D. Draco.] BECCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS, 107. 
long, and 2:5 em. broad, have on their upper surface a few black bristles on a 
slender nerve on each side of the mid-costa, and still fewer on this latter; 
underreath the bristles are rather conspicuous and numerous on 3 nerves, especially 
from the middle upwards. Those leaflets of which Blume writes “trinervia, nervis supra ` 
argute prominentibus, praesertim in facie adversa et marginis instar setulosis, inter 
hos nervos primarios aliis tenuioribus semipellucidis distincta" correspond to those 
which I consider to pelong either to D. melanochaetes, or to D. palembanicus. I 
therefore believe that in Blume’s description of D. Draco the leaflets are those of 
one of the above mentioned species, while the description of the leaf-sheaths may 
very well apply to the leaf-sheaths of D. ruber, but not to those of. the true 
D. Draco. 
Among the fruits considered by Blume as those of D. Draco there are in the 
Leyden Herbarium several from different sources, apparently belonging to more than 
one species, and presenting noteworthy differences amongst themselves, especially in 
the shapes of their seeds. Some of these fruits with a seed broader than long 
seem, to me, to belong to D. ruber (C. ruber Reinw.;; the seed of others much 
resembles that of D. Draconcellus, being  flattish on the raphal side, but they 
may possibly belong to the true D. Draco Willd. A fruit of this kind is 
represented by Martius in plate 175, f. x 1, of which probably the figures 
x 6, 8 represent the seed, this being oblong, while that of f. x 6, 8 is 
distinctly conical; this last is, I believe, the seed of D. propinquus. 
The plate 132 of Rumphia may really represent D. Draco Willd. 
. The canes described by Rumph with internodes 25-3 feet long, of which a. 
portion is figured in plate 119 f. D. of the ‘Herbarium Amboinense” and which is 
there attributed to Palmijuncus Draco, are almost certainly those of Calamus 
Scipionum. | | 
In conclusion, D. Draco from Palembang is even yet very imperfectly known,’ 
but seems to differ from its very near ally D: propinquus, growing especially 
in the Malay Peninsula, by its leaf-sheaths bearing spiculae, and not laminar spines’ 
and by the fruit not being distinctly pyriform, and probably also by some’ 
peculiarities in the seed. 
The specimens of 7. Draco collected by Teijsmann in Palembang, which. 
I consider as belonging to the typical form, have the  peduneular part of the. 
spadix considerably flattened and spinous only on the margins; the very young fruit, 
of No, 3590 is entirely and very abundantly coyered with the characteristic. 
red resin, is ovoid and terminates in an acute conical point, Of the outermost 
spathe some slashed portions which are still attached to the spathe, are quite. 
devoid of any kind of spines, The portion of the fully developed fruiting spadix: 
of No. 3583, shows the. spikelets with a very thick, angular, zig-zag sinuous, 
axis, and a considerable callus at their axillas; they bear distichously 3-5 fruits. 
on each side, but of the fruits only small fragments of the pericarp remain 
attached to them, so that from these alone it is impossible to recognize the true form 
of the entire fruit. The seed is wanting. Finally I consider as referable to D. Draca. 
a Daemonorops eolleeted in Sumatra, in Priaman, by Diepenhorst (No, 3816 Herb. Hort.: 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carcurra, Vor. XII. 
