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This plant is common in the Peninsula, occurring in Bukit 
Timah, in Singapore, Malacca, Johor, Negri Sembilan. It is 
met with in dense forest, but though very abundam it is quite 
rare to find fruits at least in the south, but it seems to be more 
abundant in Negri Sembilan whence Mr. Moorhouse sent me 
fruiting specimens, and it appears to supply the greater part ot 
the Dragon’s blood of the Malay Peninsula, excellent samples of 
which are often exhibited at our agricultural shows. 
The young rattans are collected in many places, and in 
Johor are known as Rotan Tahi Ayam. 
D. Draconcellus. Becc. 
This is the species which Beccari says is the Rotan Jerenang 
of the Dyaks. His description of it (Nelle Foreste di Borneo, 
p. 608) is too meagre to identify it. He says it has a short peduncle 
to the spadix which is nodding, the leaf sheaths covered with 
almost bristle like black thorns in rows, soon falling off, lobes of 
the leaf linear equidistant numerous very narrow 7-9 raill. broad 
on the back, the three nerves are bristly and the fruit has an 
abundant resin. He obtained it on Matang. On the same 
mountain at the top I got a plant which the Dyaks said was the 
true Jerenang, which has a compact erect panicle, rather thick, 
8 inches long with a stout peduncle furnished with black-tipped 
spines. The flower bracts are orbicular convolute pale colored 
the flowers female rather large, calyx lobes orbicular ribbed, 
petals lanceolate ribbed. Fruit globose yellow, scales rhomboid, 
a little longer than broad and grooved. It shows little resin, but 
the fruit is unripe. The leaves are light colored with linear 
leaflets shortly acuminate narrow and with very few bristles 
except at the tip. The rachis is smooth rather slender with short 
recurved black-tipped thorns at each pair of leaflets, the leaflets 
being almost opposite. This plant may be Beccari s D. 
Dracconcellus, but it does not altogether agree. Another specimen 
from Matang, (July) has broader leaflets, bristly on the nerves at 
the back, with oblong fruits nearly an inch long, the scales 
broader than long and deeply grooved. These fruit are ripe and 
have much resin. It is also known at Jerenang, and, I think, is 
the same plant as the one obtained there later (11,828). 
D. Draco Bl. The Rotan Jernang of Sumatra much 
resembles D. propinquus of the Malay Peninsula. It differs 
apparently chiefly in the spines on the sheath being more needle- 
like and arranged in small tufts, not dagger-shaped and arranged 
in rows as in D . propinquus. It grows to a height of 60 feet, and 
is as thick at the base as the forearm and densely spiny. The 
leaves resemble than of D. propinquus but are less bristly. The 
fruit resembles that of D. micr acanthus, but is rather more conical. 
This was described originally by Rumphins {Herb. Amboinense 
v. 1 14) as the source of Dragon’s blood. He gives a long 
account of it, from specimens sent to him from Djambi and 
