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upper ones with few or none of these processes. Spadix female, 8 
inches or more Ion" 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. 
T his rattan, known as Rotang hudang and R. Butong, 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. FI. Brit. Ind. p. 467. 
Stem stout. Leaves long, with rather distant leaflets 1 to 2 
teet long, £ to i£ inch wide, linear lanceolate acuminate with 
bristles at the tip and on the nerves at the back. Male spadix very 
Jong 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? 
hemale spadix long with stout branches. Fruit elliptic obtuse 
j-mch 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. 6 
This plant closely resembles the original Calamus Draco, 
(Dciemonorops Draco) if it is not identical. 
D. micracanthus. Becc. 
Stem when adult 30 or more feet in length and § inch 
through greyish green and hardly thorny, not at all so in youn" 
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 
m 6 or 8 rows with rounded backs grooved, about as long as broad, 
the tips rounded, and usually densely covered with red resin. 
