j(42 annals op t h e noYAi. b o t a n i c garden, c a l c o t t a . [/). Curranii
and more rigid leaflets, and the collector notes tbat the plaufc has a calamoid
stem, but is generally short and erect, 7 feet bigli, densely tufted. Ridley'a
specioien from Fiilo i'iuaug mentioned above agre=33 pretty well with the type
specimens of D. elongatus, only the fruit scales are in 18, not in 15, longitudinal
liidley reduces to D. elongatus Bl. D. Kunstlerii Becc., a quite different ; _
Probably some of the localities attributed by Ridley to D. elongatus belong to
D. Kunstlerii.
P l a t e 57.—Daemonorops elongatus Bl. 'Mai© spadix during the anthesis, and
another not yet expanded, in tlie central part of the plate; female spadis with
gi-ovviiig ovaries; spadis with full gi-owa fruits; the upper part of a leaf-sbeath,
and tho petiole. From a specimen cultivated in the Botauic Garden at Buiteuzorg
(Herb. Beccari).
53. Daemonorops CcESiNn in Philip. Jouru. Sc. ii (1907), 238.
Description.—Scandent and of moderate size. Leaf-sJieathi Leaves
terminating in a not veiy long and slender cirrus, which is very regularly armed
with approximate half-whorls of very sharp confluent claws; petiole
the leaf-raohis (in tho intermediate portion) is slightly convex beieath, where it is
strongly and regularly armed with half-whorls of ó-nate claws and has a very
sharp and spinulous salient angle above and flat-side faces; leaflets numerous,
equidistant, about i cm. apart, green and sub-shining on both surfaces, papyraceous,
very narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate-ensifnnn, broadest not very far above the base
and thence shortly narrowing downwards, gradually acuminate to a subulate and, at
the sides, spinulous tip; on the upper surface the mid-costa is slender and sharp,
spinulous only near its apex, and accompanied on each side by a slender
secondary nerve which is stronger than some other nerves of the same kind and
spinulous; underneath the mid-custa alone is minutely bristly spinulous; transverse
yeiulets very slender and sharp especially on the upper surface; the intenuediats
leaflets 3 3 ^ 0 cm. long, 17-20 mm. broad. Female spadis before flowering very
naiTowly cylindrical and elongate, slightly curved ; primary spathes at first tubular,
very obliquely truncate at the mouth and produced at the apex into a triangular
point, later longitudinally split; the oatermoat spatlie, after flowering, elon,'atdspathulate,
gradually narrowing towards the base into a rather short, flattened, prickly,
pedicellEir part, completely and very densely armed externally with solitary or more or
less seriate and confluent, deflexed, short, unequal spines, whioli have a reddish-brown
tip, and a lighter swollen base; inner spathes prickly only on the back, especially
near their apex, smooth on the margins at the mouth; when in flower or fruit
the female spadix ík thinly rusty-furfuraeoous in every part, about 60 cm. long,
slender, rigid, with 6-7 partial inflorescences; the peduncular part of the spadix is
7 - 8 cm. long, 7-8 mm. bxoad, sUghtly flattened, very slightly enlarged upwards,
armed with deflexed, solitary or confluent and sub-digitate, straight, rather short,
deflesed spines; the m!iin axis (of the spadix) is straight, its lowest (2-3) internodes
D. CurranH'\ beccabi. t h e sPECiEa o f daemonorops. 143
slightly flattened, the others obsoletely angular; secondary and tertiary spathes
inconspicuous; partial inflorescences triangular in outline, the lower, the largest,
11-12 cm. long; the upper shorter, with 5-7 bifarious, regularly alternate, spreading
spikolets on each side; the axis of the partial inflorescences straight, very acutely
3-4-gonous; the lower spikelets, the largest, S-5-4-5 cm. long, with 6 to 9 bifarious
flowers on each side, their axes very acutely angular, and zig-zag sinuous; upper
spikelets shorter, and with fewer flowers; spathels scarious, very shortly annular and
embracing, produced at one side into a triangular spreading acute point; involucro,
phorum shortly but distinctly pedicelliform, 1-2 mm. long, angular, very spreading
or horizontal when bearing the fruit, distinctly callous in its axilla, truncate and
with a very short triangular point at one side at its apex; involucre slightly
raised above the involucro phorum, its limb represented by a very narrow annular rim
round the flat orbicular scar left by the flower: areola of the neuter flower rather
email, concave, niche-like, not callous. Female flowers 6 mm. long when in bud, with
an ovate base and a trigonus apex; the calyx very shallowly cupular with 3 broad
acute teeth ; the corolla 4 times as long as the calyx, parted down almost to the
base into 3 elongately triangular, sharply striately veined segments. Fruiting •perianth
very broadly obconic and therefore not distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit small, spherical,
very shortly and broadly conically beaked, 12 mm. in diameter when quite ripe;
scales in 12-14 longitudinal series, polished, narrowly and sharply grooved along
the centre, exactly rhomboid, with an obtuse tip, straw-yellow with very narrow
almost entire margins. Seei globular, slightly depressed, 10 mm. broad, 8 mm. high
its surface pitted and tubercled.
Habitap.—The Philippines: Palawan, H. M. Curran, February 1906 (No. 3791,
Herb. Manill.); Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, September-Ootobei- 1907,
Mary Strong Clemens (No. 1280 in Herb. Manill.)
Observations.—Ö. Cun-anii is a near ally of Ö. ehmatus Bl., from which it
differs in the leaves having equidistant leaflets; in the leaf-sheaths armed with
slender seriate, very approximate spicular, instead of scattered, laminar spines; in
the rachis being spinulous on tho salient angle; and in the slightly larger fruit.
To D. Curranii I refer the plant collected by Mrs. Mary Strong Clomftns in
Mindanao (Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, September-October 1907\ although endowed
with some peculiaiitios by which it differs from the type of D. Curranii growing
in Palawan. The following are its principal characteristics Leaf-sheaths 2-5 cm. in
diam., armed with irregular rows of stiff bristle-like spiculae, which are 15-20 mm.
long, moro or less united by their bases so as to form a narrow laminar raised
c r e s t ; the mouth of the leaf-sheaths is armed with many, imbricate, very long,
laminar, ascendent, blackish spines; the petiole is rather elongate, subterete-biconvex
being very slightly flattened, armed all round with very »hört ascendent prickles j
rachis also more prickly on the salient angle of the upper surface than in the
type; leaflets numerous, equidistant, 2-3 cm. apart, with the mid-costa, and
2 nerves on eacli side of it, bristly-spinulous; underneath the mid-costa alone
bristly-spinulous. Female spadix with a pedicellar part covered with stiff bristles
which are united by tlieir often swollen bases. Fruit (not quite mature) globose