Calamus.] OLXIII, PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 445 
Brit. 1nd. 66, t. 197 ; leaflets few inequidistant linear-lanceolate acuminate 
uppermost crowded at the end of the rachis and often connate, margins 
and coste beneath setulose, petiole lower spathe and rachis armed with 
very short stout and long scattered flattened pale spines, sheath densely 
armed with needle-like sete and Spines, spadix elongate decompound, 
internodes sheathed by truncate ciliate spathels, spikes short spreading 
and recurved, lower spathe very long keeled, fruit globose shortly beaked. 
Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iti. 337; Walp. Ann. iii. 487, v. 831. C. mish- 
mensis, Grif. U. ec. 55 and 65; Mart. L c., Walp. Ann. Ul. ce. QC. 
multiflorus, Mart.— Wall. Cat. n. 8613. 
D e SıLHET and the KnHasra Hrtts, Wallich, Ze,  MismMwi HILLS, 
, Stem as thick as the middle finger. Leaflets bright green, 10-18 by 1-1} in.; 
spines of rachis 3 1 in. long, rather flattened and deflexed. Lower spathe 18 in., . 
Corlaceous, terete, mouth very oblique. Spathels acuminate, and flowers almost 
floccose with long white hairs, striate. Flagelli with short or long simple or com- 
Pound recurved claws and spines. Fruit 4 in. diam.; scales very pale yellow, 
channelled down the back. 
20. C. pseudo-tenuis, Bece. mss. ; leaflets many equidistant linear- 
lanceolate minutely setulose on the margins setose or not on the 3 costae 
neath, rachis (young brown scurfy) armed with strong flattened straight 
and short recurved spines, sheath densely armed with flattened spreading 
pale spines, Spadix very long decompound, spikelets very short decurved, 
male flowers and spathellules minute quite glabrous, fruit small ovoid 
Strongly beaked. C. tenuis, Thw. Enum. 330 (not of Rozb.). 
CEYLON; in the hotter parts of the island. Dgccan PENINSULA; on the 
ESTERN Guats; from Canara southwards. 
Stem slender. Leaflets 10-18 by $-$ in. upper free; rachis rather stout; 
Petiole short; sheath i in. diam. Spathes flattened, lower 2-edged; spathels 
elongate, Spadix 2-3 ft., branches 6-10 in.; spikes of male fl. very short, of fruits 
m. Male fl, yl; in. long, shining, not striate. Fruit 3 in. diam. ; scales rounded, 
Pale with broad brown margins.— Readily distinguished from viminalis by the equi- 
‘ant leaflets, glabrous spathellules, and ovoid fruit.—A plant collected by Talbot 
hear the seashore at Marmagoa, Bombay, seems a very different plant, has black 
tipped claws on the rachis of the leaf and spadix and flagellum, and curved male 
flowers } in, long.—J. D. H. 
21. €. densiflorus, Bece. mss.; leaves very shortly petioled, leaflets 
many equidistant linear-ensiform finely acuminate concolorous upper 
Stadually smaller terminal very short margins setulose coste 3 all 
*PInulose above and sparsely setulose on the middle one only beneath, 
Sheath strongly armed with pale flat horizontal spines, spadix very long, 
spikes elongate dense-fld., spathels and spathellules scabridly pubescent, 
ut small beaked ovoid. 
PERAK ; at Thaipi zing’s Collector (8434, 5527). 
13- s scandent, Lean po ger) the lector (S Leaflets rigidulous, larger 
l4 by about i in.; sheath with a long stout clawed flagellum, gibbous above, 
mouth truncate ; rachis armed with strong claws. Spadix 5 ft., stout, clawed. 
abrous truncate. Spikes 
ver spathe strictly sheathing, prickly ; upper unarmed gl 1 : 
` "3 10. : spathels “and spathellules Very short, striate. Fruit immature, with a 
ey Pedicelliform perianth, about } in. diam ; scales scarcely channelled, pale 
"ined with brown,—I have seen no specimens, J. D. H. 
22. e. luridus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets rather numerous equidistant remote 
