Calamus.] CLXIII. PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 443 
basal pair reflexed on the sheath, petiole very short and rachis armed with 
Short, scattered recurved spines, sheath with short straight spines, spadix 
very long slender, fruit small subglobosely ovoid shortly beaked, scales 
m 17-18 series. ?C. penicillatus, Roch, Fl. Ind. iii. 781. 
Penang and the MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, alt. 300-3500 ft., King’s Collector 
(1996 9 , 2673 (7). . 
Stem 10-25 ft., with the leaf-sheaths as thick as the little finger, scandent. 
Lewes 13-2 ft. ; leaflets 8-10 by 14-23 in., often opposite, the upper pair free or 
confluent, margins and costze beneath quite smooth ; sheaths and their short spines 
€. Spadices very long and slender and long slender spathes armed with small 
200 ed spines ; spikes 2-3 in., slender, + in. across the flowers; spathels densely 
imbricate, shallow, acute, striate and subscabrid ; flowers 3 in. long. Calyz 3-fid to 
the middle, Corolla not striate; segments narrow. Scales in 12-18 series.— 
‘Javensis is, as its name implies, a Javan species. 
Subvar, polyphyllus, Becc. ; as above, but leaflets 8-12 subequidistant, basal 
refered or spreading.— Perak, summit of Gunong Tambang Betall, Scortechini 
(657^) ; King's Collector (6312). . . 
ubvar, intermedius, Becc.; as above, but more slender, and with fewer inequi- 
nt leaflets, Perak, Scortechint (236). 
Subvar. tenuissimus, Becc.; very slender, leaflets fewer (3-4) remote longer, 
Petiole longer, fruit elliptic-obovoid moderately beaked, scales more than 15-seriate. 
—Perak, summit of Gunong Tambang Batok, Scortechini (648). 
ubvar, ? purpurascens, Becc.; like the type, but leaflets few large basal much 
c Sheath moderately spiny.— Penang, Curtis. Perak, King’s Collector 
Rubrar. ? penangiana, Becc. ; as in purpurascens, but sheath with strong spines, 
_~ ang. 
H. c. filipendulus, Becc. mss. 
Pera 3 Scortechini, 232b; King's Collector (5659, 5773, 8019). . . 
D have seen no specimens of this species, and fail to draw up a diagnosis of it as 
3 ‘nguished from C. javensis, from Beccari’s notes, except as regards the fruit 
al ich he describes as ovoid.conie about } in. long, gradually narrowed into a very 
sder acute beak terminated by the recurved stigmas and with the scales in only 
C Series, The terminal pair of leaflets are confluent, as they are sometimes in 
* Javensis, 
at d er many, narrowly ensiform ; upper distinct or hardly connate 
15. c. rugosus, Bece. mss.; stem very slender, leaves long-petioled, 
leaflets y i i 
A lanceolate finely acuminate 
3.00 ery many equidistant narrowly : v lender 
State, upper pair quite free, petiole rachis and spadix ye hort 
sed With few s i heath arme 
i . cattered short recurved spines, shea 1 
8pi E spines, spadices filiform, branches very distant with few slender 
Pines, spathels scabrid. 
Prax: S . 
3 Scortechini. . 
Stem with the sheaths } in. diam. Leaflets 7-8 by about 3 in., concolorous, 
Setulose on i d he median beneath, petiole 
5-7 in, sne margins and 3 costa above and only on the flat, others minute and 
Seriate.” margins acute ; sheath gibbous above, larger spines 
i id.—I have seen no 
specimen. 7 ft 2 lower prickly, upper and spathels scabrid.—l hav 
16. c. radulosus, Becc. mss.; stem slender, leaves sessile, leaflets very 
Y narrowly ensiform equidistant concolorous, margins naked, 3-costate 
