122 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. CD. Motleyt 
end, where bordered by a narrow annular limb; areola of the neuter flower small, 
concave and niche-like, the scar not tumescent. Female flowers broadly conical-acute, 
with a flat base, 5-6 mm. long; their calyx short, cupular, with 3 very broad, 
superficial, apiculate lobes, rusty-furfuraceous, finely striately veined; the corolla a 
little more than twice as long as the calyx, parted almost down to the base into 
3 triangular, acuminate segments; stigmas thickly trigonous, subulate, reaching the 
apex of the segments during the anthesis. Fruit (immature 17-18 mm. long, 13 
mm. broad), ovoid, with a broad base and a round top, mucronulate scales covered 
with a copious, blood-red resin, Sed . . . . . . . , 
HanrraT.—South Borneo at Banjarmassing, discovered by J. Motley in 1857-58, | 
(No. 1103 in Herb. Kew.). Malayan name “ Rotang Djernang laki”, Motley in his 
field-notes writes that ‘‘the Rotang is coarse and brittle, and of no value, but it yields 
a small quantity of the best quality of the drug called * Dragon’s blood? extracted by 
shaking together the unripe fruits in bamboos; the inferior quality by boiling 
the residue and evaporating the extract.” The name “R. Djernang” is applied by the 
Malays to any species of Daemonorops yielding Dragon’s blood, and the adjectivo 
*]aki?, which means “male”, would point to the excellency of the quality produced, 
as it is their custom to distinguish with the name of “laki” the best woods, 
fruits, or similar products, amongst those of the same nature, 
OnseRvATIONS.— D. Motleyi is a very near ally of D, didymophyllus, but differs from 
it not only in the narrower female spadix, but especially in the more elongate and 
less concave spathes, of which the outermost entirely envelopes the inner spathes 
before the anthesis, and probably also in the fruit, which is larger and has a greater 
secretion of resin, There would appear to [belong D. Motleyi, or to a transitional form 
between this and D. didymophyllus, a Daemonorops collected by Ridley at Puak in Sarawak, 
(Borneo), in September 1905 (No. 12408 in Herb. Kew.), of which another specimen is 
preserved in Herb, Hort, Bot. Bogor., coming from Sintang in Dutch W. Borneo, Ridley’s 
specimen has the leaflets elongate lanceolate-elliptical, in pairs as in D. didymophylius, 
but with occasionally a solitary one interposed, 28-32 cm. long, 3-3°5 em. broad ; 
the quite mature fruit is 25-26 mm. long, and 20-21 mm. broad, and is slightly 
covered with red resin; the seed is ovoid, slightly flattened, 16-17 mm. long, 
13 mm. broad, 12 mm. thick. The fruit therefore differs from that of D. didymophyllus 
in being larger and more ovoid; further the seed is not sub-globular, but ovoid 
and somewhat flattened. 
The specimens from Sintang have the leaflets 30-36 cm. long, 3-4 cm, broad, in 
pairs with occasionally a solitary one interposed; the male spadix is very narrow 
about 20 cm. in length; the female spadix has the panicle 18 cm. long, and : 
pedicellar flattened part which is rather strongly armed on the edges as in the type 
specimens of D. Motleyi. I have not seen'an entire fruit, but the scales are resiniferous ; 
the seed is ovoid, obtusely conical at; the upper end, very slightly \flattened, 15 nin 
long, 11 mm. broad. y 
