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species is established. But I have described the male plant from that cultivated at 
Buitenzorg under the name of Calamus depressiusculus, which is almost certainly derived 
from seeds of the same gathering as the fruits mentioned above. 
In the specimen from Mount Sibajak the fruits are not so plainly depressed and 
are longer pedicelled, being borne on an involucrophoram 2-3 mm. long; also the 
seed is not so conspicuously flattened. | 
D. depressiusculus is very closly related to D. Riedelianus and D. Gaudichaudit, but 
distinguishable by its smaller fruit and the more flattened seed. 
Puare 63.—Daemonorops depressiusculus Bece. Lower portion of a male spadix 
before flowering; male spadix in flower; upper portion of a leaf-sheath and base of 
the petiole; intermediate portion of a leaf (upper surface). From a plant cultivated 
at Buitenzorg (Herb. Beccari). A spikelet with mature fruits and one seed, from the 
type specimen in the Herbarium at Utrecht. 
60. DarMoNonops GauprcHAUDE Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 331; Walp. Ann, iii, 
481 and v, 829; Becc. in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 226, and in 
Perkins, Fragm. Fl. Philipp. i, 47, and in Webbia. i. 365, and in Philip. 
Journ, of Science, iii, 342. 
Calamus Gaudichaudii H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 286, 
Daemonorops fuscus Mart. Hist. Nat Palm. iii, 331; Walp. Ann. iii, 481 and 
vUe 
Calamus usitatus Blanco," Fl. de Filip. 1st edit. (1837) 265 and Gran. Edic. i, 
. 880; Kunth, Enum. Plant. iii, 595.; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 340; 
Walp. Ann. ili, 490 and v, 831; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 131. 
Description.—Scandent. Sheathed stem 2-4°5 cm. in diameter,  Leaf-sheaths gibbous 
above, more or less rusty-furfuraceous when young, armed with variable but usually 
thin, laminar, approximate, more or less seriate, rather long, blackish, spreading or 
deflexed spines; at times the spines are confluent by their bases, and several of 
them are spiculiform; at the mouth the spines are as much as 7-8 em. in length 
and erect. Leaves large, 1:5-2 m. long in the pinniferous part; petiole about 
20-40 cm. long, more or less spinous on the edges, flattish or slightly concave on 
the lowest part of its upper surface, where it is usually more or less covered with 
erect prickles.- Leaflets very numerous, equidistant, closely set, linear or linear- 
ensiform, broadest below the middle, thence tapering towards the base, and 
gradually acuminate upwards to a subulate bristly tip, papyraceous, green and 
concolorous on both surfaces, 3-costulate; on the upper surface the  mid-costa is 
somewhat  bristly-spinulous near the apex, the side costae bristly from the 
middle upwards at least; on the lower surface the mid-costa alone is rather closely 
bristly ; margins closely spinulous; transverse veinlets rather numerous, and almost 
equally distinct on both surfaces ; the medial leaflets are 35-45 cm. long, and 15-95 
mm, broad. Male spadiz very similar to that of D. oblongus and allied species, about 
