444 Cem, PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Calamus. 
i igi i l alone sparsely 
cost beneath armed with rigid bristles, the central a . 
setulose above, rachis armed beneath and at the margins ms ies 
hooked scattered spines, sheath densely armed with scatter 
lower spathe densely armed upper and spathels finely scabrid, spadices very 
long. 
Perak ; Scortechini (468) ; Goping, King’s Collector (8171). . ; 
A lofty climber ; Has arith the sheaths 1-1} in. diam. Leaves 2-24 f ; p» 
leaflets 18 by 1 in., upper much shorter and shortly connate at e gege 
spathe elongate-tubular, with short spines on the outer faces, uppe s very long, 
scurfy with a lacerate mouth. Spadiw with the partial inflorescences vey Well 
bearing many recurved spikelets. Fruit small, pisiform, t Ch leaflets, and 
characterized by the armature of the sheath, the naked margins of the 
the scabridity of a portion of the spadix. 
T DBecc. 185.5 
17. C. viminalis, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. I. 203 ; var. FASCICULATUS, Sé 
stem rather stout, leaflets many inequidistant or fascicled 3-costate, margin 
D 
Mart. 
As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 210, t. 27 B; For. Fl. ii. 517. C. extensus, tus). 
1. c. iii, 210, Kd. 1, partly, t. 116, £. iv. 1 (reduced in Ed. 2 to fora to 
C. Pseudo-Rotang, Mart. l. c. 209, Ed. 1, t. 116, £. vi. (reduce * Brit. Ind. 
fasciculatus); Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 42; Palms 
53; Kunth Enum. iii. 207.— Wall. Cat. 8608, 8611. 
A, the 
Lower BENGAL, Orissa, and the CARNATIC, CHITTAGONG, Behe type 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS and Penance, Wail.—DisrRiB. Cochin China. ( 
Malay Islands.) 4-10 by 
A stout scrambling and climbing species. Leaves 2-3 D: leaflets sort an 
3-4 in., pale green, young and rachis and sheath white-floccose, pe ed athe 
rachis very stout, spines slender 3-1} in. long, pale hardly P See? Spadi? 
coriaceous, mouth obliquely truncate; flagelli with hooked 2-3-fi Chels) ibd 
and its spreading branches rather stout, internodes (and truncate spa middle. 
Fruit 4-4 in. diam. ; scales pale yellow, obscurely channelled down the 
em- 
18. ©. concinnus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 332; erect OF Tassy 
less ?, leaflets many subequidistant linear-lanceolate acumina d spadix 
. ines, 
rusty tomentose sparingly armed with short stout straight deflexed spines, 
spadix stout decompound, spathes loose coriaceous armed with 5 ruit small 
ong acuminate, spathels annular, 899; Grif. 
globose beaked. Kunth Enum. iii. 207 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 483, v. Journ. j 
m Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 49 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 59; Kurz ™ 
s.. +s 
5). 
TENASSERIM, Wallich ; at Mergui, Helfer (Kew distrib. 6388, 6394, 639 ) both 
i on 
Leaflets in the only specimens I have seen 10-18 by l-l}, very shining 
surfaces. Fruit } in. diam. 
. . Palms 
19. C. floribundus, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat, Hist. v. ss P 
