110 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (f, micracanthus. 
HaBrrAT.— Borneo. Collected by myself in July 1867 on Buket Skadjang, at the 
foot of Gunong Mattang near Kuching, in Sarawak. (P. B. No. 3644.) It yields the 
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best quality of Dragon's blood known in Sarawak, 
OssERVaATIONS.—]t is related to D. Draco and D. micracanthus in respect of the leaf- 
sheaths, which are armed with bristle-like seriate spiculae, not with laminar spines, but 
differs from both, as from the other allied species, by the very narrowly linear leaflets. 
From what I can judge by the specimen of a leaf (Herb. Hort. Bog. No. 16337) 
D. Draconcellus grows also in Dutch Borneo probably in the Residency of Sambas, but 
the exact locality is not noted. In this leaf the leaflets are exactly as in the 
. specimens from Sarawak, but they are minutely ciliate only on the mid-costa and 
underneath, while the side nerves are usually naked, and only exceptionally have a 
very few bristles upon them. 
Prate 42.—Daemonorops Draconcellus Bece, Portion of the sheathed stem with 
a male spadix on the right hand side of the plate) ; female spadix in flower (in the 
centre). Fruiting spadix of the typical form; 3 detached fruits of a` variety ` which 
has the fruit ovoid-ellipsoidal ; detached male and female flowers (in the upper part 
‘of plate’. 
40. DAEMONOROPS MICRACANTHUS Becc. in Hook. f. Fi. Brit. Ind. vi, 467, and E 
Rec. Bot. Surv. Iud. ii, 224 (micracanthus) ; Ridl. Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. ii, 180. 
Calamus micracanthus Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 62, and Palit 
Brit. Ind. 72; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 359; Walp. Ann. iii, 489, 
and v, 831 (miéeracanihus); Miq. Fl. ind. Bat. iii, 128. 
Descerption.—Scandent, slender. Sheathed stem 10-13 cm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths, 
elongate, cylindrical, gibbous above, covered with very numerous, minute, light- 
coloured, spinuliferous tubercules, which are at times scattered but more frequently 
confluent, and aligned to form very small, unequal, sinuous, interrapted and 
more or less approximate. series. Ocrea very short or almost obsolete, Leaves on 
the lower part of the stem of very young plants not cirriferous; the upper leaves 
have a slender (in one leaf 40 cm. long) clawed cirrus; petiole slender, elongate 
20-30 cm, long, channelled only at its base, otherwise  flattish above or else 
sub-biconvex, margins acute and more or less prickly, beneath feebly armed 
along the centre with a few solitary, small claws; rachis  bifaced, with a 
very acute salient but smooth angle on the upper surface, sparingly and feebly 
clawed underneath or at times, in non-cirriferous leaves, smooth; leaflets rather 
numerous (11-20 on each side), rather remotely equidistant, inserted at a rather 
acute angle, narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, larger about their middle and 
gradually narrowing thence towards a rather acute base, and upwards to a very 
gradually long-acuminate, and bristly-penicillate tip; they have 3 bristly-spinulous 
costae on both surfaces; underneath the spinules of ihe mid-costa are very small 
and very approximate; transverse  veinlets sinuous and slender; the margins 
Appressedly spinulous-serrulate ; the intermediate leaflets are about 30 em. long and 
15 mm. broad; the upper leaflets are shorter and less acuminate. Other parts 
unknown. sd 
