Calamus.] CLXII. PALMER, (Beccari & Hook. f.) 453 
, Apparently a stout scandent species. Leaflets 12-16 by 3-1 in., tips spinelosely 
Date, margins below obscurely aculeolate, pale green, not shining, almost white 
beneath, the very distant bristles on the lateral nerves beneath sometimes absent, 
at others nearly 4 in. long; rachis and petiole pale. Fruit 2-$ in. diam., very 
shortly beaked ; scales subacute, with fimbriate margins, not channelled; fruiting 
calyx nearly 4 in. diam. ; petals acute. 
43. C. Gamblei, Becc. mss.; leaflets as in C. Huegelianus, but with 
shorter scattered bristles on the 3 costs of the lower surface and a few on 
e upper, fruiting spikes of the spadix recurved, calyx cupular long- 
pedicelied, lobes very short, fruit globose or broadly obovoid, scales pale 
Jellow acute deeply chanuelled. 
Nivenrri Hiis; Makurti forests, alt. 5000 ft., Gamble. 
A very distinct species differing from Huegelianus by the longer leaflets, 2-23 ft., 
the more slender Spathellules, longer pedicel of the more campanulate calyx which 
as shorter lobes, and by the pale fruit with deeply chaunelied scales,—A variety 
With spherical fruit is mentioned by Beccari. 
Daer VIL. See p. 438. 
44. C. gracilis, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 781 (excl. Syn. Hort. Ma!.); leaflets 
few in Opposite groups of 3-5 on each side of the slender rachis elliptic- 
anceolate acuminate 3-7-costate, costes very slender more or less setose 
above, petiole short and rachis and sheath armed with short hooked spines, 
em. spadix elongate slender drooping flagelliferous spathes tubular 
qeuminate sparingly spinous, upper unarmed, spathels not imbricate, 
muting calyx sessile shortly cylindric, lobes very short, fruit oblong, scales 
5; y Pale ripe channelled. ` Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 338; Kunth Enum. 
p.39; Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 54; Palms Brit Ind. 64, t. 196; 
Co lp. Ann iii, 488, v. 831; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. 212, 
AC; For. Fl. ii. 520. 
K The Knasra HILLS, ascending to 4000 ft.; UPPER Assam, Mann. CACHAR, 
^ t CuirrAGONG, Kurz. . 
5-7; ender, scandent ; naked stem not thicker than a quill. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 
petiole” margins obscurely bristly except at the tip where the bristles are long ; 
ga © Very short and rachis fugaciously scurfy ; sheaths green, glabrou-. Spathes 
el Clously brown-scurfy ; spathels unarmed. Corolla three times as long as the 
be Fruit 3 in, long; scales straw-cold. with or without a narrow brown border ; 
iting calyx pedicelliform. Seed wriukled.— Descript. chiefly from Kurz. 
(in 45. €. melanacanthus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 333, t. 116, f. 13 
Part) ; leaflets many equidistant membranous linear with capillary t'ps 
rach? Upper much shorter, shortly setose or naked on the costw beneath, 
wh 8 with a single row of short recurved black spines, sheath with sub- 
sh Zei Spines, fem. spadix decompound ending iu a flagellum, spathes 
wad Sparsely spinous upper nearly unarmed, fruiting calyx sessile cam- 
chat? Pedicelliform, fruit ellipsoid shortly beaked, scales very pale 
Nat. paed, embryo lateral. Kunth Enum. iii. 211; Griff. in Cale Journ. 
n ut, v. 49; Palms Brit. Ind. 59; Walp. Ann. iii. 484, v. 830; Miq. 
Beng t Bet. lii 119; Palm. Archip. Ind. 27; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
m. 11. 215, t, xx. B.—Wail. Cat. 8606 B. 
®NASSERIM . at Ch alli 
apnedong, Wallich. . .. . 
nak d'Dier, Leajlets 6-13 by 4 in., upper 2-3 in., shining, tip s 
Reyish Coroila hardly longer than the (fruiting) calyx-lobes. Fruit i 
Yellow with very narrow brown margins; lobes very short. 
s sparsely bristly or 
in. long, 
Albumen 
