D. grandis. | BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 59 
externally (Grifith); flowering axis rigid, densely cupressiform, its internodes short, 
thick, swollen from the middle down to the base, with few (4-5) principal 
branches (partial inflorescences) and with a rigid, robust, slightly flexuous axis; 
the intermediate branches, which are the largest, are 10-12 cm. long, with 4-5 
distichous spikelets on each side; the pedicellar part or first internode of the main 
axis is short and thick, about 1 cm. in length; secondary spathes scale-like, devoid 
of an elongate sheathing part, but completely amplectent, membranous, exsuccous, 
extended at one side into a broad triangular, acute or shortly acuminate point; 
spikelets rigid, erecto-patent, slightly flexuous with a conspicuous axillary callus 
and transverse’ rima at their insertion; the lower spikelets, the largest, 5-7 cm. 
long with 5-6 distichous flowers on each side; the others gradually shorter and 
with fewer flowers; spathels similar to the secondary spathes but smaller; involu- 
crophorum short and thick or almost depressed, 2-3 mm. long with a very conspi- 
cuous axillary callus and transverse rima at its axilla, terminating in a very 
shallow, entire, asymmetric limb; involucre very shallowly cupular or pateriform, 
smooth, polished inside, entire or occasionally split by the distension of the fruiting 
perianth; areola of the neuter flower very conspicuous, almost circular, with a 
raised and strongly tumescent border. Fruiting perianth with a flat base, its calyx 
striately veined externally, split down quite to the base into 3 parts; the 
corolla not quite twice as long as the calyx, its segments ovate-lanceolate, striate 
externally. Fruit spherical, very shortly umbonate, 18-19 mm. in diameter; scales 
in 15 longitudinal series, the intermediate ones broader than long (8 mm. broad, 
6 mm. long) yellowish-brown, with a very narrow darker intramarginal line and a 
narrow, light, erosely denticulate margin, rather deeply channelled along the centre, 
and slightly prolonged into an obtuse dark point. Seed irregularly globular, slightly 
deficient or with a flattish surface on one side at its upper part; albumen deeply 
ruminate; embryo basal. 
HaziraT.—' The Malayan Peninsula: at Malacca (G@rifith), found again by Scor- 
techni at Perak (Herb. Beccari.) C. grandis of Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. Beng 
xlii, 2, 1874, 208) from Rutland Island in the Andamans is my JU. 
Kurzianus. Miquel (De Palmis, p. 28) mentions also Sumatra and Borneo as localities 
of D, grandis, but I do not know on what ground. Griffith assigns with doubt 
to D. grandis the Malayan names of “ Rotang Sumanbo” or of ‘“ Rotang Chry," 
but the first is usually applied to large species which produce strong, robust 
canes, fit for stocks of walking canes, and specially to Calamus Scipionum, 
Oxsservations.—Of D. grandis I have seen some fragments of Griffith’s type- 
specimen in the Herbarium at Kew, consisting of a few leaflets, portions of 
the leaf-sheaths, and a very young spadix; but I received from Father 
Scortechini a leafy specimen accompanied by a fruit spadix, parts that exactly 
agree with the corresponding ones of  Griffth's type, and from which I have 
chiefly derived my description. Unhappily that spadix is entirely stripped of 
its fruits. Further in the Herbarium at Kew are preserved some spadices and 
loose spathes referred also to D. grandis, which apparently correspond to the 
figure in the centre of pl. CCX, C. of Griffith’s work, but I am not sure that 
these figures really represent the spadices of D. grandis. Of the three Griffithian 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catcurra Vor. XII. 
