Calamus.] CLXIII, PALMES. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 447 
** Fruiting perianth distinctly pedicelliform. 
26. C. tenuis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 780; leaflets very many equidistant 
uppermost gradually smaller linear-lanceolate acuminate 3 cost all setose 
above, the median only below, petiole short margined with straight 
spines and rachis armed with one row of short recurved spines, 
sheaths flagelliferous sparingly armed with short flat spines, spadix very 
ong decompound flagelliferous, spathes elongate tubular lower with a 
short limb and scattered recurved spines, partial short unarmed young 
scurfy, spathellules densely crowded cymbiform, flowers very small, fruit 
subglobose, Kunth Enum. iii. 211; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. (Ed. 1, 
212), 335 ; Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 46; Palms Brit. Ind. 57, t. 
193 A, B,C; alp. Ann. ii. 485, v. 830; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 118; 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. 212, t. 31 B; For. Fl. ii. 520. C. 
Royleanus, Griff. ll. cc. 40 and 53, t. 191; Mart. Le 335; Walp. ll. cc. 
485 and 830. Č. amarus, Lour. i. 210. C. Heliotropium, Herb. Ham. ; 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, BENGAL, AssAM, SILHET, 
HITTAGONG and BURMA.—DISTRIB. Cochin. 
tems very long, scandent ; internodes not thicker than a goose-quill. Leaves 
1-2 ft. ; leaflets approximate, lower 8-12 by 3-3 in., margins minutely setulose or 
spinulose, bristles on costs lin.; petiole pale, stout; spines with broad laterally 
compressed conical bases; flagelli filiform. Lower spathes 6-10 in. by nearly $ in.diam., 
nppe r shortly scurfy. Lower spikes panicled, 15-4 in. long. Male fl. j; in. long, 
not distichous and spreading but secund in 3-4 series, imbricating, suberect. Fruit 
,I. diam., mucronate ; Scales pale with a shallow median channel and very narrow 
loured margins, 
à 27. C. diffusus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets many equidistant rigidulous upper 
Shorter narrowly linear-lanceolate very long-acuminate margins naked 
slightly thickened, cost; 3 setose above the median spinulose beneath, 
rachis armed throughout with half whorls of hooked spines or 3-fid claws, 
male spadix diffusely supra-decompound, branches of partial infi. spirally 
mserted, lower spathe tubular green smooth coriaceous armed with hooked 
Spines on the outer surface, upper tubular-infundibular unarmed, spathels 
xi broad, flowers rather distant, calyx campanulate striate, corolla twice 
ng 
SINGAPORE; Lobb, 
Caves apparently 2-3 ft.; leaflets 10-12 by 4-3 in. Male spikelets 1-2 in.; 
aech crowded, distichous, &-i in. long; spathellules and calyx strongly ribbed ; 
rolla twice as long as the calyx, not striate.—Fem. fl. and fruit unknown, position 
ence uncertain, 
Du c. Rotang, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 1, 325; Ed. 2, 463 (the Ceylon 
H only); leaflets many equidistant linear-ensiform rarely subaggregate 
bee sma ‘er, margins spinulose, petiole very short or 0, rachis armed 
tih With short stout uniseriate claws, sheath armed with short 
8 meet Conical based scattered spines, male spadix slender decompound, 
ee 4-1 in. recurved, spathellules short, flowers crowded, corolla 
g py striate, fem. spikelets much stouter and longer, flowers distant, fruit 
t Gm Very pale. Win. Sp. Pl. iii. 202 (excl. Syn. Lour.); Lamk. Ill. 
Pitta, fl; Schult. f. Syst. Veg. vii. ii. 1322 (excl. all cit. but Linn. & 
Kunth Rogb. Fi. Ind. iii. 777 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 334, t. 116, £.8; 
Enum. iii, 207 ; Blume Rumph. iii. 33; Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830; 
