D. longipes) BECCARL THE SPECIES OF DAEMONOROPS. 205 
eyathi-form-campanulate, obsoletely 3-toothed, very soon split into three parts, callous at 
the base, rather sharply striately veined; corolla twice as long as thecalyx, entire and 
slightly ventricose in its lower half; the segments lanceolate, not very acute; staminal 
urceolum slightly longer than the undivided part of the corolla, crowned with six 
triangular subulate teeth; anthers deeply sagittate; ovary ovoid, style very short, stig- 
mata narrow, subulate, protruding beyond the apex of the segments during the 
anthesis. Fruiting  perianth obconical, distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, 
suddenly and rather stoutly conically beaked, 18-23 mm. long, including the beak 
and the perianth, and 12-15 mm. broad; scales in 14 longitudinal series, 7-8 in 
each series (not reckoning the very small ones of the rostrum), narrowly grooved 
along the centre, of a dull dirty light yellowish or reddish-brown colour, slightly 
darker near the margins, and especially towards the point, which is not or only 
slightly produced and is obtuse; margins narrowly scarious, finely erosely toothed. 
Seed 16-17 mm. long, 11 mm. broad, 10 mm. thick, or at times considerably 
smaller; very slightly flattened, rounded at both ends, minutely pitted on the 
surface, when divested from a thin crustaceous, probably once fleshy, integumen- 
tum; the chalazal fovea indistinct; albumen rather deeply ruminated ; embryo 
basal, about as long as one-fourth of the entire length of the seed. 
Hasitat.—The Malayan Peninsula: at Malacca (Grifüth, Maingay No. 1534 in 
Herb. Kew.\; at Selandan (Ridley, No. 10794 in Herb. Calcutta); in the State of Johore 
at Muar and Tanjong Kupang (Ridley, No, 6286 in Herb. Beccari); Singapore at 
Changi (Ridley, No. 6276 in Herb. Beccari), at Chanchu Kang (Ridley, No. 3482 and 
3496 in Herb. Beccari) and at Bukit Timah (Ridley, No. 9143 in Herb. Beccari) ; 
Billiton (Riedel in Herb. Beccari); West Sumatra (Blume); Butor Island (Baker, No. 688 
—specimen in Herb. Bogor); Bangka, at Djebus and Sungei Liat (Tejsmann in Herb. 
Bogor. Griffith gives the Malayan name *'Rotang  Dodow" in Malacca; Ridley 
* Rotang Machap " in Singapore, and Teijsmann ‘ Rotang Tanah” in Bangka. 
OnsERVATIONS.—I have reduced D. strictus Bl. to D. longipes after careful 
examination of portions of Blume’s authentic specimens, at least in regard to the 
female spadix, which in the smallest details and in the fruit in no way differs from 
the corresponding parts of the type specimens of Griffith's Calamus longipes. - 
D. longipes varies a ‘good deal in the dimensions of the spadices and size of 
the fruits. One of Ridley’s specimens from Singapore has a male  spadix with 
the parts more robust but at the same time more contracted than usual, the 
flowering panicle being only 35 em. in length with seven (including that of the 
apex) gradually diminishing partial inflorescences, while in a specimen cultivated at 
Buitenzorg the flowering panicle is about 1 m. in length, has 6-7 large partial 
inflorescences and some others smaller in its terminal part; the largest partial 
inflorescences are as much as 40 cm. long. The male spikelets of D. longipes look 
much like those of some Graminace@ and their male flowers have, as in D. verticillaris, 
nectariform bodies between the stamens, and the inside of the tubular part of 
the corolla has the appearance of being lined with a nectariflous tissue. 
