96 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCULTA. (D. ursinus. 
flowers elongate-oblong; the calyx campanulate with 3 short teeth that are furnished 
with a brush of rusty furfuraceous filaments at the apex; corolla about twice as long as 
the calyx. Female spadiz (when not enveloped by the spathes) short, usually 15-20 
em. in length, but sometimes, especially in the higher part of the plant, not more than 
8-12 cm. only; the joints of the main axis stout, short and tumescent in their basal 
part; partial inflorescences very short, 5-6 cm. long and with only 2-4 alternate 
spikelets on each side; secondary spathes bracteiform, amplectent, acuminate, very 
finely veined; spikelets short, their axis thick, angular, zig-zag sinuous, furfuraceous 
when young, later glabrous, the joints very short; spathels bracteiform, triangular, 
acuminate, about as long as their respective involucrophora; the latter obconical, thick, 
angular, 3-4 mm. long, with a distinct axillary callus, a deep transverse fovea 
and an oblique subspathaceous and unilaterally acute limb; involucre cupular, 
truncate, usually asymmetric or slightly extended on the side of the neuter flower, 
slightly exserted from the involucrophorum; areola of the neuter flower conspicuous, 
with a very distinct, tumescent, semicircular upper margin. Neuter flowers flattened, 
4 mm. long, very similar to the male ones. Female flowers about 5 mm. long and 
3 mm. thick; the calyx, suburceolate, striately veined, superficially 3-toothed, teeth 
- surmounted by a brush of rusty filaments; the corolla not quite twice as long as 
the calyx, divided down almost to the base into 3 ovate-lanceolate, subacute, and 
indistinctly striate segments; staminal urceolum almost as long as the calyx, crowned 
by 6 very short teeth; anthers small, sagittate. Fruiting perian!à almost explanate, 
Fruiting spadix densely and broadly panicled. Frust—when quite mature—spherie, 
suddenly conically and acutely beaked, 18-20 mm. in diam., ovoid when young; 
scales in 18 series, rather dull, of a light brown or tawny colour, not deeply 
chanelled along the centre with a narrow darker, sometimes indistinct, intramar- 
ginal line, the margin lighter and not very distinctly erosely toothed, the apex 
obtuse. Seed globular, very slightly flattened, albumen white, ruminate; embryo 
basal. 
Hasrrar.— The Malayan Peninsula (G@rifith). Found again in the district of Perak 
by Father Scortechini No. 320° in Herb. Beccari; and at Lumut, by Sir G. King’s 
collector No. 7899 in Herb. Calcutt. 
According to Griffith the main plant receives the Malay name of “ Rotang 
chochoor minia" and the female one that of “R. chochoor” only. Scortechini gives 
the name of “R. dudu” which means the “sitting (not climbing) Rotang”. 
OssERvATIONS,—Closely related to D. petiolaris, and like that, has the radical leaves 
much larger than the upper ones, but distinguishable by the leaflets being not 
distinctly 3-costulate; by the outer spathe being covered with innumerable, seriate, 
long, bristly or criniform, usually crisp or undulate spiculae, and by the leaf-sheath 
bearing numerous approximate series of long confluent delicate spines. 
PLATE 34.—Daemonorops calicarpus Mart. From Scortechini’s No, 520° in Herb. 
Beccari. 
31. DazMoNoRoPs URSINUS Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 22. 
Description.—Scandent, slender. Sheathed stem 15-18 mm, in diam. Leaf-sheaths 
not or very slightly gibbous above, entirely and irregularly covered with very long 
