450 oan, PALMEX, (Beccari & Hook. f) [Calamus 
costes almost unarmed, rachis armed with straight and recurved gien, 
solitary and binate spines with swollen bases, sheath armed with N rg 
set straight subulate spines, male spadix long very slender sparsely shortly 
armed, inflorescences short subsessile paniculately branched, spikelets vey 
short few-fld. upper spathes with very short sheaths and flat eo: e 5 
laminæ, spathellules very short acute, corolla twice as long as t Tr dech 
not striate. Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 15; Palms Brit. 8610. 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 214. C. polyspathos, Wall. Ce. Tod. 
Dsemonorops platyspathus, Mart. l. c. Ed. 2, 200, 929; Mig. P^. 17% 
Bat. ii. 99; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828. 
TENASSERIM, at Tavov, Gomez, ng pale 
Leaflets 10-12 by 1-1} in., rigid, margins bristly towards the apex, you U per 
softly scurfy beneath, margins thickened with obscure distant asperities. ua 
spathes 3-4 by 1-2 in., flat. Inflorescences of male spadix as long as tbeir P inting 
very compound ; spikelets 1—3 in. Flowers ṣọ in. long, pale, close-set, po 
forwards. Calyx sharply toothed, striate. Fem. spadiz and fruit unknown. 
35. C. paspalanthus, Becc. mss.; leaflets equidistant de gl v3 
narrow finely acuminate 3-costate coste closely spinulose bene arm 
remotely above, margins nearly smooth, petiole very long white scurly 
below with flat appressed long and short spines, rachis brown lower 
rounded beneath with short recurved single and trifid spine, erect 
spathe very long tubular armed with short spires, male spadix n dee 
decompound with erect branches and very short lacerate spathe gh os 
erect very dense-fld., spathellules closely imbricating lunate very P 
nerved, flowers minute. 
PERAK ; at Goping, King’s Collector (577).— D1sTRIB. Borneo. 
Leaves not flagelliferous ; leaflets 4-10 by 4 in., shining, strict; 
2 ft., white, but covered with a fine brown scurf when young; sheath 
Bradie quite unlike any other, from the upright branches and spikes, an Panicum; 
short membranous spathels. Spikes 4—4 in., strict, like those of some ding hori* 
spathellules very peculiar, flabellately nerved. Male fl. distichous, PFCorolla not 
zontally, 3 in. long. Calye cupular, striate, broadly obtusely lobed. pave seen 0 
twice as long; petals broadly elliptic, obtuse, obscurely striate.—I k by Lobb, 
complete spathe. Described from Borneo specimens collected at Sarawa not seen). 
which Beccari says are identical with those from Perak (which I have, spadit- 
He adds that its affinities are uncertain, and it is perhaps allied to C. leptosp 
“st. v. 195 
36. C. ramosissimus, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. Y 
. ‘form OF 
Palms Brit. Ind. 87, t. 207; leaflets very large scattered perle " 
long straight 
wi 
flat and many small spines, rachis very stout back rounded armed Za 
broad short recurved solitary and 2-3-nate claws, male tet mentose, 
decompound erect densely branched, peduncle very stout , kl coria- 
branches and spikes erecto-patent, spathes very large blade thie dy ith 
ceous lower with a spinous tube, upper open, fem. spadix furfurat gem oD 
very stout simple spikes, spathellules of both sexes very short. Ind. Bat. 
rops ramosissimus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, iii. 330; Miq. ^^ 
petiole about 
fla elliferous- 
Hi dilacerate 
(51°, 1235); 
n, gom 
leaflets 18-24 by 13-2 in., 7-13-costate, almost plicate ; rachis As thick as V + of 
