466 CLXiii. PALMEJE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [p<smonor(rps. 



margin bristly, rachia unarmed, petiole armed with gtont hooked spines, 

 sheaths scurfy armed with long flat black deflexed seriate spines, outer 

 spathe long-beaked dorsally armed with weak Ions deflexed flat spines, 

 spadix unarmed scurfy, fruit globose cuspidate. Miq. PL Ind. Bat. iii. 

 90 ; Walp.Ann. iii. 4771, v. 827. Calamus monticolns, Ch-if. in Oalc. Jowrn. 

 Nat. Rist V. 90 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 97, t. 214 A, B, 0. 



Malay Peninsitia ; on Goonong Miring, a spur of Mt. Ophir, alt. 15PO-2O0O ft., 

 and Penanq Hill, half way up, Griffith. 



Stem about 8 ft. Petiole 10 in. ; leaflets 10-11 by J in. Outer spathe very 

 open, 16-17 in. long ; beak 9-10 in., flat, sparingly armed except towards the apex. 

 ¥rvM the size of a marble, tawny; scales ciianneiled and with a dark brown intro- 

 marginal line ; fruiting calyx explanate, lobes broad ; petals twice as long, ovate. 

 Seed with a fleshy covering. — Descript. from Griffith. The Peaang plant has much 

 coarser spines on the spathe and the fruit is more narrowed inco a beak; Beccari 

 doubts its being conspecifio with the Malaccan. I have seen only very imperfect 

 specimens. 



12. D. petiolaris, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326 ; slender, scurfy, 

 leaves long-petioled, leaflets very long crowded equidistant very narrowly 

 linear tips spinulose, costse 3 setulose above the median only beneath, mar- 

 gins setulose, petiole armed below with seriate spines above with dorsal 

 hooked spines, sheaths crinitely clothed with lon^ close-set ascending 

 slender seriate spines, outer spathe shortly beaked densely armed with 

 long slender spines, spadix short fusiform, branches tomeutose, male calyx 

 cylindric 8-tootIied. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 87 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 475, v. 

 827. Calamus petiolaris, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 93 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 101, t. 216, f. vii. ; P Miq. Palm. ArcUp. Ind. 28. 



Malacca, Griffith. 



Stem erect. Leaves 4-5 ft., exclusive of the 5-7 ft. petiole ; leaflets 15-17 by 

 ^— f in. Spathe 4-5 in., narrowly fusiform, scurfy, beak ^-\ the length of the body, 

 or longer. PcteZs narrowly lanceolate. — Griffith says that probably two species are 

 included here, differing in the length of the leaves ; one with an unarmed raoliis of 

 the leaves, longer more tomentose spadices and longer spikes and a cylindric acutely 

 shortly toothed calyx, but his definition of the two is not very clear. 



13. D. tabaclnus, Becc. mss. ; sheaths rachis and petiole of leaf and 

 branches of spadix brown-furfuraoeous, leaves long-petioled, leaflets very 

 many equidistant narrowly linear tips spinulose, costse 3 setulose above 

 and on the median beneath, margins setulose, petiole subcylindric and 

 sheath armed with small flat pale spines, outer spathe narrowed into a 

 beak as long as the body or longer, crinitely clothed with long straight 

 slender spines, fruit subglobose pale, beak conical. 



Peeak ; King's Collector (2537). 



Stem erect, 2-3 ft. Leaflets 12-14 by J-| in. Spathe 6 in., its beak 3 in. 

 Fruit f in. diam., pale straw-cold., suddenly nan-owed at both ends ; scales chan- 

 nelled, tips dark-cold. ; fruiting calyx subpedicellilorm, lobes broad j petals twice as 

 long. — Distinguished from D. petiolaris by the long beak of the spathe. 



14. D. calicarpus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 326, t. 175, f. vi. ; 

 leaflets equidistant very many linear bristle-pointed, 3 costse above, setu- 

 lose median or all beneath, margins setulose, petiole armed with long 

 straight and short hooked spines, sheaths scurfy armed with long slender 

 subseriate flat erect spines, outer spathe moderately beaked, crinite all 

 over with long slender pale bristles, 2nd and 3rd bearded chiefly along 

 the middle, male spadix much branched, margins of pedicels bearded. 



