4G4 OLXIII. PALMEJB. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Dcemonorops. 



% in., flexuous. Calyx oblong 1 , shortly 3-toothed. Fern, spadix very stout, scurfy, 

 branches ascending; spikes short. Flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx striate ; petals 

 $ longer. Fruit the size of a large marble. Seed erect, abounding in dragons' 

 blood; albumen ruminate; embryo basilar.- Descript. chiefly from Griffith I.e. 



5. D. hygrophilus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 204, t. 177, . 11 ; 

 robust, leaflets very many and narrow equidistant linear tip filiferons, 

 margin and 3 costse above bearing long bristles and a few on the 

 mid costa beneath, sheath armed with long flat spines, outer spathe 

 gradually narrowed into a long beak as long as the body dorsally armed 

 with broad flat scattered spines and a few longer ones. Miqf. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 90; Walp. Ann. iii. 476, v. 827. Calamus hygrophilus, Griff. Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 96, t. 213 0. 



MALACCA, Fernandez. PKRAK, Scortechini. 



Stem stout, sheaths 1 in. diam. Leaflets 12 by ^ in. ; petiole forming a thick 

 ring around the sheath, armed with scattered spines below and with stout 

 recurved ones above and on the rachis, young rusty woolly. Spadix nearly 2 ft. 

 Outer spatke 2-keeled, inner unarmed. Descript. from Griffith. I have seen no 

 specimen. J.D.H. 



6. D. ang-ustifolius, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 329 ; leaves shortly 

 petioled, leaflets very many narrow and close set equidistant narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate tip filiform, costae 3 all and margins setulose or with the 

 median only beneath, bristles very long, rachis ^-terete armed with straight 

 and recurved trifid claws, petiole with small scattered flat spines, sheath 

 armed with scattered flat spines, outer spathe narrow long-beaked armed 

 like the sheaths, spadix thyrsiform scurfy. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 89 ; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 476, v. 827. Calamus angustifolius, Griff, in Cole. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. v. 89 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 95, t. 213 A, B. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



Scandent. Leaves 5-5i ft., flagelliferous ; leaflets 8-10 by 5 in. ; petiole 

 34 in. Outer spathe about 14 in. long, the beak halt' its length, flat; 2nd spathe 

 sparsely spinous. Male spadix with a slender sparingly armed peduncle; branches 

 crowded, erect; spikes 1 in., flexuous, 8-10-fld. ;. flowers small, oblique; calyx 

 cylindiic-oblong, teeth small; petals thrice as long. Descript. from Griffith, who 

 describes it as in all respects a very distinct species, but I do not see how he dis- 

 tinguishes it by his description from D. hygmphllus. I have seen leaves only of 

 which the flat spines of the leaf and brown scurfy sheath are erect, white, 'and closely 

 appressed ; the petiole is concave above at the base. J.D.H. 



7. D. intermedium, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 377, t. 175, f. viii. ; 

 leaves long-petioled, leaflets opposite or scattered linear-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, margins and 3-5 costae on both surfaces more or less setulose, petiole 

 armed with scattered and flattened spines, sheath with seriate black flat 

 spines, outer spathe ovoid very long and stoutly beaked, its spines long 

 slender deflexed, beak longer than the body, flowers and fruit as in D. 

 grandis, but scales tipped with black. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 88 ; Walp. 

 Ann. iii. 476, v. 827. Calamus intermedius, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. v. 86 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 93, t. 211 A, B. 



MALACCA, Fernandez. PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector (7135). 



Stem 15-20 ft., f in. diam. Leaves 4-6 ft. ; leaflets 18-20 by 1-1 in., mem- 

 branous, dark green, median costa stout lateral very slender ; rachis ^-terete, sparingly 

 armed ; petiole 1 ft. Outer spadix 18 in., beak twice as long as the body. Spadix 

 thyrsitorm. Fruit f in. diam., suddenly contracted into a narrow beak; scalesyellow, 

 obscurely channelled; fruiting calyx not pedicelliform, broadly 3-lobed ; petals much 



