D(emonorops.~] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 467 



spikes scurfy, fruit globose tawny. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 87 ; Walp. Ann. 

 iii. 475, v. 827. Calamus calicarpus, Griff", in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 

 92 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 99, t. 215 A, B, C, D, t. 116, f. v. vi. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PERA.Z, Scortechini. 



Stem erect or subscandent, with the sheaths 1 in. diara. Leaves 6-8 ft., upper 

 small, with long flagella ; leaflets 12-13 by -j 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 spadix 6-16 in., much branched ; spikes 

 flexuous, scurfy; calyx subcylindric, 3-toothed ; petals not twice as long. Fern, 

 spadix shorter, 4-8 in., less but more stoutly branched; calyx ovoid, teeth bearded. 

 Fruit cuspidately mammillate, f in. diam., tawny, scales with a dark marginal band, 

 deeply channelled ; fruiting calyx explanate, lobes broad ; petals rather longer. 

 Seed globose ; albumen deeply ruminate ; embryo basilar. Descr. chiefly from. 

 Griffith. Beccari says of it, very difficult to distinguish from petiolaris and monti- 

 colus in the absence of complete specimens of all. 



Sect. IT. Piptospathae. Outer spathe not completely enclosing the 

 inner. Spadix diffusely branched. 



* Spathes at first tubular, then open ; all deciduous or the outer alone 

 more persistent, armed with short stout spines. Spadix narrow and 

 elongate before flowering, then paniculate. 



t Mouth of slieatJi naked or armed with scattered spines pointing 

 variously, fruit resiniferous except D. leptopus. 



15. D- micracantlius, Bccc. mss.; leaflets alternate or distantly 

 subopposite linear-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, costas 3 minutely setulose 

 on both surfaces, as are the margins, petiole very gibbous and transversely 

 puckered at the base slender 2-edged biconvex armed with long rather dis- 

 tant small curved prickles on the back and here and there on the sides and 

 on the rachis, sheath long slender glabrous armed with very short de- 

 ciduous prickles, at length muriculate. Calmus micracanthus, Griff, in 

 Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 62 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 72 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm, iii 339; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 128; Walp. Ann. iii. 489, v. 831 

 (micranthus). 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



The only specimen seen is of a leaf with a cylindric pale sheath a foot long, 

 covered with scattered or subseriate minute tubercles ; a rather Blender petiole, 6 in. 

 long, dilated at the base and gibbous, with small very scattered spines; the rachis 

 more flagelliferous, very slender and smooth ; the leaflets 8-10 by \ in., with very 

 long filiform bristly tips. 



16. D. propinquus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets numerous equidistant linear- 

 lanceolate, costae 3 all sparsely setulose above the median, alone beneath, 

 margins setulose, rachis very stout with large flat solitary straight spines, 

 petiole with stout dorsal and very long scattered lateral flat spines as has 

 the sheath, spathes many imbricating almost woody with obtuse points 

 and recurved margins outer armed with seriate deflexed spines, spadix 

 erect fruiting nodding, fruit globosely ovoid strongly beaked red brown, 

 scales deeply channelled. Calamus Draco, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. v. 65 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 75 (excl. Syn. Roxb.), t. 201 A, B ; Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 175, f. 10, 3-8. 



PENANG, Griffith, Lewes. PEBAK, Scortechini. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 

 Stem stout, erect, at length scandent. Leaflets 12-18 by -f in. ; petiole 

 ^-terete, 1 in. diain. Fruit % in. diam., exuding dragon's-blood copiously, stoutly 



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