Demonorops.] ^ crxim. PatMEx, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 467 
spikes scurfy, fruit globose. tawny. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 87; Walp. Ann. 
m. 475, v. 827. Calamus calicarpus, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 
92; Palms Brit. Ind. 99, t. 215 A, B, C, D, t. 116, f. v. vi. 
Matacca, Grifith. PERAK, Scortechini. 
Stem erect or subscandent, with the sheaths l in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft., upper 
small, with long flagella ; leaflets 12-13 by 3-2 in.; petiole 1 ft., base not gibbous 
or puckered. Outer spathe 12-16 in., spines and hairs 1-1} in. long ; beak 2-3 in., 
naked or bristly at the base only. Male spadige 6-16 in., much branched; spikes 
*xuous, scurfy ; calyx subcylindric, 3-toothed; petals not twice as long. Fem. 
spadig shorter, 4-8 in., less but more stoutly branched; calyx ovoid, teeth bearded. 
ruit cuspidately mammillate, $ in. diam., tawny, scales with a dark marginal band, 
*eply channelled; fruiting ealyx explanate, lobes broad; petals rather longer. 
ed globose; albumen deeply ruminate; embryo basilar.— Descr. chiefly from 
riffith, Beccari says of it, very difficult to distinguish from petiolaris and monti- 
colus in the absence of complete specimens of all. 
. Sect. IL Piptospathe. Outer spathe not completely enclosing the 
mner, Spadizx diffusely branched. 
* Spathes at first tubular, then open ; all deciduous or the outer alone 
More persistent, armed with short stout spines. Spadix narrow and 
eongate before flowering, then paniculate. 
T Mouth, of sheath naked or armed with scattered spines pointing 
variously, Fruit resiniferous except D. leptopus. 
15. D. micracanthus, Becc. mss.; leaflets alternate or distantly 
subopposite linear-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, costo 3 minutely setulose 
both surfaces, as are the margins, petiole very gibbous and transversely 
Puckered at the base slender 2-edged biconvex armed with long rather dis- 
nt small curved prickles on the back and here and there on the sides and 
n the rachis, sheath long slender glabrous armed with very short de- 
nduons prickles, at length muriculate. Calmus micracanthus, Griff. QU 
^ Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 62 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 72; Mart. Hist. Nat. 
in 339; Mig. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 128; Walp. Ann. iii, 489, v. 831 
micranthus), 
Matacca, Grifith 
e only spect seen is of a leaf with a cylindric pale sheath a foot Jong, 
lono a: with scattered or subseriate minute tubercles ; a rather slender petio e, 6 i 
me dilated at the base and gibbous, with small very scattered spines ; the rachis 
H re flagelliferons, very slender and smooth; the leaflets 8-10 by 34 in., with very 
8 filiform bristly tips. 
16. D. Propinguus, Bece. mss.; leaflets numerous equidistant linear- 
re: costæ 3 all sparsely setulose above the median alone beneath, 
seul? setulose, rachis very stout with large flat solitary straight spines, 
the Ge with stout dorsal and very long scattered lateral flat spines as has 
and eath, spathes many imbricating almost woody with obtuse points 
erect freer’ margins outer armed with seriate deflexed spines, spadix 
sales tating nodding, fruit globosely ovoid strongly beaked red brown, 
Hist deeply channelled. Calamus Draco, Grif. in Cale. Journ. Par 
Hist Wyo? 3 Palms Brit, Ind. 75 (ezcl. Syn. Rozb.) t. 201 A, B; Mart. 
wë at. Palm, iii, 17 5, f. 10, 3-8. 
XG, Gri th, Lewes. ERAK, Scortechini, —DisTRIB. Suma ra. . 
tice rat, crete, leant scandent. Leaflets 12-18 by 4-3 in. 5 petiole 
© m. diam. Fruit 2 in. diam., exuding dragon’s-blood copiously, stoutly 
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