134 AI:NIIS OP THE EOTAL NOXASIC GASDEN, CALOUTTA, [£). microstachys
sido faces; uuderneath it is at first coaxes and aroaed with remote c.laws while
towards the uppor eud it is flat aud unarmed; leaflets rntlier numerous, equidistant,
not very closely set (3—1 cm. apart on each side), light green on both surfaces
when dry, papyraceous, rigidulous, narrowly lanceolate, broadest below the middle
and tlience narrowing r.owcards tho base, above gradually acuminate into a subulate
bristly tip, slightly indented on the lower margin not far below the apes.; the midcosta
acute and smooth above with one slender nerve on each side stronger than the
other secondary nerves, and bristly spinulous from the middle to the apex; underneath
the mid-costa alone bears several spreading bristles from the middle upwards; the
transverse veinlets are very itumerous, approximate, much interrupted, and give to both
surfaces a finely shagreened appearance; margins acute, bristly-spinulous near the
apes only; the intermediate leaflets are 35-i5 cm. long, 18-2U mm. broad; those
of the base are 22-35 cm. long, 15-16 mm. broad; the upper ones are shorter, less
acuminate and have a few bristles at the apex; the two of the terminal pair are
the shortest, almost obtuse, and quite free at their base. Male spadiz
Female sp^xdix very slender, iO cm. long on the whole (in one specimen) with a very
slender peduncular part which is about T em. long., flattened, 2-3 mm. broad, rustyfurfuraceous,
its edges armed with short spines which point difierent ways; primary
spathes apparently 5 in number, coriaceous, scal?'-fui'£uracaoas externally, glabrous and
striate inside; tho outermost persistent after flowering, elongate, ear-shaped, armed
with a few solitary, straight, spreading spines on the dorsum and with a few similar
spines near tho edges; the second spathe has only a few spines along the centre of
the dorsum near the apex; the other spathes, each of which gradually protrudes beyond
that immediately below, are oxplanate during the anthesis, and soon deciduous, oblong,
obtuse, about 7 c-n. long, 12-18 mm. broad, unarmed; the flowering panicle is small,
vate-thyrsoid, ratlier dense, 10 cm, long '"in one specimen), rusty-furfuraceous in every
part; its main axis is slender, obsoletely angular, striolate, and has 5 erect, small
(•3-4 cm. long) partial inflorescences; the latter with the exception oi the tenninal one
which is much reduccd in size, are 3-4 cm. long, and carry 4-5 distichous spikelets cm
each side; secondary spathes very small, annukr, slightly extended at one side into a
small scale-like limb; the largest apitelets are the lowest of every inflorescence and
are 15-20 mm. long, and have 8-10 alternate unilaterally set flowers in all; the axis
is angular, slightly sinuous and minutely scabrid; spatbels excessively short, annular,
inconspicuously extended at one side into a very small, scale-like, acute limb; involucrophorum
very shortly obconical, rather thick, angular, truncate at the upper end,
where slightly extended at one side into a very small, triangular, acute point;
involucre almost on a level with the involucrophoruoi, completely flat, discoid, orbicular,
edged by an extremely narrow, acute, annular limb; areola of the neuter flower
very small, punctiform. Fruiting peiianth obconical; the calyx short, cupular, with 3
very superficial, apiculate teeth; the corolla at leajt thrice as long as the calyx, ite
1 triangular, strongly veined externally. Fruit
HABITAT.—North. Borneo. On the hills Bruni (Lobb in Herb. Kew.).
OBSERVATIOKS.—Of this species I have seen only a spadix with growing ovaries,
and a portion of a leaf. It belongs evidently to the group of D. Eystrix, though
D. Hystrix'] BECOIRI. THK SPECIES OP DAKM:0^'0E0PS.
it is a non-climber. It is probably the smallest known spccies of
not u case of nanism of D. Si/strix,
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if it is
PLATE 54.—Daemonorops microstachya Becc. From the type specimen in the
Herbarium at Kew*
DAEMONOROPS HYSTKIX Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 205, 2nd edit, and 338,
pi. 176, f. IV, 3-1; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 91; Walp. Ann, iii, 447
and V, 828; Teiisra. Cat. Bog. (1866) 74; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi,
469; Beco, in Hec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 2^6; Eidley Mat. Fl. Mai.
Perdns. ii, 183 (esci, syn.)
Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 71, aTid Palms Brit.
Ind. 80, pi. CCIV, ABC; Miquel De Pahn. Arc. Ind. 28; H. Wendl.
in Kerch. Palm. 236.
Dcemomrops hirsutus Bl. Rumphia, iii, 21 (only as to the leaves) pi. 135
(excl. f. D. E.); and pi. f. D. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 92, and Prodr.
Fi. Sum. 366 and 59o (partly) as in the following citations; Walp.
Ann. iii, 477 and v, 828; Teijsm. Oat, Bog. 1866, 74.
Calamus ¡(sect. Daemonorops) hirsutus Miq. Do Palm. Arc. Ind. 28; H. Wendl.
in Kerch. Palm. 236.
Da^wnorops hirsutus B brevifolia Bl. Rumphia, iii, 21; Miq. ¿1, Ind. Bat. iii
92; Miq. in Jour. Bot. N^erl. i, 19. '
DESCRIPTION.—-Scandent, very variable in size. SkcatJied stem 2-4 cm. in diam
Uat-sheaths gibbous above, at first rusty-furfuraceous, later glabrous, their mouths
usually very conspicuously armed with several erect, at times exceptionally long, (as
much as 20-30 cm.), flat, thinly laminar, broad (5-8 mm. at the base), light-coloured
or spadiceous, straight or slightly sinuous spines, which when very numerous are
obliquely inserted, especially on the anterior side; the spines on the surface of the
sheaths aro shorter than those near the mouth, but of the same type, and are
usually 1-3 cm. long, very thinly laminar, almost foliaceous, fringed at the margins
when young, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, solitary or seriate and occasionally confluent
and transversely seriate, horizontal or deflexed. Ocf^a very short. Leaves usually
1-1*6 m. long in the pinniferous part, at times shorter, terminating in a more
or less elongate cLiu-us; petiole rather elongate (30-45 em, long or at times less),
slightly flattened, equally convex on both surfaces, or, in very robust plants, with a
very obtuse, saHont angle above; its edges obtuse, more or less armed near the base
with straight, long and short, usuaUy 1-4 cm. long, ascendent spines; on the
intermediate portion the spines are shorter and horizontal, and towards the upper
end gradnaUy transformed into claws; on the undersurface the petiole is smooth, •
or slightly armed along the centre near the base with a few straight spines,
and upwards with a few claws, being usually quite smooth in the middle;
sometnnes both surfaces, especially near the edges, are also armed with very sJiort,
erect, straight prickles; the rachis is smooth or remotely spinulous above, is convex
* See also page 324 and plate 101.