Calamus.] CLXIII, PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 437 
flagellum ; sheath armed, produced into a ligula or ochrea, and with or 
without a lateral armed flagellum. Spadices axillary, usually elongate, 
much branched, sometimes produced into a flagellum. Spathes tubular or 
open, persistent, sheathing the peduncle and branches of the spadix and 
passing into bracts and bracteoles (spathels and spathellules). Flowers 
small, polygamo-dicecious, in usually distichous often scorpioid spikelets 
solitary or binate (a fem. or male or both) in the bracteoles. MALE FL. 
Calyx cupular, 3-toothed. Petals 3, acute, coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 
ô, filaments short, anthers dorsifixed. Feu. rL. slightly accrescent, fruiting 
pedicelliform or lexplanate. Calyx of the male. Corolla tubular below, 
fid, valvate. Staminodes forming a cup. Ovary incompletely 3-celled, 
clothed with retrorse scales; style short or rather long, stigmas 3; ovules 
ilar, erect. Fruit globose or ellipsoid; style terminal; pericarp thin, 
clothed with appressed deflexed closely imbricating polished scales. Seed 
subglobose or oblong, smooth or pitted; albumen equable or ruminate; 
embryo ventral or basal.—Species about 160-170 trop. Asiatic, Malayan, 
ustralian and a few trop. African. 
The following arrangement of the groups and species is taken from Beccari's mss. 
v diagnoses and descriptions of the species are from his rough notes and the works 
xburgh, Griffith, Martius and Kurz, in all cases aided by specimens when I had 
Access to them. —J. D. H, 
GnovP I, Leaves with many equidistant leaflets. Spathe 1st, elongate- 
tubular, dilated and lacerate above; 2nd, tubular, infundibular. Spadix 
mith the partial infl. and spikelets provided with a pedicellar portion 
'acluded in their respective spathes. Fruiting perianth explanate. 
Pathellule of fem. 8. short, not pedicelliform. Sp. 1-9. 
GnovP IT. Leaves with very few radiating or digitate leaflets, rachis 
hot flagelliferous ; leaf sheath flagelliferous. Spathe 1st very long, tubular, 
mouth lacerate ; 2nd, thick, inflated, lacerate. Spadices male and fem. 
simply decompound ; partial infl. and spikelets with a pedicelled portion 
wetted at the mouth or back of their respective spathes. Fruiting 
Perianth explanate. Spathellules of fem. fl. short, not pedicelliform. Fruit 
cales more than 19-15.seriate. Seed not ruminate; embryo basilar.— 
(Blender scandent species; stamens 2-seriate, filaments thickened at the 
ase, tips not inflected). Sp. 10-12. 
Grove ITI Leaves ipi idistant ; rachis not flagelli- 
. nnate, leaflets equidistant ; 
ferous, leaf-sheath flarelliferous. Spathe 1st, elongate-tubular, closely 
t ne, Partial infi. and spikelets (inserted at the mouth and bac o 
8 ;,; ath). Fruiting calyx explanate or hardly callous and pedicelliform. 
aveo ees of fem. fl. not pedicelliform. Seeds not dorsally ruminate- 
Veolate ; embryo basilar, Sp. 13-31. 
our IV Rachi i ; leaf-sheath flagelliferous 
- Lachis of leaves not flagelliferous; leat-s erous 
nally Spathe 1st very long, at first tubular closed, at length longitudi 
y Split open, loriform, laminar or foliaceous. Seed not superficially 
; albumen equable. Sp. 32-39. 
Group y Rach; . : sheath flagelliferous. 
. h t flagelliferous; shea g TOU 
Spathe lst submernbramcua, at fret elongate tubular at length longitudi- 
Y more or less split and partly sublaminar. Fruiting calyz more or 
