116 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALOUTTA. [D. ruber. 
the male spadix,  cylindraceous, with several small depressions and swellings 
produced during prefloration; the largest (lowest) spikelets of each inflorescence, 
are 6-8 cm. long and have 4-6 not quite distichous flowers on each side; their axes 
are somwhat thick, acutely angular, sinuous; spathels very short, annular, scarious, 
slightly extended at one side into a short, broadly triangular, acute limb ; 
involuerophorum pedicelliform, obconical, rather slender at the base, acutely angular, 
not callous at the axilla, extended on one side at the upper end into a broadly 
triangular acute point; involucre slightly raised above the involucrophorum and terminat- 
ing in a broad, flat, orbicular scar which is edged by a short, annular, truncate, obso. 
letely 2-toothed rim; areola of the neuter flower concave, niche-like, and not swollen 
round the scar. Female flowers conically elongate, acuminate before opening, 8 mm, 
long, 4 mm. thick; calyx short, cupular, striately veined, rusty-furfuraceous at the 
base and having 3 superficial apiculate teeth on the margin; corolla thrice as 
loug as the calyx, its undivided urceolate basal part as long as the calyx, the 
segments triangular-lanceolate, often slightly sinuous; stigmas reach the apex of 
the segments during the anthesis. Neuter flowers usually flattened by pressure, lanceolate 
in outline, acute, about 6 mm. long, their calyx obconic-cyathiform, 3-denticulate ; 
their corolla thrice as long as the calyx. Fruiting perianth explanate. Fruit rather 
large, spherical, or at times slightly depressed, perfectly round above with a very 
short beak; scales exactly rhomboidal, not prolonged at the apex, arranged in 18 
longitudinal series very narrowly and sharply grooved alonz the centre, of a uniform 
straw-brown colour, covered by a thin coating of red resin. Seed globular. 
Hasrrat.—It is only certainly known to grow in West Java in the province of 
Bantam. Javanese name “Hooy Pella”; Malay name *'Rotang Pellah". Blume piv S 
also that of * Hooy Selan” of the hill people of Java; but this name is more partieularly 
applied to D. melanochaetes. 
OsnsERVATIONS.—'lhis species was first named Calamus ruber by Reinwardt ip 
a letter addressed by him to Martius, and accompanied by a drawing of the fruit, 
which is reprodaced in plate 116 f. V, of the ‘‘ Historia Naturalis Palmarum "5 
the description appeared at page 209 of the first edition of the pages 179-230 of 
that work. In the second edition of these pages, C. ruber appeared under the name 
of Daemonorops ruber at page 205, but here Martius excludes the figure (V) of the 
fruit, upon which, however, the species D. ruber must, I believe, be based. 
Martius nevertheless is right in considering this fruit as being that of D. accedens 
Bl, but this is one and the same with D. ruber of the same author. Martius’s 
description of D. ruber at page 205 does not therefore apply at all to Calamus ruber 
of Reinwardt, but corresponds in part to the Daemonorops figured by Blume under 
the name of D. Draco, and in part to D. propinquus. 
Of D. accedens Bl. I have seen portions of Blume’s authentic specimens 
collected in Java by Kuhl and Van Hasselt, which correspond exactly to Blume’s 
description and figure mentioned above. Further I received from Dr. Treub 
complete specimens of D. ruber, cultivated at Buitenzorg, upon which I have 
principally based my description, and which have enabled me to establish the 
absolute identity of C. ruder Reinwardt (D. ruber Bl.) with D. accedens Bl. 
