104 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN; CALCUTTA. [D. Loherianus. 
PLATE 40.—Daemonorops lamprolepis Bece. Portion of the stem with a spadix 
before the anthesis; an entire female spadix in flower; portion of the stem with 
& spadix in fruit; an intermediate portion of a leaf, 
36. Darmonorors NIGER Bl. Rumphia, iii, 5; Mart. Hist, Nat. Palm. iii, 330; 
Miquel, Fl. Ind, Bat. iiij 102; Walp. Ann. iii, 480 and v, 829; Becc. 
Malesia, i, 88 and in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 223. 
Calamus niger Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, 203; Pers, Ench. (1805) i, 383; Miq. 
Palm. Arc. Ind. 29; H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm., 237. 
Palmijuncus niger Rumph. Herb. Amb. v, 101, t. 52. 
DzscRrPTION.— Robust, Leaf-sheaths strongly gibbous above, densely clothed except 
at the mouth with weak, spreading, scattered, solitary, elongate, very slender, brittle, 
blackish spines. Leaves terminating in a long clawed cirrrus; petiole robust, as thick 
as a man’s finger, armed on both surfaces with short, straight, ascendent prickles; 
the rachis equally prickly, and towards the apex furnished with digitate claws 
underneath; leaflets numerous, rather remotely equidistant, lanceolate-ensiform, 40-50 
em. long, acuminate, their mid-costa and one nerve on each side of it bristly 
on the upper surface and apparently also on the lower; the margins ciliate. Fruiting 
spadix recurved; the panicle dense, thyrsoid-ovate, on a long and slender, pedicellar, 
unarmed part. Fruit globular or slightly ovoid, reddish-brown when mature, 
(Description from Rumphius.) 
HanarrAT.—In the northern part of the Island of Amboina near the River “ Guru- 
Guru?. Malayan name “Rotang itam" or “R. Tubu”; in Amboinese dialect “Ua 
Mette” or “Ua tehu”. 
| The Rotang produced by this species is, according to Rumphius, of very inferior 
quality, being brittle and difficult to split into regular strips. 
OBSERVAIIONS, — This species is known only from the description and plate of 
Rumphius, It seems, however, to be a very distinct species apparently related to 
D. macropterus and D. lamprolepis, from which it differs chiefly in its rufous mature 
fruit, and in the armature of the sheaths. Rumphius describes the leaflets as 15-19 
inches long and 4 inches (about 10 cm.) broad, so that the breadth corresponds to 
about a fourth of the length, though in the plate it is only about roth; the leaflets 
therefore should not be more than 3-4 cm. broad. The fruit is said to be a little 
larger than that of ''Rottang Bezaar” (D. Calapparius) which is 22 mm. in diam. 
in Rumph’s plate, while that of D. niger is, in the plate, 15 mm, only. 
37. DazwoNogors Lonertanus Becc. sp. n. 
Apparently scandent, and of moderate size. Sheathed stem 2-5 cm. in diameter 
Leaf-sheaths obliquely truncate, entire and smooth at the mouth, which is quite 
devoid of any kind of spines or cilia; armed with irregular oblique series 
of rather small, blackish, flattened, 5-10 mm. long spiculae. Leaves about 1:3 
m, long in the pinniferous part, terminating in a long, rather slender, clawed 
cirrus; petiole about 25 cm. long, 12 mm, broad, 8 mm. thick, strongly biconvex 
