Calamus.] CLXHI PALMEX, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 449 
inflorescence sheathed un to the spikelets, fruit obovoid or globose shortly 
beaked brown. Mart. Hist Nut. Palm. iii. 333, t. 176, f. vi.; Walp. Aun. 
in, 484, v. 830. C. montanus, Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 9. 
EASTERN NEPAL, SIKKIM and BHorAN HIMALAYA, ascending to 6000 ft., 
J. D. H., te KHasIA HILLS, alt. 2-4090 ft., Griffith, Ze, 
Stem slender, scandent, as thick as a swan’s quill. Leaves 2-3 ft.; leaflets 
19-16 by 2-3 in., margins naked or spinulose, both surfaces quite naked or very 
rarely with a few small spines on the costæ of the upper surface ; flagellum of the 
sheath 10-12 ft. Spadix 4-6 ft., erect, armed with short recurved spines ; branches 
of fruiting spadix very stout; spikes 1-4 in., strongly recurved. Lower spathe 1 ft., 
seurfy, as thick as the thumb; uppermost glabrous. Fruit 2 in. diam., pericarp 
thin; scales chesnut brown, obscurely channelled, shining; fruiting calyx large, 
cupalar, à in. diam., lobes very short. Seed deeply pitted. 
GrovrIV. See p. 437. 
82. €. Guruba, Ham. in Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 206 and 330, 
t. 175, f. l; leaflets alternate equidistant narrowly linear, margins 
and 3 costæ above setose midrib usually alone setose beneath, long 
slender petiole and rachis armed with long brown recurved and short 
conical spines below and on the margins, sheaths flagelliferous covered 
mth long flattened spines and crowded smaller ones, spathes glabrous 
tube of lower compressed margins with long spines back with short ones, 
limb recurved, upper spathes nearly unarmed, male spadix elongate very 
slender A pound, spikes spreading very slender, spathellules very 
ET flowers distichous pointing forwards, fruit pisiform apiculate. 
Gng. ^ Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 42; Palms Brit. Ind. 54; Kunth 
559 Hi. 210; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii, 214; For. Fl. ii. 
Gei C. Mastersianus, Grif. Il. cc. 76 and 84. t. 206. Demonorops 
ü Vi: Mart. l e. 380; Walp. ll. cc. 479 and 828; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
Besear, Assam, the Kniet Hits, SILHET, CHITTAGONG and BURMA. 
all, scandent, stem without the sheaths very slender, Leaves 5-6 ft.; leaflets 
With (e? in., Upper smaller free, sometimes quite naked on both surfaces ; sheath 
lon ` long memb:anous lacerate ligule. Spathes with terete tubular bases an 
LM thinly coriaceous obtuse brown laminæ, of the lower 12-18 long by A à 
lules flagellum very stout and stoutly armed. Male spikes 2-3 in., flexuous ; spathel- 
l very small membranous cups. Flowers i in. long, calyx striate ; corolla twice 
ong, polished, Pruit iin. diam., abruptly beaked ; scales very pale, obscurely 
elled, margin brown. 
ui. C. nitidus, Mart, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 334; leaflets equidistant 
A Done Close set linear-lanceolate acuminate shining margins thickened, 
comp, Setulose on both surfaces or on the upper only, rachis with simple or 
glo nd recurved spines, spadices decompound, spathes glabrous, fmit 
Gei : Scales brown in the middle 17-18-seriate. Kunth Enum. in. 
i. i Cale, Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 49; Palms Brit. Ind. 59; Miq. Fl. 
SC ii. 117; Walp. Ann. iii. 484; v. 8305 Wall. Cat. 8009. 
e SERIN, Wallich distrib. (6390, 6396, 6398). 
6-7 wéi near to and probably Lat tinct from os Guruba, but the leaflets are shorter 
i d 11., and the flowers smaller, about Ae in. long.— The specimens are very 
diet ae spathus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 210; leaflets few 
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