3 0 4 3 OP THE BOTAL BOTAMC GAEDEK. CALCDTTA. [ 0 . longipes
axis at first furfuriiceous, soou glabresceiit, and almost polished, rigid, slightly
zig-zag siuuouif, the iutemoJes somewhat angular aud with uunicrouB small depressioDs
produced by the adjoiniug parts, not swollen at tho junctures ; partial infiorescences
7-S in number ; those of thu summit small aud with few branchlets, the
lower ones—which are the largest—are aud in cultivated specimwis as much
as 35 cm. long, with a distinct axillary callus and 7-10 spreading, bifttrious, gradually
diminishing, spreading branchlets on each side broudly pyramidate in
outline ; tho lower brauchelets (the largest) have 5-6 distichous, gradually but speedily
diminishing, spreadiug spikclets on each aide; secondary and tertiary spathes have
a very short annular, sheathing part, and aro produced into a smull triangulur acute
or acuminate point ; apikelets with a distinct axillary callus, the lower ones of
each brancholct (the largest) 2-4 em. long, with 8-10 flatly bifarious flowers on
each side ; their axes are slender, zig-zag sinuous, angular ; ¡^psthels striately
veined, very shortly asymmetrically aubinfuiidibular, produced externally to a
broadly triangular bluntish point ; involncre almoet horizontally posticously
subtended by its own spathel, shallowly cupular, orbicular or mors or les.s distinctly
bidentate. Male flo^aerB inserted at an angle of iS", in contact with
each other, oblong-ovoid, obsoletely trigonous, bluntish, l-o mm. long; the calyx
tubular, cyathiforin, finely striately veined, slightlv 3-toothed ; the corolla about
twice us long as the calyx, smooth, divided down two-thirds of its length,
i n t o three lanceolate, externally smooth segments; internally each of the segments is
furnished at its base with two small callosities, between which springs a filament
which in its lower part is connate with the undivided part of the corolla, and in
the free part is subulate and has an inflected apex; anthers linear-lanceolate, acumi
nate, the cells slightly separated at the base aud liere obtuse; internally in the
short tubular part the corolla has the appearance of being lined with a nectariflous
tissue; from the bottom of the corolla rises the rudimentary pistil, which is
formed by three long, linear, subulate rods, united by their bases and reaching to and
even surpassing the middle of the corolla. Female spadix has a long peduncular part,
exactly like that of the male spadix ; the flowering panicle is rather broadly ovate,
40-50 cm. long and has only 2-3 large partial inflorescences and one very small one
at the apex; the axial parts are more or less permanently rusty - fur f uraceous; the main
axis is angular; the lowest partial inflorescences are 20-35 cm. long, have a pianoconvex,
2-7 em. long peduncular part and a very conspicuous axillary callus aud 5-8
distichous spikelets on each side ; secondary spathes as in the male spadix; spikelets
when in flower e recto-pa tent, when in fruit spreading or horizontal and
with a distinct axillary callus; they are of variable length ; the lowest of eflch
inflorescence are the largest and 8-14 cm. long, have 7-10 bifarious flowers on each
side; the others are graduajly smaller; tho axes are zigza? sinuous, the joints straight
or slightly cui-ved; spathels bracteiform with a very short annular limb produced at one
side into a horizontal, broadly triangular acute point; invnlucrophorum pedicelliform, 2-5
mm. long, obsoletely angular, callous at its axilla, at its upper end truncate and with a
very short limb which is slightly produced or only apicuiate at one side; involucre almost
at a level with, and immersed in the involucrophorum, shallowly cupular or pateriform,
entire, orbiculur or slightly more produced on the side of the neuter flower, of which
the areola is rather distinct, not very sharply bordered, often depressed and with a more
or less swollen scar. Female flower» elongate, ovoid, 7 mm. in length; the calyx
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cyathi-form-campanulate, obsoletely 3-toothed, very Boon split into three parts, callous at
the base, rather sharply striately veined; corolla twice as long as the calyx, entire and
slightly ventricose in its lower half; the segments lanceolate, not very acute; staminal
urceolum slightly longei' than the undi- rided part of the corolla, crowned with six
triangular subulate teeth; unthers deeply sagittate; ovoi-y ovoid, style very short, atig-
I'jata narrow, subulate, protruding beyond the apex of the segments during the
antheuia. Fruiting perianth obconioal, distinctly pedicelliform, Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid,
suddenly and rather stoutly conically beaked, 18-23 mm, long, including the beak
and the perianth, and 12-15 mm. broad ; scales in 15 longitudinal series, 7-8 in
each series (not reckoning the very small ones of tho rostrum), narrowly grooved
along the centre, of a dull dirty light yellowish or reddish-brown colour, slightly
darker near the margins, and especially towards the point, which is not or only
slightly produced and is obtuae ; margins narrowly scarious, finely erosely toothed.
Seed 16-17 mm. long, 11 mm. broad, 10 mm. thick, or at times considerably
smaller; very slightly flattened, rounded at both ends, minutely pitted on the
surface, when divested from a thin cruataceous, probably once fleshy, integumentum
; the chalazal fovea indistinct ; albumen rather deeply ruminated ; embryo
hasal, about as long as one-fourth of the entire length of the aeed.
HABITAT.—The Malayan Peninsula: at Malacca {Griffith, Maingay No. 1534 in
Herb, Kew.^; at Selandan {¡iidlcy, No. 10794 in Herb. Calcutta); in the State of Johore
at Muar and Tanjong Kupang {Ridley, No. 6286 in Herb. Beccari); Singapore at
SJhangi {Ridley, No. 6276 in Herb. Beccari), at Chanchu Kang {Ridley, No. 3482 and
3496 in Herb. Beccari) aud at Bukit Timah {Ridle//, No. 9143 in Herb. Beccari) ;
Billiton {Riedel in Herb. Beccari) ; West Sumatra {Blume) ; Butor Island {Baker, No. 688
—specimen in Herb. Bogor); Bangka, at Djebus and Sungei Liât {Teijsmann in Herb.
Bogor. Griffith gives the Malayan name " R o t a n g Dodow" in Malacca; Ridley
" Rotang Machap " in Singapore, and Teijsmann " Rotang Tanah " in Bangka.
OBSEHVATIONS.-I have reduced D. stricius Bl. to D. longipes after careful
examination of portions of Blume's authentic specimens, at least in regard to the
female spadix, which in the smallest details and in the fruit in no way differs from
the corresponding parts of the type specimens of GrrifSth's Calamus longipes.
D. longipes varies a [good deal in the dimensions of the spadices and size of
tho fruits. One of Ridley's specimens from Singapore has a male spadix with
the parts more robust but at the same time more contracted than usual, the
flowering panicle being only 35 cm. in length with aevon (including that of the
apoxl gradually diminishing partial inflorescences, while in a specimen cultivated at
Buitenzorg the flowering panicle is about 1 m. in length, has 6-7 large partial
infloreBcencos and some others .-»mailer in its terminal part; the largest partial
inflorescouces are as much as 40 cm. long. Tho male spikelets of D. longipes look
much liko those of some Graminacea and their male flowers have, as in D. veriiaillarit,
nectaxifurm bodies between tho stamens, and the inside of the tubular part of
the corolla has the appearance of being lined with a nectariflous tissue.