446 OLXII. PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Calamus. 
elongate ensiform acuminate with 3 strong coste beneath, terminal pair 
shortly adnate below, margins and coste beneath more or less setalose, 
sheath closely armed with long flat horizontal unequal spines, spadix very 
long ending in a flagellum paniculately branched, lower spathes tuboi 
strictly sheathing spiny on the outer side, upper smooth striate, frui 
globosely ovoid. 
PERAK, summit of Gunong, Scortechini; Malacca and Larut, King’s Collector 
(2647, 6284, 6400, 7203). . . : 
Stem slender, ’ scandent. Leaflets 14-16 by 1} in.; petiole 4-6 in. eeng 
8-12 in.; spikelets 14-2} in. Calyx tube short, corolla rather longer. 1 4 
perianth very shortly pedicelliform, strongly striate.—I have seen no specimens. 
J. D. H. 
23. C. delicatulus, Thw. Enum. 330, 431; leaflets very many Se? 
distant linear-lanceolate finely acuminate margins and 3 coste sels 1 
petiole very short shortly spiny, rachis brown-scurfy when young pode 
sheath densely armed with short and long slender black flattened P inte 
male spadix very long filitorm decompound, spathes unarmed long-et 
at the tip, spikes very slender, flowers rather distant very minute. 
CEYLON ; at Galle and Hinidoon Pattoo, Thwaites. ller, tips 
Leaves 2-8 ft. Leaflets 8-10 by + in., concolorous, shining, upper sma ee j 
filiform; flagellum very long, slender, clawed. Fruit about 4 in. diam., eran us 
with a very narrow brown border.— Very near C. Helferianus, but the leaflets 
not aggregate, the spikelets more slender, and flowers smaller. 
24. C. Helferianus, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. 11. 213; m 
Fl. 521; leaflets many scattered inequidistant in series of 2-8 on SS de 
narrowly linear finely acuminate 3-costate margins and lateral coste à Ke 
and median beneath setulose, rachis slender 3-gonous armed wit erg 
scattered recurved spines, spadix long very slender compound gla ory 
spathes narrow tubular compressed and truncate partial sparingly 5 de 
spiny or unarmed, spikes 13-3 in., male spathellules very short crow 
fem. more remote, corolla twice as long as the stamens not striate. 
TENASSERIX (or the Andaman Islands), Helfer (6389 3, 6392 2). 
Sparingly armed. Stem slender, scandent. Leaves without flagel k: rach 
8-12 by $-$ in., concolorous, uppermost quite free, costæ 3—5 strong beneat ot seen. 
with naked intervals sometimes 4 in. long, on one or both sides ; sheath ` imp 8, 
Spadix several feet long, flexuous, as thick as a sparrow-quill ; upper spike com 
lower panicled, males shortest and more slender. Lower spathe long, narrows long. 
pressed, with a short erect limb and short spines on the keels, partial 14-1 in. ton 
Spathellules of male fl. very short and crowded, of fem. + in. long. Male fe 
Jong, calyx 3-fid. Fruit unknown. 
leaflets 
his 
25. C. nicobaricus, Becc.; leaflets very many equidistant linea" 
ensiform long-acuminate sparsely setose on the median costa only d with 
surfaces lateral cost: slender naked, petiole channelled above IT, very 
long straight marginal spines and short claws on the back, shea g an 
pale at first scurfy densely armed with very unequal long fat spine 
short claws. 
NICOBAR ISLANDS, E. H. Man. ts 7-88 
A very slender species, with varnished internodes 1—i in. diam. Leaft edingly 
by about iin. shiniug above. Spadiz and fruit unknown.  Flagelli exc? 
slender.—A ppears to be allied to C. delicatulus, from which it is distingu’ jmen. 
bx ran being setose only on the median costa.—I have seen 2° , 
