459 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. CC. Oxleyanus 
the largest, the lower ones, about 50 cm. long, with 8-9 spikelets on each side 
and terminating with a very small slender unarmed caudiculum; the upper 
ones a good deal shorter; secondary spathes papyraceous or submembranous, 
tubular, 2-2°5 cm. long, slightly enlarged above, closely sheathing, unarmed, finely 
striately veined, very obliquely truncate and naked at the mouth, prolonged 
at the summit into a triangular acute point; spikelets vermicular, their axis 
cylindraceous, rigid, slightly flexuous, spreading, inserted just at the mouth of 
their own spathes with a distinct axillary callus, the lower ones of each inflo- 
rescence the largest, up to 18-20 cm. long with 20-22 flowers on each side, the 
upper ones gradually smaller; spathels finely striately veined, shortly tubular, slight- 
ly enlarged above and prolonged at one side into a broadly triangular deflexed acute 
point; involuerophorum very shallow, orbicular, exsert from its own spathel and laterally 
attached to the base of the one above; involucre exactly cupular, rather shallow, 
shining inside, the margin entire; areola of the neuter flower lunate, usually shining and 
callous in the centre. Female flowers about 4 mm. long, remote (1 em. apart on each 
side), bifarious, horizontal; the calyx coriaceous with a flat and polished base not or 
indistinctly striately veined, deeply parted into 3 very broad acute lobes; the corolla 
slightly longer than the calyx, its segments ovate-acute. Fruiting perianth shortly 
pedicelliform. Fruit globular, small, about 1 cm. in diam. topped by a slender 
2 mm. long, conspicuous mucro; scales few, in 12 longitudinal series, each of these 
with 5-6 scales, strongly convex, superficially channelled along the middle, shining, 
straw-coloured with a red-brown marginal line; tip very obtuse; margins erosely 
toothed. Seed irregularly globular, wrinkled; albumen equable; embryo basal? (1 
have not seen perfectly mature seeds.) 
Hasitat.—The Malayan Peninsula at Malacca (Grifith); Singapore, at Bukit Timah, 
(Ridley No. 6283 in Herb. Becc. and No. 10780, male plant, in Herb. Kew); State 
of Johore at Gunong Pulai (Ridley No. 3719, in Herb. Kew); Island of Bangka 
(Teysmann, Miquel). 
OssERVATIONS.—I have identified with C. Ozleyanus Teysm. & Binnend., the 
Rotang Pajare, which was recognised by Griffith as a new and distinct form without 
assigning to it a scientific name.  Griffith's specimens were only portions of the 
leaves of which I have seen a part in the Herbarium at Kew. I have to make 
many remarks regarding the identification of this species, and I will proceed 
chronologically :— 
L—The Rotang Pajare was first mentioned by Griffith in vol. V of the 
Calcutta Journal in 1845; afterwards by the same author in the “Palms of 
British East India”; it was considered by him to be related to €. (Daemonorops) 
angustifolius. | ; 
IL— Martius in the last pages of vol. III of his great work on Palms—pages 
that must have been published in the year 1849-50—proposed the name of 
Daemonorops fasciculatus for the Rotang Pajare of Griffith, agreeing with this author 
as to its similarity with C. angustifolius, which is a typical form of Daemonorops. 
- IIL—H. Wendland in the Enumeration of the Palms in Kerchove de Denterghem’s 
work (1878) not having accepted the genus /aemonorops and not being able to 
