440 CLXIIT. PALMEEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Calamus. 
Dron: in marshy places, Griffith. 
Stem 15-20 ft., dy in. A internodes 7 in., crown densely leafy. mm 
5-6 ft., decurved leaflets 8-18 in. by 1-1} broad; petiole naked except ahve 
usually very black spines j-2 in. long. Lower spathes with many! d Bio ée 
short black spines; upper short, unarmed. ` Spadices longer than o ez d p 
graceful; spikes 4-6 in. long by Ẹ in. across the flowers, which are nearly 3 Sange 
curved. Calyx trifid to the middle. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute. 
shortly monadelphous. 
4. C. castaneus, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 28; ae? 
Brit. Ind. 37, t. 185 A, B,C; stem very short stout, leaves ver , 
leaflets very many equidistant linear 3-costate margins and D mme 
remotely prickly, petiole very stout and short, sheaths ipi t fattened 
unequal scattered solitary or 2-3-nate rather short straight s out ea saN 
pale spines, spadices erect or nodding very stout nearly Nat. Palm. fii 
decompound, spathels very short and broad. Mart. Hist. at. 
331; Walp. Ann. iii. 482 ; v. 829; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 112. vu 
MALACCA, Grifith, Maingay (Kew Distrib, 1533); PERAK at Gopung, n 
Collector (5880). : -15 ft.; 
Stem £ " with the sheaths 3-4 in. diam. Leaves with the petiole 12 whic 
leaflets 12-24 by 1-24 in., very dark green, young scurfy beneath ; Weg enerally 
as the little finger, rounded with a channelled upper surface. Spathes g 
unarmed. Spadices 2-3 ft., male panicled, elongate flexuous, fem. uch large» 
as broad as long, simply branched; spikes of male 2-3 in., of ds middle. 
scorpioidly recurved, 4 in. broad. Male fl. iin. long. Calyx trifi F Wi 1 in. long, 
Petals hardly longer. Stamens inflexed in bud. Fem, jl. larger. ked scales in 
ellipsoid, embraced at the base by the erect perianth; strongly beaked, 
24-26 rows, minute, dark brown. 
"o lied 
5. ©. Griffithianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332; closely $ the 
to C. castaneus, and dwarf like it, in the leaflets spadices, &C« lobose 
petioles are described as terete, and the fruits are larger p^ s 8 j 
with fewer (18-20) rows of larger scales. Walp. Ann. 11. Cale Journ. 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 112, C. castaneus (partly) Grif. in Cw 
Nat. Hist. v. 29. C. castaneus, var. a Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 38. 
Maracca, Griffith. PERAK, King’s Collector (3040, 3048). 
Probably only a form of castaneus. 
; often 
tt Scandent, stout. Leaf:sheath flagelliferous. Spadix long, d 
flagelliform. Spikelets much flattened. 
. aa. Palms 
6. C. longisetus, Griff in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 36; Pate 
Brit. Ind. 44, t. 189 A, B ; scandent or erect ? glabrous, leaflets e and be- 
concolorous, lower fascicled 9-costate, margins and midrib above ‘ole an 
neath and lateral nerves beneath setulose, terminal connate, Wer whorls 
its sheath and lower spathes densely armed with whorls and h yrter ones; 
of straight black flattened spines intermixed with scattered 8 A gpathe's 
male spadices decompound nodding, upper spathes unarmed, ery stom 
densely imbricate truncate, fruit ovoid-oblong narrowed into a 830. ij. 
beak. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 333; Walp. Ann. iii. 483; V- xliii. 3 
Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 114. O. tigrinus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
211, t. xxiv. xxvi. ; For. Fl. ii. 519. aos, and 
Prev, Hort. Bot. Cale., Grif. (Kew Distrib. 6392), McLelland; BORN® 
the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. . , Jeaflets 142 
Stem upwards of 1 in, diam, Leaves 4-8 ft., rachis not flagelliferous ; 
