466 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Damonorops. 



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 lonsr deflexed flat spines, 

 spadix unarmed scurfy, fruit globose cuspidate. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 90 ; Walp.Ann. iii. 4771, v. 827. Calamus monticolus, G-riff. in Gale. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. v. 90; Palms Brit. Ind. 97, t. 214 A, B, G. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; on Goonong Miring, a spur of Mt. Ophir, alt. 1500-2000 ft., 

 and PENANG HILL, half way up, Griffith. 



Stem about 8 ft. Petiole 10 in. ; leaflets 10-11 by in. Outer spathe very 

 open, 1617 in. long ; beak 9-10 in., flat, sparingly armed except towards the apex. 

 Fruit the size of a marble, tawny; scales channeled and with a dark brown intro- 

 marginal line ; fruiting calyx explanate, lobes broad ; petals twice as long, ovate. 

 Seed with a fleshy covering. Descript. from Griffith. The Penang plant has much 

 coarser spines on the spathe and the fruit is more narrowed inr,o a beak; Beccari 

 doubts its being conspecific with the Malaccan. I have seen only very imperfect 

 specimens. 



12. D. petiolaris, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326 ; slender, scurfy, 

 leaves long-petioled, leaflets very long crowded equidistant very narrowly 

 linear tips spinulose, costas 3 setulose above the median only beneath, mar- 

 gins setulose, petiole armed below with seriate spines above with dorsal 

 hooked spines, sheaths crinitely clothed with long close-set ascending 

 slender seriate spines, outer spathe shortly beaked densely armed with 

 long slender spines, spadix short fusiform, branches tomentose, male calyx 

 cylindric 3-toothed. Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 87; Walp. Ann. iii. 475, v. 

 827. Calamus petiolaris, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 93 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 101, t. 216, f. vii. ; ? Miq. Palm. ArcUp. Ind. 28. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



Stem erect. Leaves 4-5 ft., exclusive of the 5-7 ft. petiole; leaflets 15-17 by 

 j~| in. Spathe 4-5 in., narrowly fusiform, scurfy, beak i-i the length of the body, 

 or longer. Petals narrowly lanceolate. Griffith says that probably two species are 

 included here, differing in the length of the leaves ; one with an unarmed rachis of 

 the leaves, longer more tomentose spadices and longer spikes and a cylindric acutely 

 shortly toothed calyx, but his definition of the two is not very clear. 



13. D. tabacinus, Becc. mss. ; sheaths rachis and petiole of leaf and 

 branches of spadix brown-furfuraceous, leaves long-petioled, leaflets very 

 many equidistant narrowly linear tips spinulose, costse 3 setulose above 

 and on the median beneath, margins setulose, petiole subcylindric and 

 sheath armed with small flat pale spines, outer spathe narrowed into a 

 beak as long as the body or longer, crinitely clothed with long straight 

 slender spines, fruit subglobose pale, beak conical. 



PEKAZ ; King's Collector (2537). 



Stem erect, 2-3 ft. Leaflets 12-14 by f-f in. Spathe 6 in., its beak 3 in. 

 Fruit f in. diam., pale straw-cold., suddenly narrowed at both ends; scales chan- 

 nelled, tips dark-cold. ; fruiting calyx subpedicelliform, lobes broad ; petals twice as 

 long. Distinguished from D. petiolaris by thelong beak of the spathe. 



14. D. calicarpus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326, t. 175, f. vi. ; 

 leaflets equidistant very many linear bristle-pointed, 3 costse above setu- 

 lose median or all beneath, margins setulose, petiole armed with long 

 straight and short hooked spines, sheaths scurfy armed with long slender 

 subseriate flat erect spines, outer spathe moderately beaked, crinite all 

 over with long slender pale bristles, 2nd and 3rd bearded chiefly along 

 the middle, male spadix much branched, margins of pedicels bearded, 



