Calamus.] CLXHL PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 441 
ft. by 1-2 in.; petiole and rachis pale, smooth, except for the spines; sheaths 
very strongly armed. Male spadix slender, branched, fem. much stouter and 
shorter. Lower spathes elongate, tubular, compressed, strongly armed, upper short, 
lacerate; spathels densely imbricate, scurfy, truncate, often lacerate. Fruit 1 in. 
stipitate by the erect perianth ; scales 4 in. long and broad, flat, thin, yellowish 
with a very broad lunate brown band across the middle and fimbriate margins (the 
whole fruit banded like a tiger-skin).—Griffith describes longisetus as erect, and 
Kurz tigrinus as scandent. 
7. C. Thwaitesii, Becc.; differs from C. longisetus in the rachis of 
the petiole bearing very stout recurved claws with black tips, the upper 
spathes bearing scattered spinescent tubercles, and in the smaller fruits 
with fewer paler tumid scales erose or the margin channelled down the 
centre and with a narrow brown marginal band. C. longisetus, Thw. 
Enum. 330 (not of Griff). 
CEYLON ; in the Central Province, Thwaites. Canara, Ritchie, Talbot. 
A Canara plant collected by Ritchie and Talbot, probably belongs here, the 
fruit is exactly similar to that of the Ceylon plant. 
ttt Scandent, slender. Leaf-sheaths flagelliferous. Spikelets short, 
scorpioid, 
8. C. leptospadix, Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 49; Palms 
Brit. Ind. 60, t. 194 A, B, C ; leaflets very many close-set narrowly linear 
acuminate, margin and sometimes the 3 cost; beneath setulose or aculeo- 
late, petiole terete and scurfy rachis with distant straight flattened 
Spines and a few short claws at the base, sheath short scurfy sparingly 
armed, spadices very long slender pendulous, with very many distichous 
short recurved spines, lower spathes long slender densely armed with flat 
thin spikes and minute recurved ones upper shorter unarmed, flowers small, 
fruit small globose mucronate. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 335, f.i; 
alp. Ann, ii, 485; v. 483. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 8. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H., &c.; Kuasta Hiris, Grifith, &c.; MUNNIPORE 
and Naga Hiris, Watt. : . 
Stem slender, scandent. Leaves 3-4 ft.; leaflets 8-10 by 3-4 in., thin, pale 
green ; rachis armed with simple recurved spines. Apathes very slender, tubular, 
Spadices several feet long, branched, below and armed with hooked short spines, 
ranches very long and slender, with 20-40 recurved spikelets 3-1 in. long, and ¢ in. 
Jam, flagellum of spadix very long, armed with 1-3-fid recurved claws, Spathels 
fupular, acute membranous. Male jl. à in. long; calyx 3-fid to the middle; petals 
wice as long. Fruit } in. diam., subtended by the spreading perianth ; scales very 
Small, broad, yellow with a red-brown margin. 
t e c. rivalis, Thw. ex Trimen in Journ. Bot. xxiii. (1885), 268 ; (Err. 
JP. nivalis); habit of C. leptospadiz, leaflets numerous equidistant 
lnear-lanceolate setulose on the margins and three costæ beneath, sheaths 
Coptously armed with straight flat pale spines, rachis with recurved ones, 
Spadices very ] ith short recurved spines and ter- 
: y long slender armed with shor 
Ininated þ i short distant recurved, 
Y a clawed flagellum, spikes very many fruit small ovoid 
ewer Spathes or all armed with very short prickles, 
aked. C, rudentum, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 340 (non Lour.). 
CEYLON; Walker, & 
aves about 3 ft long, leaflets 12-18 by 3-3 in., broader and more coriaceous than 
` longisetus; rachis scurfy. Spathels very obliquely cup-shaped, coriaceous. 
Male A crowded, calyx trifid to the middle. Petals and stamens stipitate. Fem. fl. 
