^ J G AKNAL3 OF T H E E O S A L B O T A N I C GARDEN, OALOUTTA- [^D. GRACITIPES •
w i t h only 4- 0 flower» in all; their axes are thickisli, strongly sinnoM, acutely
S-gonous; the spatbels have a short annular limb extendfid at one side into a very
broad, yet short, acute p o i n t ; involnorophorum short and lliioli, obconio, mote or less
angular, extended at t h e upper end on one side into a triangular acute p o i n t ; involucre
s l i g h t l y raised above the involuorophorum by a thick base, very shallowly cupulat
or w i t h the broad, flat, orbicular floral disc bordered by a short, annnlar, truncate
l i m b ; areola of the neuter flower slightly concave, niche-like, the scar indistinct.
FemaU fowtrs conic, acute, with a flat base, 6-7 mm. long; the calyx very short,
subcnpular, truncate, with 3 very superficial apiculate lobes, rnsty-furfuraceous, not
or obsoletely veined; the corolla thrice as long as the calyx, parted almost to the
base into 3 triangular acuminate segments. ímiting-f,rú.«a quite explanato. Fnit
broadly ovoid, or . u b - p y r i f o r m , with a rounded base and a regularly conical and r a t h er
a c u t e top; it is 2 ; i - 2 i mm. long, 19-20 mm. broad, crowned by the small recurved
stigmas- 'scales in 15 longitudinal series, regularly rhomboid, not prodirced at
t h e point broader than long, narr.,wly and simrply grooved along the centre, yellowish
or nmber-brown, tinged red very sUghtly with a scanty resinous secretion,
globular-ovoid, slightly conical at its obtuse upper end, conspienously gibbous on
broad, 12-13
near Kuching
t h i c k ; embryo
in Sarawak, Bseaari P. B.
a n d D. MotUyi, but it
want the primary
t h e raphal side, 16 mm. long, 1 3 - U mm
HABITAT.—Borneo, on Mount Mattang
No. 1931.
OBSESVAITONS.—This species is r e l a t e d to D.
has equidistant not geminate leaflets. My specimens
which are all very soon deciduous, bat apparently must be short and similar to
those of the two species mentioned. The Dragon's blood secretion on the fruits is
v e r y scanty.
P1.ATE 47.—Daemouorops mattanensis Been. An intermediate portion of a leaf
(under-surJace); portion of a sheathed stem; one spadix with young, and another with
full-grown fruits. From P. B. No. 1931 in Herb. Beccari.
44. DAEMONOBOPS GEACILIPES Becc, in Rec. Bet. Surv. Ind. ii, 325.
Cdmrns (sect. Daetmmropi) gracttifei Miq. de Palm. Are. Ind. 28; H.
Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 236.
Dammorofi accedem vai'. « trmpatha Bl. Ilnmphia, iii, 13, pi. 133 0 ;
Miq. in Journ. de Bet. Niierl. i
Daemomrops lonppes (not of Mart.)
(1860), and in Journ. de Hot.
DESCEIPTION.—Not acandent, erect, 1-5-2
1 5 - 1 8 mm. in diain., and 3 cm.
of the radical leaves; naked eanes
rusty-brown furfuraceous scurf,
ampleetent, split and open
appendages at their months;
19 and Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 94.
Miq. Prodr. Fl. Sum., 255 and 592
Néerl. 18.
at the
8-10
m. high. Sheathed stem in its upper part
base, where it is covered by the bases
1. in diam. Leaf-sheaths covered with a
deeply striate longitudinally, the lower ones
on the ventral side and with short stipuliform
_ those of the upper part of the plant, tubulato
X d n ? a ™ no"t or only very slightly gibbons above, more or less obliquely truncate
unarmed and non-ocreate at the mouth, sparingly armed with scattered or snbseriato
D. gncilipes.'] MCOASI. THE s l E c l i a o r DAEMONOSOPS.
leiid-brown, flat, 1-2 cm. long, spreading or defloxed spines; the radical
leaves have a few sub-radiate-digitato leaflets borne on, at times a very long
(80 cm) snbterete or obsoletely angular and superficially grooved petiole; the
intermediate leaves are pinnate but non-cirriferous, 1-1-2 m. long m the p.nmferons
part, with a petiole as much as 1 m. in length and sparingly pnckly; the
leaflets are 'numerons, sube,»¡distant, 5-7 cm. apart; only the leaves of the upper
s n a d i c i - e r o u . part of the plant terminate in a slender clawed cirrus; m the upper
l e a , e s the leaflets are more distinctly inoquidistant and often m pair, on each
side of the l a c h i s ; the petiole is 30-40 cm. long-, somewhat flattened, plano-convex
at the base, otherwise biconvex with acnte edges, armed with straight, elongate,
. n r o a d i n g spines on the edges, especially near the base, beneath smooth,
with only a few straight defleied prickles along the centre of tho dorsum;
r a c h i . armed beneath a. usual with small sohtary claws which become ternate near
t h e upper end and S-nate-haU-whorled on the cirrus; on the upper surface the raehis
obtnselv convex at first and bifaced from the middle upwards with a very acute,
^ --- • . n ensiform, broadest a little below the middle.
salient non-prickly _ ,
and thenee gl-adually narro iving towards the
and gradually acuminate to a
r a t h e r fine bristly tip, thinly papyraceous,
on both surfaces, with the
mid-costa acnte on the upper
a n d bristly-spinulouB but only near the apex
or else quite smooth; beneath it
more or less bristly from 4he middle upwards;
the secondary nerves
slender but sharp, bold on both surfaces, yet someof
the mid-costa, though not stronger than the others.
times one on each -- . -
L voi-v d a r i n g l y spiuulons on the upper surface; transverse vemlets excessively
numerous and mhr.te, giving under a lens a f a i u t ^ granular appearance to
t h e upper surface; margin, very minutely, remotely and .pp.-es.edly spmulous; the
lower L r g i n on the nppe, surface is often distinctly edged by a very narrow glossy
• • the largest leaflets of the intermediate leaves ate 40-60 cm. long, and 2-0-3
less acuminate than those of the terminal leaves which are
long and 2 cm. broad). Spadiaes maU and teinaU¡
and are
also smaller (35-40
before flowering
almost similar, cylindraceous-fusiform, as thick as the little
Boger erect," nodding, or at times recurved, borne on a pedicellar part which varies
f r om 3 to 12 cm in length and is slender, flattened and smooth, or has edges armed
with solitary straight spines; spalhes thickly coriaceous, finely rusty-furfuraceons
e x t e r n a l l y glabrous inside; tho inner apathes slightly longer than the outermost,
and all 'very soon deciduous; the outermost are, before flowering, split on tho ventral
side and cornet-shaped, then open, more or less completely flat, or with margins
revolnte, 10-15 cm. long, oblanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, shortly and not very
acuminate at the apex, feebly armed exletnally with two lines of small,
ascendent spines. Femde tpadix has a rather short panicle, usually 15-20 cm. or
at most 3 - cm. long, covered in every part with a more or less persistent, thin,
rnsty-furfuraceous indumentum; its main axis is rather slender, slightly but unevenly
flattened; the internodes are ? - 5 em. long; partial inflorescences
5 - 6 , sHghtly
callous at their insertion, small, the largest—the lowest—6-7
g, with
5 - 6 spikelots in all; secondary spathes very small, scale-like, acute or acuminate
on one side; spiltelets spreading after flowering, and slightly callous at their axilla,
short and thick ; the largest 2-5-3 cm. long with ouly 4-6 flowers in all;
their axes acutely trigonous and sinuous; spathels with a short annular- limb,