94 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (D, calicarpus. 
outer spathe in one specimen 47 cm. long, including the beak, the beak itself spinous 
only at its base and about 27 cm. long; the flowering panicle densely thyrsoid-ovoid 
with 5-6 partial inflorescences; the latter rather broad, 7 em. long, with rather 
spreading flowers and carrying about 10 branchlets, each with 5-6 spikelets on 
either side; spikelets densely rusty-furfuraceous, small, the largest—the lowest of every 
branchlet—about 1 cm. long, with 3-4 flowers on either side; secondary and tertiary 
spathes elongate-triangular, acuminate; spathels bracteiform, triangular, acute, about 
as long as the involucre; the latter comparatively large, cupular, bidenticulate, frequently 
subeymbiform with an acute tooth on each side. Male flowers oblong, obscurely 
trigonous, slightly narrowing towards the apex, but obtuse, 5-6 mm. long, 2 mm. 
thick, the calyx tubular-cylindraceous, superficially 3-dentate; the corolla twice as 
long as the calyx. Female spadiz short and dense, the partial infloresconces very 
approximate, with very short and depauperate spikelets, that bear 2-3 flowers only, or 
are reduced even to a single flower; the axial’ parts very short and approximate and 
densely rusty-furfuraceous; spathels with a comparatively large obliquely evolute limb; 
involuerophorum obliquely obconical or sub-infundibuliform with a very short pedicellar 
part, extended at one side into a very broad triangular acute point, which slightly 
surpasses its spathel; involucre rather deeply cupular, truncate, slightly emerging 
from the involucrophorum; areola of the neuter flower distinct, suborbicular, with a 
semi-circular swollen border on its upper part. Fruiting perianth not quite explanate, 
broadly obconical; the calyx very strongly striate, pluri-costulate; the corolla twice as 
long as the calyx. Fruit (when not quite mature) globose-ovoid, conically beaked and 
crowned with the rather elongate, subulate stigmas, 13 mm. in diam.; scales in 15-16 
longitudinal series, very glossy, straw-yellowish, slightly and broadly channelled 
along the middle, with lighter margins and an indistinct and narrow intramarginal 
line; tip very obtuse, dark-spotted. Seed not seen when quite mature. 
Hasrrat.—The Malayan Peninsula, at Larut in the district of Perak (King’s 
collector No, 2537 in Herb. Calcutt.). 
OssERVATIONS.—It is allied to D. petiolaris, but it appears quite distinct from that 
by the unopened spadix being more ventricose and suddenly narrowing into a beak 
longer, or at least, as long as the body, and by the very dark tobacco-coloured 
scurf with which the plant is covered in almost every part. 
Piare 33.—Daemonorops tabacinus Bece. The type specimens No. 2537 in the 
Calcutta Herbarium. 
30. Darmonorops CALICARPUS Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 326, pl. 175, f. vi, 
and pl Z xviii f. vii; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 87; Walp. Ann. iii, 475 
and v, 827; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 466; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. 
Ind. ii, 222; Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. ii, 174 (excl. syn.). 
Calamus calicarpus Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, 92, and Palms 
Brit. Ind. 99, pl. CCXV, A. B. C. D. and pl. CCXVI, f. vi; H. Wendl. 
in Kerch, Palm. 235. 
Description.—Erect or subscandent, rather slender. Sheathed stem 2°5-3 cm. in 
diameter, the internodes short. Leaf-sheaths rusty furfuraceous, those of the lower 
part of the plant not gibbous above and more or less open on the ventral aspect 
