.118 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALOUTTA. — []. gracilines. 
with only 4-5 flowers in all; their axes are thickish, strongly sinuous, acutely 
3-gonous; the spathels have a short annular limb extended at one side into a very 
broad, yet short, acute point; involucrophorum short and thick, obconic, more or less 
angular, extended at the upper end on one side into a triangular acute point; involucre 
slightly raised above the involucrophorum by a thick base, very shallowly cupular 
or with the broad, flat, orbicular floral dise bordered by a short, annalar, truncate 
limb; areola of the neuter flower slightly concave, niche-like, the svar indistinct. 
Female flowers conic, acute, with a flat base, 6-7 mm. long; the calyx very short, 
subcupular, truncate, with 3 very superficial apiculate lobes, rusty-furfuraceous, not 
or obsoletely veined; the corolla thrice as long as the calyx, parted almost to the 
base into 3 triangular acuminate segments.  Pruiting-perianth quite explanate. Fruit 
broadly ovoid, or sub-pyriform, with a rounded base and a regularly conical and rather 
acute top; it is 23-24 mm. long, 19-20 mm. broad, crowned by the small recurved 
stigmas; scales in 15 longitudinal series, regularly rhomboid, not. produced at 
the point, broader than long, narrowly and sharply grooved along the centre, yellowish 
or  umber-brown, tinged red very slightly with a scanty resinous secretion. 
Seed globular-ovoid, slightly conical at its obtuse upper end, conspicuously gibbous on 
the raphal side, 16 mm. long, 13-14 mm. broad, 12-13 mm. thick; embryo basal. 
HanrrAr.—Borneo, on Mount Mattang near Kuching in Sarawak, Beccari P. B. 
No. 1931. 
OssERVATIONS.—T'his species is related to D. didymophyllus and D. Motleyi, but it 
has equidistant not geminate leaflets. My specimens want the primary spathes, 
which are all very soon deciduous, but apparently must be short and similar to 
those of the two species mentioned. The Dragon’s blood secretion on the fruits is 
very scanty. 
PLATE 47.—Daemonorops mattanensis Bece. An intermediate portion of a leaf 
(under-surface); portion of a sheathed stem; one spadix with young, and another with 
full-grown fruits. From P. B. No. 1931 in Herb. Beccari. 
44. DaAEMONOROPs GRACILIPES Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 225. 
Calamus (sect. Daemonorops) gracilipes Mig. de Palm, Arc. Ind. 28; H. 
Wendl. in Kerch. Les Palm. 236, 
Daemonorops accedens var. a brevispatha Bl. Rumphia, iii, 13, pl. 133 C; 
Miq. in Journ. de Bot. Néerl i, 19 and Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 94. 
Daemonorops longipes (not of Mart.) Mig. Prodr. Fl. Sum., 255 and 592 
(1860) and in Journ. de Bot. Néerl i, 18. 
Description.—Not scandent, erect, 1:5-2 m. high. Sheathed stem in its upper part 
15-18 mm. in diam, and 3 cm. at the base, where it is covered by the bases 
ef the radical leaves; naked canes 8-10 mm. in diam. Leaf-sheaths covered with a 
rusty-brown furfuraceous scurf, deeply striate longitudinally, the lower ones 
amplectent, split and open on the ventral side and with short stipuliform 
appendages at their mouths; those of the upper part of the plant, tubular- 
cylindrical, not or only very slightly gibbous above, more or less obliquely truncate 
unarmed and non-ocreate at the mouth, sparingly armed with scattered or subseriate 
