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height of about 6 feet, it droops to the ground, 
takes root near the tip and sends up a new upright 
shoot, which behaves in the same way. It is not 
uncommon to see 6 or 8 such stems being formed. 
The stem is green when first cut but, after prepara- 
tion, a very pale yellow or a deep brown. Of no 
use except for walking sticks of which it provides 
some very handsome specimens. 
20. Rotan Jerenang. 
Daemonoro'ps spp. 
This is the name applied to several species the 
scales of whose fruits are more or less covered with 
a kind of reddish resin, which is collect -d and sold 
as the “ Dragons* blood ” of commerce. The stems 
are not known to be used and are probably of poor 
quality. The resin is collected in various ways. 
It is sometimes prepared by drying the fruits and 
then shaking them in a small basket with cockle 
shells. The resin thus beaten off falls through the 
meshes of the basket and is collected on a cloth 
damped in hot water, and squeezed into a block. 
Sometimes the dry flakes of resin are collected and 
sometimes the block is broken up to make a powder. 
It is said that the purest dragons’ blood is obtained 
by shaking the dry fruit and melting the obtained 
resin. In some places in the Dutch Indies, the ripe 
fruit is put in a basin with water and crushed. 
The resin is separated out by the water, which is 
strained to remove the fruit remains which have 
lost their colour. This water is left standing and 
the resin settles at the bottom of the basin; the 
water is removed arid the remaining pigment poured 
into baskets made of pandan leaves, in which it 
