Calamus. | CLXIII, PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 439 
in a flagellum, spathels cymbiform acute, flowers } in. long. Mart. 
Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 35; 
Palms Brit. Ind. 43 ; Walp. Ann. ii. 438, v. 829; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. xliii. ii. 909, t. 23, 94 (excl. longisetus); For. Fl. ii. 516. C. schiz- 
ospathus, Griff /l. cc. 32 & 41, t. 187; Mart. Le 332; Walp. ll. cc. 482, 
829; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 7. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, the KHasrA Hints, Muw- 
NIPORE and Pr@u, ascending to 4000 ft. . 
Stems densely tufted 12-18 ft. high, internodes 2-3 in. long, 1-14 in. diam. 
Leaves 19.18 ft.; leaflets few, 11-2 ft. by 11-2 in., 1-nerved ; young petiole fur- 
furaceous, spines on the full-grown petiole 4 in. and upwards. Spadices 1-2 ft. ; 
spikes 6-10 in. by $ in. across the imbricating coriaceous spathels. Calyw acutely 
3-toothed ; corolla thrice as long. „Stamen free, filaments broad, erect. Fruit about 
1 in, long, ovoid-oblong, subtended by the spreading perianth; scales trapezoid, 
k brown with a yellow base. 
Var, B. COLLINA, Becc.; smaller, petiole with solitary or sparingly clustered 
spines, spadices shorter often depauperate shortly peduncled, tip not or shortly 
Cirrhiferous, fruit ellipsoid. C. collinus; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 31; 
Palms Brit. Ind. 39 (excl. leaf), t. 186 (spadix only).—Khasia hills. 
Var. y, MACROCARPA, Becc., fruits larger. C. macrocarpus, Griff. in Mart. l.c. 
338, t. 176, f. x. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 10, t. 186, A. f.i. ii. Walp. ll. cc. 484, 
Sikkim, Ze, 
2. €. flagellum, Grif. in Mart, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333, t. 176, f. ix. ; 
stem stout at length scandent, leaflets subopposite linear-lanceolate con- 
coloroug margins and midrib beneath remotely setulose, petiole furfuraceous 
rachis and peduncle of the spike and upper spathes armed with short 
recurved spines, leaf-sheaths scurfy bearing a clawed flagellum armed 
with long and short spines and bristles. Grif. Palme Brit. Ind. 48; 
Walp. Ann. iii, 484, v. 830; Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 8. C. 
Jenkinsianus, Griff. l. c. 40, t. 186 A., f. iii. (not 89). PC. polygamus, 
Roxb. FI. Ind. iii, 780, 
gn Hiwanaya, Assam, SinnET, and the Kuasta HILLS, ascending to 
Stem 1-1} in, diam eaves 6-7 ft.; leaflets 2-23 ft. by 1-1} in. broad, con- 
Con petiole GC Spathes tubular, lowest 1}-2 ft., compressed, upper 
li Spadiz 8-10 ft.; spikes 8-10 in., pendulous, unarmed; spathels very 
e C. erectus, Flowers iin. long, decurved. Caly 3-fid to the middle. oro la 
wice as long, Stamens free. Fruit 1 by $ in., ovoid-oblong, cuspidately benl ed, 
qbtended by the spreading perianth; scales deeply furrowed, pale with a dark ban 
own the middle, 
** Albumen equable. 
T Erect or scandent. No flagellum on leaf-sheath or spadix. 
Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 93; Palms 
3. €. arborescens, Grif. in Calc. rue 
dE losel tulose 
Widistant linear-lanceolate white beneath margins closely se , 
with beneath and sometimes above setose, petiole scurfy, armed 
" Per or half whorls of long flat blac 
Mart, HS, pendulous, spathels very short cl 
ond üi. 113; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, xhii.ii 
* C hostilis, Hort, Cale. 
