1 7 4 OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GABDSN, CALCDTTA annulatus
The locality of Java given by Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 136) for C. maniaatus
i s apparently erroneous, HS probably is that of Borneo given by Blume for
D. criniius, as it is not likely that a species oi Dcemonorops of this group should be
represented in two rather distant regions with exactly the same characters.
I refer to D. crinitus a specitaeu from Sumatra preserved in the Herbarium at
Buitenzorg (No. 2022) having the label " Oalamm crinitus. Rottan tjentjen. Priaman"
without the name of the collector. This specimen is from a more robust plant than
those described above; it has the nbeathed stem about 2 cm, in diameter, but covered
with the crinigerous collars, and rows of spiculae as in the others; the leaves are
also larger, but none are entire; the petiole is 13 cm. long, 12-13 mm. broad, flat on
the upper surface, convex on the back and with a line of small claws along the
centre, and it is slightly armed on the edges with small prickles; the rachis is flat in
its lower portion, has slightly spiuulous acute edges and narrowly grooved sides, and
towards the upper end has fiat side-faces, and an acute smooth or scantily spinulous
salient angle; the leaflets are numerous, almost equidistant, linear, 30-35 cm. long,
very acuminate, 12 mm. broad, bristly on 3 nerves on the upper surfaca, but only
on the mid-co8t.% on tlie lower. Probably this specimen collected in West Sumatra
represents a local variety of the plant growing i n Palembang which must be considered
as the typical.
PLATO; 71.—Daemonurops crinitus Bl. Upper end of a stem with a very young
spadix; portion of the sheathed stem with an entire spadix from which all the
fruits have fallen. The specimens in Herb. Beccari from a plant cultivated at
Buitenzorg.
67. DAEMONOROPS ANNDLATUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 227.
DESCEIPTIOK.—Scaudent and slender. Sheathed stem 15-16 mm. in diameter; the
internodes rather elongate. Leaf-sheaihs slightly gibbous above, obliquely truncate and
spinous at the mouth, furnished with several (6-7) broad, complete, membranous,
spicuiiferous, deflexed collars, and with 2 - 3 other similar collars, equally large, but
ascendent; these paired collars form between them 2-3 spacious, perfectly horizontal,
annular anb-harbom-ing galleries round the stem immediately below the base of the
petiole; alternating with the double large collars, and half-way between each pair
i s another complete, also perfectly horizontal, spicuiiferous ring; the marginant
spiculae or spines are apparently very brittle, as they have all fallen oft in the
specimen I have esamined. Leaves about OO cm. long in the pinniferous part,
-terminating in a rather long, clawed cirrus; leaflets very conspicuously aggregated
into a few remote groups; petiole very lon^ (54 cm. in one specimen), slightly
flattened-biconvex from Just above its base, its edges obtuse, and armed from
the base upwards with several small claws, smooth on both surfaces, except for
a few small claws along the dorsum, near its upper end; the mchis has,
immediately from the insertion of the lowest leaflets, an acute and smooth salient angle,
with slightly concave side-faces above, while underneath, it is, as usual, armed, first
with solitary, and then with 3-5-nate claws ; leaflets very few, only 19 in c
D. mirabi/ls'j BECCAIU. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOKOPÖ.
1 7 5
3 almost equal, very remote groups, all in ono plane, and not pointing
in different directions, considerably approximate in cach group by thoir bases, papyraceous,
green on both surfaces, elongate-oblanceolate, tapering considerably towards the
base, broadest above the middle, and thence shortly acuminate upwards to a slightly
bristly tip, tricostulate, all nerves bald on both surfaces; margins slightly spinulous
but only near the upper end; the largest leaflets are those of the lowest group, 35-40
cm. long, a cm. broad; those of the terminal group arc shorter (25 cm. long at
most) and narrower (10-12 mm. broad) being broadest about their middle. Floivers
Fruits....
HABITAT.—North Borneo : on tho Lawas lliver {^Burbidge in Herb. Kew )
OBSEEViTIOKS—The only «pBcimen of this speciss seen by mo is an entire leaf
w i t h a portion of the sheathed stem a p p a r e n t l y gathered from a foil grown plant
l a the disposition and shape of the leaflets it mostly resembles B. SaU, from which
i t differs in haying 2-3 pairs of collars, which foi-m, corresponding complete anth
a r b o u r i n g galleries in the upper part of each leaf-sheath, just below the base of the
petiole ; the spines and spiculae r a d i a t i n g from the edges of the coljars are probably
v e r y long and slender, as in the allied species, but none remain on the specimen I
have examined.
PLATE 72.—Daemonorops annulatus
Herb. Kew.
B m . It represents the enlire type specimen
68. DAEHOSOEOPS MIEABILIS Hart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii, 306 (2nd edit.) and 326 pi
Hä, f. ii, b.i Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 9>(; Walp. Ann. iii, 478 and v'
8 2 8 ; Becc. Malesia. ii, 79 and in Ree. Bot, Surv. Ind. ii 236 '
Calamia (?) mmUHs Slatl. 1. c. 213 (Ut edit.); Hiq. Do Palm Arc Ind
2 9 ; Kunth, Eonm. PI iii, 213; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 237.'
DracmpriOH.—Apparently scandent. Steathd ¡Im of middling size, 3-Ö-3 cm in
diameter. U i f - a m t b slightly gibbous above, eaeh farnished with several pairs (5-6-
of very broad, complete, mpmbranous, radiately-striate, decussating collars, all epual
in size, of which each pair contains a gallery quite closed in by the crossing and
interlacing of the long black spiculae which fringe each half pair; these pairs of
collars ate 10-20 mm. apart; interposed between the broad double collars are 2 5
single, membranous, horizontal rings, which are also spicuiiferous, but form no
galleries; snch single rings sarronnd the lower portions "of the iLf-sheaths more
frequently than the upper; the spiculae of all tho collai-s are ctiniform 3-ä cm
long, or at times shorter, rigid, brittle, black with a lighter-colonred base •' the base'
of the petiole is armed on the back with irregular, interrupted row, of pectinate
black-tipped, slender .pines; the petiole is 1Ö mm. broad a few centimetres above
tho mouth of the leaf-sheath, flat on the upper, and convex on the lower snrface
and has a few pectinate and divaricate spines on the edges which are larffer than
those on the back. Other parts unknown.