D(Bmonorops.~\ CLXIII. PALMED. (Beocari & Hook, f.) 471 



PENANG, Lewes. PEEAK, alt. 2-3500 ft., King's Collector (2931, 2735, 6306, 

 7849). SINGAPORE, Lobb. 



Stem stout 20-25 ft , scandent ; nodes swollen. Leaves 10-14 ft. ; leaflets 16-20 

 by ^1 in., margins quite smooth, long tips setose ; petiole stout, spines on lower 

 portion often teruate with the central 6-7 in. long and slender but stiff. Spathes 

 all deciduous, upper thinly coriaceous, unarmed. Spadix (geniculate, Griff.) 3ft.; 

 peduncle 6-12 in., flattened, with marginal spines, not 2-edged ; spikes |-| in., 

 spreading, with the flowers in. broad. Male flowers most densely imbricate, 

 horizontal in two series, ^ in. long and narrow ; spathellules quite entire ; 

 calyx shortly cylindric, striate ; corolla terete, four times as long, smooth, not 

 striate, very narrow. Fruit % in. long, shortly pedicelled ; sometimes almost 

 ellipsoid, psile dull yellowish brown; scales with a shallow channel and brown 

 margin. There may be more than one species included here, the fruiting spadices 

 of Nos. 576 and 7849 look very different. No. 576 from Groping Pera'k has 

 the slender fruiting spadix, with distant fruits, as in Griffith's figure. No. 2735 

 from Perak is a male plant and has the mouth of the sheath with needle-shaped spines. 

 No. 2931 from Perak has the very long spipes on the petiole. No. 7849 from Perak 

 has the branches of the fruiting spadix as broad as long with very short stout 

 internodes and stout spikes 4-6 in. long; it most resembles the Penang form. 



**** Outer spathe lanceolate, slenderly 2-keeled, wholly deciduous after 

 flowering. Leaf sheaths armed with isolated or confluent spines, not 

 annular crests. Spadix elongate. 



27. D. longripes, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 329, t. 176, f. v. 2, 3, 

 leaflets equidistant linear-lanceolate or ensiform subulate-acuminate 

 margins and tips bristly 3 costee setulose above or on both surfaces, petiole 

 convex below and armed with long irregular spines, channelled above, with 

 toothed margins, rachis triangular with solitary short dorsal teeth, sheath 

 armed with broad stout flat solitary or seriate spines mixed with bristles, 

 spathes narrowly lanceolate long acuminate unarmed, spadix very long 

 long-peduncled, spikes flexuous, fruit ovoid-oblong shortly stipitate, beak 

 conical. Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 93; Walp. Ann. iii. 478, v. 828. D. 

 strictus, Blume Humph, iii. 19, t. 163 A, B ; Mart. I. c. 326. Miq. I. c. 86; 

 Suppl. 255 ; in Journ. Bot. Neerl. i. 18 ; Walp. I. c. 474, 827. Calamus 

 longipes, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 68 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 78, t. 

 203 A, B (excl. syn. Rumph.). C. strictus, Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 28. 



MALACCA, Fernandez, Muingay, Hervey. DISTBIB. Sumatra, Banoa. 



Leaves with the flagellum about 12 ft.; petiole 2 ft., young floccosely scurfy ; 

 leaflets 12-14 by 1^ in. Spathes long and narrow, thinly coriaceous, nearly or 

 quite unarmed, young scurfy. Male spadix nodding ; peduncle 2 ft., 2-edged, 

 unarmed or with a few marginal spines; branches decompound; spikes J-l in., very 

 slender and zig-zag, spatheilules (or bracts ?) very minute. Flowers i in. long, 

 erecto-patent ; calyx obtusely toothed, quite glabrous, striate ; petals hardly twice as 

 long, not striate. Fruiting spadix large, very broad, much branched ; branches not 

 stout, scurfy; spikes 3-5 in. Fruit 5- in. apart, f in. long; ealyx very 

 shortly pedicelled, broadly campanulate, 3-lobed to the middle lobes appressed 

 to the base of the fruit; scales pale yellow-brown, shining, concolorous, faintly 

 channelled, Seeds oblong; albumen strongly ruminate; embryo basal. Griffith 

 describes Calamus longipes as having equidistant leaflets, his specimens are too 

 imperfect to show this character. In Maingay's specimen they are inequidistant as 

 described by Blume in his D. strictus. As in other species the costaa of the leaflets 

 probably vary much as to being more or less setulose on one or both surfaces. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



Besides enumerating the above more or less imperfectly described species, 



