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upper ones with few or none of these processes. Spadix female, 8 

 inches or more long, with thick branches erect, peduncle flattened 

 with slender acute spines on the edge, fruit oblong \ inch long, 

 short-beaked deep brown, scales a little broader than long, 

 grooved, very resinous. 



Common in forests, Singapore, Johor, Perak, Penang. 



This rattan, known as Rotang hudang and R. Biltong, is 

 very abundant. Its fruits are very rich in Dragon's blood, but I 

 do not know how far it is used for the resin, if at all, as it does 

 not appear to be ever called Rotan Jerenang. 



D. propinquus Becc. Fl. Brit. Ind. p. 467. 



Stem stout. Leaves long, with rather distant leaflets 1 to 2 

 feet long, \ to i£ inch wide, linear lanceolate acuminate with 

 bristles at the tip and on the nerves at the back. Male spadix very 

 long cylindric, 18 inches with a broad flat thorny peduncle with 

 irregular spines \ inch long or less, the lower spathe broad boat- 

 shaped and spiny, the next with few spines, and the remaining 

 ones spineless. Spadix dense, over a foot long, branches slender. 

 Female spadix long with stout branches. Fruit elliptic obtuse 

 J-inch long, scales rather small convex channelled as long as 

 broad, yellow, but usually covered with red resin. 



Forests in Singapore, Malacca, Selangor, Kemaman, Penang, 

 and Perak. Also Sumatra. 



This plant closely resembles the original Calamus Draco, 

 (Daemonorops Draco) if it is not identical. 



D. inter 'acanthus. Becc. 



Stem when adult 30 or more feet in length and J inch 

 through, greyish green and hardly thorny, not at all so in young 

 plants, but in adults dotted over with short transverse ridges 

 obscurely ribbed. The leaves are about 4 feet long, the petiole 

 armed with short small thorns, yellowish in color along the edges 

 and with short transverse ridges scattered on the back passing 

 into small yellow thorns above, the sheathing part of the petiole 

 is gibbons, the leaflets are alternate narrowly linear about a foot 

 long and half inch wide ending in a long narrow point. They are 

 provided with a few small scattered bristles along the edge and 

 keels. The inflorescences are short, about 6 inches long. The 

 peduncle armed with short black-tipped thorns on a broad 

 conic base. The sheaths are narrow with flat thorns in short 

 transverse rows. The spadix in fruit has short stout branches 

 with 5 or 6 fruits on each. The calyx- lobes orbicular, the petals 

 lanceolate, obtuse, hard and ribbed. The fruit is globose or 

 nearly so, terminated by the three short stigmas. The scales are 

 in 6 or 8 rows with rounded backs grooved, about as long as broad, 

 the tips rounded, and usually densely covered with red resin. 



