452 CLXII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Calamus. 
Grovur V. See p. 437. 
40. C. travancoricus, Beddome mss.; leaflets in distant opposite 
groups of 3-5 narrowly oblanceolate acuminate thin, costz 3 very dere 
naked above sparsely setulose beneath, rachis and petiole very slan 
armed with small straight and recurved spines, sheath armed. with slender 
straight flattened prickles, spadix long slender flagelliferous, inflorescenod 
shorter than the membranous flat spathes, male decompound, fem. Wé 
simple distichous spikes, upper spathes and spathels tubular obliques 
truncate, spathellules short acute, calyx strongly striate, corolla estria 
twice as long.—Rheede Hort. Mal. xii. t. 64. 
Deccan PENINSULA; from Malabar to Travancore, Wight, Beddome. broadest 
Stem very slender, scandent. Leaves 18-24 in.; leaflets 4-6 by i-$ m. x es 
about or above the middle and thence tapering to a capillary point, saining a ge) 
rachis scurfy when young; petiole 4—6 in., dorsally rounded, margins irr à 
compressed towards the base and there chiefly spiny. Spadia flagelliferous, 2 ower 
peduncle short, flattened, young white scurfy, margins shortly spiny. d into a 
spathes tubular, compressed at the base, with shortly spinous angles, produce boat 
long membranous sheathing lamina; upper with unarmed tubes. Inflorescences A at 
2 in. long, males with spreading very slender branches bearing short flezuous A ther 
capillary spikes of flowers } in. long; fem. with simple recurved spikes an ra 
larger flowers.—Rheede’s tigure is very good for its time. 
41. C. Rheedei, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 13; Pal med 
Ind. 36, 83; leaflets in very distant groups of 3 on a long „rachis “iting 
with scattered short recurved spines linear-lanceolate acuminate, frun rs 
spadix with the flat open acute spathes longer than the ovoid dense ? Palm. 
of ellipsoid or oblong fruit. Dsmonorops Rheedii, Mart. Hist. ele 
iii, 330; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 100; Walp. Ann. iii. 479, v. 828.— ^^ 
Hort. Mal. xii. t. 65. 
MALABAR, Rheede. eye 
_ Of this species nothing is known beyond Rheede's rude plate, which is vere the 
rior to that of C. travancoricus, from which it differs in the much longer $ 
leaflets being grouped in threes, one of each group apparently on one side 0 t 
and 2 on the other; four leaflets terminate the rachis. ‘The fruits are repre jamus 
$ in. long by à in. broad and very shortly beaked. Beccari thinks that a eede’s 
ait sent from Malabar to Kew by Major Campbell exactly corresponds to 
gure. ` 
Ims Brit. 
GnouP VI. See p. 438. 
ets many 
42. C. Kuegelianus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 338; leafl argins 
equidistant elongate ensiform acuminate strongly 3-costate, i«tlos on 
smooth unarmed above beneath pale and with a very few long br stou 
the lateral costæ, petiole stout young scurfy back rounded with vy e 
short recurved spines, sheath armed with very stout scattered Lon tont 
short spines, fem. spadix stout erect, spathes sparingly armed v stout, 
claws narrowly tubular truncate, fruiting branches 6-10 1n. very lobose 
spikes recurved, calvx pedicelled cupular with spreading lobes, abris alms 
black shining. Walp. Ann. ii. 488, v. 831. €. Wightii, Gn Im. 9297. 
Brit. Ind. 102, t. 216 C. C. melanolepis, H. Wendl. in Kerch. Fa"; i, 
Demonorops melanolepis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm iii. 331, t p 
942 under C. dioicus and tab. 116, f. xi. ; Walp. ll. cc. 481, and 825 
- adu vata 
Nirenuigi Ha: alt. 5-6000 ft., at Sisparah, Wight, &c.; at Nadu 
Gamble. , 
