D. propinquus-) BEOCARI. THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS, {il 
Hasitat.—The Malayan Peninsula at Malacca (Grifith), Malayan name “ Rotang 
Djernang", Rediscovered in 1900 by H. N. Ridley at Penchur, Johore River. 
(No. 10952 in Herb. Calcutt.). Malayan name “ Rotang Tahi Ayam” or ** R. Djernang ". 
Also at Kwala Pilak in Negri Sembilan on Bukit Senaling (8. Moorhouse}. Ridley 
gives also the locality of Bukit Timah in Singapore. 
"OnsERVATIONS.—I have seen some portions of Griffith’s type specimens in the. 
Herbaria of Kew, Calcutta and Brussels (Herb. Mart). The Kew specimen is of 
a non-cirriferous leaf; that of Brussels has a leaf with a. cirrus 40 om. long; 
that of Calcutta forms the passage between the two having only a rudimentary cirrus. 
Ridley’s specimens seen by me agree perfectly well with those of Griffith and are also 
sterile ; their leaf-sheaths still bear a few small spiculae, which rest on the permanent 
tile: iform base; these sheaths apparently have their surfaces marbled or spotted, 
a fact which accounts for the Malay name “R. Tahi Ayam”, viz, the ‘Fowl-dung 
Rotang”, the variegation having that appearance. The vernacular name of ‘ Rotang 
Djernang” would indicate that it is one from which the Dragon’s blood ‘==Djernang) 
is extracted. And indeed D. micracanthus much resembles D. Draconcellus, one of 
the species that yields the best quality of that drug in Sarawak, and from which it 
differs only in its broader linear-lanceolate leaflets with 3 bristly nerves on both 
surfaces. It seems also a very near ally of the true JD. Draco (Palmijuncus Draco 
Rumph.) from which apparently it differs in the more slender stems and in the 
sheaths not carrying true spines, but very minute, seriate, deciduous spiculae, resting on 
a bulbous base. 
Ridley (l. e.) describes the spadix of D. micracanthus : * Short; under 6 inches, 
* peduncle 3 inches or more long, the lower half armed, with short conie black- 
‘*tipped spines with a thiekered base; branches of spadix short, thick, angular. 
‘‘ Spathes linear-oblong, outer one armed with transverse crests of flat spines 4 inch 
‘long, gray.. Bracts (spathels ? Beec.) very small, ovato, obtuse. Calyx: saucer shaped, 
* nearly flat (in the fruiting perianth? Becc.) with very short rounded lobes, Petals 
‘lanceolate, ribbed, about 4 times as long. Fruit oblong-globose, $ inch through, 
* shortly beaked; (scales) rhomboid, rather broader than long, brownish yellow, 
* grooved down the centre, very strongly resinous. Seed suborbicular flattened ; albumen: 
" much pitted,” 
PLATE 48.— Daemonorops micracanthus Bece. Figs. 1-3, from the type specimen 
in the Herbarium at Kew; f. 4 from a similar specimen in Martius’s Herbarium at 
Brussels. : | 
= 4l. DazwoxonoPs PROPINQUUs Becc. in Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 407, and in 
Rec., Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 224; Ridley, Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. ii, 181. 
Calamus Draco (not of Willd.) Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v, 65, 
and Palms Brit. Ind. 75 (exl. descript. of Roxb. ?) pl. CCI, A. B. ; Mit 
Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 205, ¿nd edit. (partly), pl. 175, f. x 3, 4, 5, 7 
(exel. f. 1 and perhaps f, 6, 8, which apparently belong to D. 
Draco from Palembang). 
DxscnrPTION.—Seandent, and of moderate size. Sheathed stem about 3 cm, in diam, 
-Leaf-sheaths -gibbous above, densely armed with; very unequal spines, of which some 
