466 OLXII PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Demonorops. 
margin bristly, rachis unarmed, petiole armed with stout hooked spines, 
sheaths scurfy armed with long flat black deflexed seriate spines, outer 
spathe long-beaked dorsally armed with weak long deflexed flat spines, 
spadix unarmed scurfy, fruit globose cuspidate. Mig. FT. Ind. Bat. m. 
90; Walp. Ann. iii. 4771, v. 827. Calamus monticolus, Griff. in Cale. Journ. 
Nat. Hist. v.90; Palms Brit. Ind. 97, t. 214 A, B, C. 
MALAY PENINSULA; on Goonong Miring, a spur of Mt. Ophir, alt. 1500-2000 ft., 
and Penane HILL, half way up, Griffith. 
Stem about 8 ft. Petiole 10 in.; leaflets 10-11 by à in. Outer spathe very 
open, 16-17 in. long; beak 9-10 in., flat, sparingly armed except towards the apex. 
Fruit the size of a marble, tawny; scales channeiled and with a dark brown pe 
marginal line; fruiting calyx explanate, lobes broad; petals twice as long, rch 
Seed with a fleshy covering.—Descript. from Griffith, The Penang plant wi m "n 
coarser spines on the spathe and the fruit is more narrowed into a beak ; err 
doubts its being conspecific with the Malaccan. I have seen only very mp 
specimens. 
12. D. petiolaris, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326; slender, gcuriy, 
leaves long-petioled, leaflets very long crowded equidistant very narrow f 
linear tips spinulose, costæ 3 setulose above the median only beneath, wal 
gins setulose, petiole armed below with seriate spines above with 1 he 
hooked spines, sheaths crinitely clothed with long close-set ascent g 
slender seriate spines, outer spathe shortly beaked densely arme lyx 
long slender spines, spadix short fusiform, branches tomentose, mà ore d 
cylindric 3-toothed. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 87; Walp. Ann. n. 5 De 
827. Calamus petiolaris, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 93; 4% 
Brit. Ind. 101, t. 216, £. vii.; ? Mig. Palm. Archip. Ind. 28. 
MALacoa, Griffith. l 
Stem erect. Dance 4-5 ft., exclusive of the 5-7 ft. petiole; leaflets ae 
3-3 in. Spathe 4-5 in., narrowly fusiform, scurfy, beak }—} the length of t de 
or longer. Petals narrowly lanceolate.—Griffith says that probably two TU A of 
included here, differing in the length of the leaves ; one with an unarmed D utely 
the leaves, longer more tomentose spadices and longer spikes and a cylindric a 
shortly toothed calyx, but his definition of the two is not very clear. 
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13. D. tabacinus, Becc. mss. ; sheaths rachis and petiole of m f lon 
branches of spadix brown-furfuraceous, leaves long-petioled, leafle ^ 
many equidistant narrowly linear tips spinulose, costa 3 sein. an 
and on the median beneath, margins setulose, petiole subcylin into 3 
sheath armed with small flat pale spines, outer spathe narrowe traight 
beak as long as the body or longer, crinitely clothed with long $ 
slender spines, fruit subglobose pale, beak conical. 
PERAK ; King’s Collector (2537). "P 
Stem erect, 2-3 ft. Leaflets 12-14 by 1-3 in. Spathe 6 in. its 
Fruit $ in. diam., pale straw-cold., suddenly narrowed at both ends; 8° twice 3 
nelled, tips dark-cold. ; fruiting calyx subpedicelliform, lobes broad ; petals 
long.— Distinguished from D. petiolaris by the-long beak of the spathe. 
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14. D. calicarpus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326, t. ^ 
leaflets equidistant very many linear bristle-pointed, 3 costæ P^ long 
lose median or all beneath, margins setulose, petiole armed 7 slender 
straight and short hooked spines, sheaths scurfy armed with long, i all 
subseriate flat erect spines, outer spathe moderately beaked, ¢ 4 along 
over with long slender pale bristles, 2nd and 3rd bearded che Ze 
the middle, male spadix much branched, margins of pe cels 
