ANMALS O F T H E BOYAL B O T A N I C G A E D E N , CALCÜTTA. [D. ruber.
tho male spodix, cylmdraooons, with seToral small deptsnions and BWollmgs
produced during ptefloration ; the largest (lowest) spitelets of each infloresoence,
are 6-8 em. long and have 4-6 not quite distichous flowers on each aide; their axes
a r e somwhat thick, acutely angular, sinuous; spathels very short, annular, scatious,
slightly extended at one side into a short, broadly triangular, acute limb;
invohicrophorum pedicelliform, obcouical, rather slender at the base, acutely angular,
not callous at the aiillo, extended on one side at the upper end into a broadly
triangular acute point ; inïolncre sHglitly raised above the involucrophorum and terminating
in a broad, flat, orbicular seal- which is edged by a short, annular, truncate, obso.
letely 2-;oothed rim ; areola oí the neuter flower concave, niche-like, and not swollen
rouud t i e scar, f m a i e ihweri conically elongate, acuminate before opening, 8 mm.
long 4 mm. thick; calyx short, cupular, striately veined, msty-furfuraceous at the
base' and having 3 superScial apiculate teeth on the margin; corolla thrice as
long as the calyx, its undivided urceolate basal part as long as the calyx, the
.egmeuts TRIANGULAR-lanceolate, often slightly sinuous; stigmas reach the apex of
the segments during the anthesis. Nater ßmers usually flattened by pressure, lanceolate
in outline acute, about 6 mm. long, their calyx obconic cyathiform, S-denticnlate ;
their corolla thrice as long as the calyx. Fruiti«, ptrimlh explanate. Fr„U rather
large, spherical, or at times slightly depressed, perfectly round above with a very
short beak • scales exactly rhomboidal, not prolonged at the apex, arranged m
longitudinal series very narrowly and sharply grooved alon.; the centre, of a uniform
s t r ^ - b r o w n colour, covered by a thin coating of red resm. W globular.
HABITAT.—It is only certainly known to grow in West Java in the province of
Bantam Javanese name " Hooy Pella»; Malay name "Kotang Pellah". Ulume gives it
also that of " Hooy Solan" of the hill people of Java; bnt this name is more particularly
applied to D. inelanocàaetes.
OÍSEEVATIOIIS.—This species was Srst named Cahmm ruber by Reinwardt in
a letter addressed by him to Martins, and accompanied by a drawing of the fruit,
which is reproduced in plate 116 f. V, of the "Historia Naturalis Palmarum";
the description appeared at page 209 of the first edition of the pages 179-230 of
that work. In the second edition of these pages, C. ruber appeared under the name
of Daeinonoro^s ruber at page 205, but here Martins excludes the figure (V) of tlie
fruit, upou which, however, the species D. mher must, I believe, be based.
Martius nevertheless is right ia considering this fruit as beiag that of D. aecedens
B1 but this is one and the same with D. ruber of the same author. Martius'»
description of D. mher at page 205 does not therefore apply at all to Calamus ruber
of Reinwardt, but corresponds in part to the Daemonoropa figured by Blume under
the name of D. Draco, and in part to D.
Of D. accedena Bl. I have seen portions of Blume's authentic specimens
collected in Java by Kuhl and Van Hasselt, which coiTespond exactly to Blume's
description and figure mentioned above. Further I received from Dr. Treub
complete specimens of D. rvier, cultivated at Buitenzorg, upon which I have
principally based my description, and which have enabled me to establish the
resolute identity of C. ruber Reinwardt {D. ruber Bl.) with D. accedens Bl.
D. mattanensis.'] BECCAHI. T H E S P E C I E S OF D A E M 0 N 0 E 0 P 3. 117
Blume (Rumphia 1. c.) describes the outer spathe of D. ruier "aculéis crebris
setiformibus e c h i n a t a p r o b a b l y because parts of other .species had been mixed with
the specimens studied by him, as aU the species of the group of D. Draoo,^ to
whicb !>. ruber belongs, have the outer spathe armed with short stout, digitate
spines, while bristly spines on the spathes occur in species belonging to quite
difícrent groups. This circumstance may perhaps account for Blurae not having
recognized C. ruber Reinwardt in his own D. accedent.
The red secretion of the fruit of D. ruber is very scanty and not worth collection.
PLATE 46.—Daemonoropa ruber Bl. Portion of a leaf-sheath with the petiole;
an intermediate portion of a leaf (under surface); male spadis (in the centre of the
plate J; female spadis in flower and the apex of a spadix with a mature fruit (on
the left side). From a specimon cultivated at Buitenzorg in Herb. Beccari.
43 DAGMONOROPS MATTANENSIS Becc. Nolle Foreste di Borneo, 6('8, and in Rec.
Bot. Surv. Ind. ii, 224.
DESCRIPTION.—Scandent, of moderate size. Sheathed stem about 2 cm. in diam. Leafsheaths
very slightly gibbous above, rusty-furfuraceous, not very densely armed with
solitary, scattered, very unequal, short or long, flat, brown-schistaceous spines;
the mouth sparingly spinous or at times smootb. Leaves about 1-2 m. long in the pinniferous
part and terminating in a rather slender cirrus; the petiole itself 30 cm. long (in
one leaf), thickly biconvex, 8-10 mm. broad, with obtuse edges, armed beneath along the
dorsum with rather feeble, straight, deflexed spines, and covered on the upper surface
with numerous very small, very sharp, ascendent prickles which rest on a tuberculiform
base; the prickles longer near the base, especially on the margins; the racbis is convex
on its upper surface and prickly in its lower portion and has a superficial furrow on
each side where the leaflets are inserted; higher up it is bifaced and has the salient
angle spinuloua; on the lower surface it is armed along the dorsum with solitary, not
very stroog claws, which become first 3-nate, and finally 5-nate—half-whoiled, but
towards the apex only and on the cirrus; leaflets not very numerous ,36 in all in one
specimen), sub-equidistant, remote (5-10 em. a p a r t \ papyraceous, green, slightly paler
beneath ensiform, gradually narrowing towards a rather acute base, and not very gradually
and rather shortly acuminate at the upper end to a subulate ciliate-spinulous tip;
the mid-costa is aouie and the side nerves slender and naked on both surfaces; the midcosta
alone has a few spinules on the upper surface near the apex; transverse veinlets very
numerous, very minute and short, and under a lens give an almost granulate appearence
to the upper surface; margins very minutely, appresaedly and rather closely spinulous;
the largest leaflets ave the intermediate, 25-30 cm. long, 18-22 mm. broad. Male apadix
Female spadix nodding, borne on a slender, almost unarmed, flattened,
obtusely edged, 15-18 cm. long, peduncular part. Primary spathes The
flowering panicle itself is short, 16-18 cm. long, is covered in every part with a rustyfurfuraceous
indumentum and carries a few (4-5) approximate, small, partial inflorescences,
of which only the lower have small spikelets in all and the upper only 1-3;
the secondary spathes have a very short annular limb, slightly extended at one side
into a short, broadly triangular point; spikelets short, the largest 2-S-3 cm. long and