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acutely trigenous; spathels resemble the secondary  spathes, but are smaller; 
involuerophorum  pedicelliform, 3-5 mm. long, thick, slightly obconical, trigonous, 
more or less callous at its axilla, truncate and flat above, and with a very narrow limb, 
that is slightly extended at one side into a small triangular point; the involucre is 
slightly raised above the  involuerophorum, is shortly and thickly  pedicelliform, 
flat-discoid, orbicular, 5 mm. in diameter at its upper end, edged by a short 
limb, which is slightly produced on the outer side; areola of the neuter flower 
very conspicuous, usually longer than broad, slightly concave and sharply edged. 
Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit conspicuously stalked by the  pedicelliform 
involucre, rather large, 23-25 mm, long, about 20 mm. across iu its broadest 
part (a little above the base), ovoid-pyriform, ñe. rather conspicuously diminishing 
from near the base towards a somewhat broad, and slightly depressed apex; the latter 
crowned by the remains of the small, sessile, divergent, thickish, and linear stig- 
mas; pericarp brittle; scales arranged in 16-18 longitudinal series, regularly 
rhomboidal, broader than long (6X4 mm.) sharply and narrowly grooved along the 
centre, abundantly covered with dragon’s blood secretion, and glossy when covered 
with it, otherwise dull and uniformly yellowish-brown, very slightly prolonged 
into a short, round point, their margins faintly erosely-toothed. Seed, when divested 
of the dry, crustaceous, brittle (once fleshy) integument, broadly-conically-ovoid 
from a flattish base, 15 mm. long, 12-13 mm, broad, slightly ventricose on the 
raphal side; the chalazal fovea is placed a little below the middle, is  slit-like and 
does not penetrate very deeply into the albumen; the surface is very finely pitted, 
and minutely grained; albumen deeply ruminated; embryo exactly basal. Sometimes 
two seeds are to be met with in one fruit, and then they are flat on one side 
and convex on the other. 
Hanrrar.—Pulo Penang (Grifith) where, as far as I know, it has not been 
found again by modern botanists. In the Malayan Peninsula in the district of 
Perak (Scortechini in Herb. Beccari). Also in Sumatra (Forbes No. 2287 in Herb. 
Calcutt.). This is the best dragon’s blood-yielding Rotang in the Malayan Peninsula. 
Malay name “Rotang Djernang". 
OxnservAtions.—It is very closely related to D. Draco, growing in Palembang, 
from which it differs by its fruit being more plainly pyriform, and by the conically 
shaped seed; it probably also differs in the leaf-sheaths which are, apparently, 
covered with small spiculae in the Palembang plant, and conspicuously armed with 
laminar spines in D. propinquus. 
My description of D. propinquus is derived from many sources. I have 
examined in the Herbarium at Kew a portion of the fruit spadix figured by Griffith 
in the plate CCI, B. (Calamus Draco) and another specimen of a very young 
spadix, apparently that figured in plate CCI, A, Identical with Griffith’s specimens 
is one of Scortechini’s accompanied by a portion of a leaf; on this material I 
have based the description of the leaves and fruit; the characteristics of the leaf- 
sheaths are derived from Forbes’s No. 2287; in this specimen the spadix, in flower, 
is 35 em. long, and the leaflets are 27 cm. long, and 22-23 mm. broad, or some. 
what smaller than in Scortechini’s type specimens, The fruit figured by Martius 
as that of Calamus Draco in plate 175, f.x 3, 4, 5, 7 and said to come from 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Gan», Catcurra, Vor. XII. 
