolus a plant
from Mount Ophir and another from Pulo Penang; but the two do not seem to me
exactly alike. Fui-ther, three plates in Griffith's work represent D. montieolus, but
these also are evidently referable to two different plants, though apparently forms
of the same species. Plate XXIV-A represents the apex of a. non-cirriferous leaf
but it is difiicnlt to decide to which of the two it belongs. Plate XXIV-B is
so exactly like Ridley's Penang specimens Nos. 7900 and 7896 in the Calcutta
Herbarium, that it appears evident that it represents the plant from Penang
D- Leiaisianus.'] BECCAEI. THE SPECIES OP DAEMONOEOPS, 87
of which Griffith speaks at pp. 97-98. Plate XXIV-C represents two spadices in
fruit, with the outer spathe armed with verj few spines occurring chiefly on the two
acute carinae, while on the outer spathe of the spadix in plate XXIV-B these spines
are very numerous and are scattered irregularly over its entire surface. Now as
Grifliths in the diagnosis of G. montieolus describes the "spatlia extima secus carinas
duaa spinis gracilibus deflexis armata" and as tliis character is more clearly represented
in plate XXIV-C than in the other, I feel almost certain that this last
plate represents the spadices of the type D. montieolus from Jioimt Ophir; unfortunately
the type-specimens of this in Kew and Calcutta Herbaria want the outermost
spathe.
The var. •pinangianus of D. inoniicolus differs from tbe type in the outer spathe
being not very acutely two-keeled, and more densely covered throughout with spines;
in the fewer, broader, less numerous, and less regularly set leaflets, and apparently
in tbe smaller and rounder fruit. This, however, I have seen only in Griffith's
plates.
PI-ATE 29.—Daemonovops montieolus var. pinangianus Becc. Portion of the stem
with a very small spadix and an entire leaf in the upper part of the plate, from
Ridley's No. 7896 in the Calcutta Herbarium; the other two spadices (<?) from
Ridley's No. 7897 in the same Herbarium.
26. DAEMONOHOPS LEWISIANUS Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 327, pi, 175, IV
f. 1—7 and pi. Z xviii; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 89; Walp. Ann.
iii, 476, and v, 827; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 465; Becc.
in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 221 ; Ridley, Mat. Fl, Mai.
Penins. ii, 176 ^partim ?)
Calamus Lewiaiams Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 87, and Palms
Brit, India, 94, pi. CCXII, A., B.; H. Weudl. in Kerch. Palm. 236
(excksyn.) ; Miq. De Palmis Arc. Ind. 28.
DESCRIPTION.—Erect or sub-scandent (?). Sheathed stem about 3 cm. in diameter
LmpskeatU (oi the upper part o£ the plant) rusty-furfuraceous, very slightly gibbous
or transversely plicate under the petiole, armed with flat, rather broadly laminar,
elastic subulate, 2-4 cm. long, brown spines, which are solitary, scattered and not
very crowded or even confluent by their bases and more or less obHquely and not
very closely seriate, with shorter spines between the series of the larger ones; the
mouth almost naked. Oerea very short, truncate. Radical leaves apparently longpotioled
and considerably larger than tbe upper ones; leaflets numerous, rather closely
set, equidistant, broadly linear, long-acuminate, the largest seen by me 15-20 mm.
broad, subconeoiorous on both surfaces, with the mid-costa acute, and one very
slender nerve on each side of it sparsely bristly above; uiulerneath the mid-costa
alone finely and closely bristly from the base to the apex, but apparently the
bristles more or le.8s deciduous with age ; margins rather closely and spreadingly
bristly-oil iatc, especially towards the apex. Upper leaves 'not seen by me., apparently
with tbe petiole broadened at the base, and there armed with shortish, deflexed