464 Gem, PALMER, (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Demonorops. 
iin. flexuous. Calyx oblong, shortly 3-toothed. Fem. spadix very stout, pari 
branches ascending ; spikes short. Flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx striate; petals 
i longer. Fruit the size of a large marble. Seed erect, abounding in dragons 
blood; albumen ruminate; embryo basilar.—Descript. chiefly from Griffith Le, 
5. D. hygrophilus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 204, t. 177, LU: 
robust, leaflets very many and narrow equidistant linear tip nd 
margin and 3 coste above bearing long bristles and a few on be 
mid costa beneath, sheath armed with long flat spines, outer spathe 
gradually narrowed into a long beak as long as the body dorsally ? pa 
with broad flat scattered spines and a few longer ones. Mig. F L [nd. Le 
iii. 90; Walp. Aun. iii. 476, v. 827. Calamus hygrophilus, Grif. Pa 
Brit. Ind. 96, t. 213 C. 
Maracca, Fernandez. PERAK, Scortechint. . . thick 
Stem stout, sheaths lj in. diam. Leaflets 12 by X in. ; petiole forming $ stont 
ring around the sheath, armed with scattered spines below and wit ene 
recurved ones above and on the rachis, young rusty woolly. Spadiv nearly 2» 
Outer spathe 2-keeled, inner unarmed.—Descript. from Griffith. I have see 
specimen. J.D.H. 
6. D. angustifolius, Murt. Hist. Nut. Palm. iii, 3295 leaves shorty 
petioled, leaflets very many narrow and close set equidistant narr d 
linear-lanceolate tip filiform, costze 3 all and margins setulose or We hi 
median only beneath, bristles very long, rachis $-terete armed with 8 n Ren 
and recurved trifid claws, petiole with small scattered flat spines? rnm 
armed with scattered flat «pines, outer spathe narrow long-beaked à 89; 
like the sheaths, spadix thyrsiform scurfy. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Te, 
Walp. Aun. iii. 476, v. 827. ` Caiamus angustifolius, Griff. m Calc. 
Nat. Hist. v. 89; Palms Brit. Ind. 95, t. 213 A, B. 
Mavacca, Griffith. "n iole 
Scandent. Leaves 5-5} ft., flagelliferous; leaflets 8-10 by 3-3 mi p 
8-4in. Outer spathe about LA in. long, the beak half its length, flat ; . 
sparsely spinous. Male spadiz with a slender sparingly armed peduncle; , calyx 
crowded, erect; spikes 1 in., flexuous, 8-10-fld.; flowers small, Oph arth who 
cylindiic-oblong, teeth small; petals thrice as long.— Descript. from Gi he dis- 
describes it as in all respects a very distinct species, but I do not see how ouly of 
tinguishes it by his description from D. hygrophilus. I have seen „leaves a closely 
which the flat spines of the leaf aud brown scurfy sheath are erect, white, an 
appressed ; the petiole is concave above at the base. J. D.H. ` 
7. D. intermedius, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 377, t. 175, phos 
leaves long-petioled, leaflets opposite or scattered linear-lanceolate p o 
nate, margins and 3-5 costs; on both surfaces more or less stoë) F a 
armed with scattered and flattened spines, sheath with seriate biac long 
spines, outer spathe ovoid very long and stoutly beaked, 1t3 pn : 
slender deflexed, beak longer than the body, flowers and fruit 37 alp 
grandis, but scales tipped with black. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. n. 88; Nat. 
Ann. ii. 476, v. 827. Calamus intermedius, Griff. in Cale. Journ. 
Hist. v. 86; Palms Brit. Ind. 93, t. 211 A, B. 
Maracca, Fernandez. PERAK, Scortechint, King’s Collector (7135). in,, mem 
Stem 15-20 ft., $ in. diam, Leaves 4-6 ft. ; leaflets 18-20 by 1-3 ee ringly 
branous, dark green, median costa stout lateral very slender ; rachis kierch "S adi 
armed; petiole 1 ft. Outer spadiw 18 in., beak twice as long as the al g yellows 
thyrsiiorm. Fruit 3 in. diam., suddenly contracted into a narrow beak ; senteay 
obscurely channelled ; fruiting calyx not pedicelliforiu, broadly 3-lobed ; petä 
