120 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIO GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [D. Motleyi. 
extended at one side into a broadly tringular, acute point; involucrophorum shortly 
and thickly obconic, 3-5 mm. long, angular, slightly callous at its axilla, 
unilaterally extended at the apex into a comparatively large, broadly-triangular, 
acute point; the involucre has a short and thick base, and in parts slightly exceeds 
the involucrophorum, but is yet shorter than its apex, with a very short, 
unequal, very shallowly cupular limb; areola of the neuter flower concave, niche- 
like, sometimes sublunate, the scar not swollen. Female flowers  conical-ovoid, 
acuminate before the anthesis, 8 mm. long; the calyx very short, about 2 mm. high, 
cupular with 3 very superficial but distinctly apiculate teeth, slightly furfuraceous 
and finely veined; the corolla is at least four times as long as the calyx, undivided 
for a third of its length upwards, the segments elongate-triangular, acuminate. 
Fruiting perianíh explanate under the fruit. Fruit globose-ovoid, suddenly narrowing 
into a very short conical beak, 22-25 mm. long, 18-20 mm. broad; scales arranged 
in 14-15 longitudinal series, exactly rhomboidal and with an obtuse, not pro- 
longed, point, narrowly and sharply grooved along the centre, of a chestnut-brown 
colour, almost glossy, not or only very slightly covered with a resinous exudation» 
Seed globular-ovoid. 15 mm. long, 14 mm. broad, 12-13 mm. thick, as usual 
pitted and ruminate; embryo almost basal. 
Hanrrar,— The west coast of Sumatra at Priaman (Diepenhorst) I have found 
this species a second time and in fruit, August 1878, at Ayer Mantchor near 
Padang (Beccari P. S. No. 832). Malayan name “ Rotang Sigoi" (Miq.). 
OBSERVATIONS.—The specimens of D. gracilipes collected by me at Ayer Mantchor 
agree perfectly with the typical specimens which I have received from the Herbaria 
of Utrecht and Leyden. The leaf described by Miquel (frons perbrevis flabelliformi- 
contracta) is evidently a radical one, and from a young plant. I have also seen a 
portion of an authentic specimen of Blume’s Calamus accedens var. brevispatha collected 
by Korthals in Sumatra, and have thus been able to identify it with Miquel’s D. 
gracilipes. Another specimen named C. accedens of Blume, which also comes from 
Sumatra and was collected by Praetorius, is also D. gracilipes. 
D. gracilipes is easily distinguishable from other species of the group by its erect, 
non-scandent stem, and by the globular-ovoid, conically beaked, not, or only very 
slightly resinifluous fruit. The fruits of the specimens collected by me were almost 
free from resinous secretion, but those produced by plants grown in the hot-houses of 
my much lamented friend, the Marquis Bardo Corsi Salviati, at Sesto near Florence, 
derived from seeds also collected by me in Sumatra, have a very slight covering of 
red resin. 
Prate 48.—Daemonorops gracilipes Bece, The lower part of the plant; portions 
of a leaf from a full grown plant; portion of the upper part of a sheathed stem 
carrying a fruiting spadix; an entire seed; another seed bisected longitudinally along 
a line passing through the chalazal fovea and the embryo. From Becc. P. S. No. 832, 
in Herb. Beccari. 
45. Darmonorops MoTLEYi Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 224. 
Descrietion.— High scandent, 15-18 m. long (Motleyi) Sheathed stem about 2 cm. 
in diameter.  Leaf-sheaths gibbous above, armed with broad, thinly laminar, elastic, 
