114 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. | D. ruber. - 
Penang is certainly that of D, propinquus; probably it belonged to the same fruit- 
spadix figured by Griffith in plate CCI, B; its seed (fig. 5, 7) has the characteristic 
conical-ovoid form peculiar to D. propinquus, whereas the seed represented by 
the figures 6 and 8 of the same plate, which is oblong in section is apparently 
that of D. Draco from Palembang. 
PLATE 44.—Daemonorops propinquus Becc. An intermediate portion of a leaf 
and a fruiting spadix; seed entire, from the raphal and antiraphal side; another 
seed longitudinally eut through the chalazal fovea and the embryo. From Scorte- 
chini’s specimen in Herb. Beccari. | 
Pirate 45.—Daemonorops propinquus Bece, Portion of the sheathed stem with 
two female spadices shortly after the flowering stage; the upper end of a leaf. From 
Forbes’ No. 2287 in Herb. Beccari. 
42. DarMoNoRoPs RUBER Bl. Rumphia, iii, 6 (partly as to description), pl. 148 
f. 8-12; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 205, 2nd edit. (only as to the 
plant of Reinwardt 4); Walp. Ann. iii, 478, and v, 828; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. iii, 95; Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bogor, 74. 
Calamus ruber Reinwardt in Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, ii, 209, lst edit., pl. 
116 f. 5, fruit; Kunth, Enum. Pl. iiij 208; Miquel, Analecta Bot. Ind. 
6, and De Palm. Are, Ind. 29. 
Daemonorops accedens Bl. Rumphia iii, 13 (excl. var. re»ispatha , pl. 1833 
Walp. Ann. ii, 478 and v, 828; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., iiij 94, and Prodr. 
Fl. Sum. 256 and 593(?); Teijsm. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 74. 
Calamus accedens Miq. De. Palm. Arc, Ind., 28; H. Wendl. in Kerch. 
Palm. 235, 
Palmijuncus Draco (only as to the fruits from Java) Rumph. Herb. Amb. 
*, Ho. 
Description.—Scandent, rather robust. Sheathed stem 2°5-4 cm. in diam. Leaf- 
sheaths fugaciously rusty-brown furfuraceous, powerfully armed with lead-brown, flat, 
very unequal, horizontal or slightly deflexed spines, of which some are large and as 
much as 5 cm, in length, slightly wavy or sinuous, approximate by their broad bases, 
and more or less irregularly seriate, while others, more numerous and a good deal 
smaller, are interposed between the large ones, and are either scattered, or more 
or less seriate, Leaves large, about 2 m. long including the petiole, and prolonged 
(those at least on the upper part of the stem) into a long and clawed cirrus » 
the petiole in the leaves of the upper part of the adult plant is 12-13 mm. broad 
and about 30 cm. long, while in leaves of young plants and in those of the lower 
part of adult plants is twice as longd; it is plano-convex just at its base, otherwise 
flattened-biconvex, armed on the upper surface and on the margins with Straight 
prickles, those on the margins being the longest, on the lower armed along the. 
centre from end to end with straight, strong, at times deflexed, 3-nate prickles, 
which change into claws on the rachis; the latter convex in its first portion on the 
upper surface, where more or less armed with scattered prickles and with a narrow 
