Calamus.] CLXII PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 455 
Branches of fem, spadix 6-8 in., coarsely scabrid, bearing short alternate few-fid. 
spikes ; fruiting calyx peuicelled and pediceiliform, campanulate ; lobes as long as 
the tube and as the petals. Fruit nearly 1 by § in. diam., dirty yellow; scales 
margined with brown. Seed linear-oblong, transversely grooved; albumen not 
Tuminate; embryo in the middle of the back. 
Grour IX. See p. 438. 
49. C. tomentosus, Bece. mss.; sheath, rachis and flagellum softly 
almost flocculently white-tomentose, leaflets few distant or in distant pairs 
elliptic acuminate coriaceous strongly nerved, margin crisped or waved. 
Perax, Scortechini (431^) ; alt. 2500-3000 ft., King’s Collector (5332, 6993). 
Stem 20-40 ft., 3-3 in. diam., light grey. Leaves 2-3 ft.; leaflets 8-14 by 
in., base narrowed, green on both surfaces or yellowish beneath with brown stripes 
above ; herves flabellate; sheath unarmed, ochrea annular very coriaceous, acute 
posteriorly ; petiole short, very stout, subterete, armed with few distant 3-fid short 
claws ; flagellum 8-10 ft., ending in a long filiform prickly tip, armed with strong 
3-fid claws at about equal distances, towards the base the surface of the petiole is 
granulate when dry, A portion of a flowerless and fruitless spadix is terete with 
tubular spathes and bears distant spreading spikes 4 in. long, with rather distant 
Coriaceous subcampanulate spathels—A remarkable plant of which the specimens 
are very imperfect, The description of the stem and colour of the leaflet is from 
notes by King's Collector; the rest from his specimens, oue of which (5332), with 
Ai leaves is from Larut, “ within 300 ft.,” perhaps meant for 3000 (as iu 
Grove X. See page 438. 
90. ©. zeylanicus, Becc. mss.; leaflets many long equidistant ensi- 
form Ong acuminate -—5-costate, margins minutely setulose or naked, 
costae very 8paringly setose above naked beneath, rachis very stout, male 
Spadix decompound, lower spathe acute armed with very short scattered 
Prickles, upper striate smooth or sparsely aculeate, uppermost funnel-shaped 
truncate, branches of male spadix 6-10 in. clothed with short broad im- 
"cate spathels, spikelets very many distichous, spathellules extremely 
short and densely imbricate, fem. spikes and spikelets much longer and 
xer, fruit globose long-beaked. Ü. rudentum, Zhw. Enum, 330 (exel. 
Wi) (non Lour.) ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1874, 262. 
Cxvrox, Walker; Suffragam district, Thwaites (CP. 2874). . 
Very stout. a agam dies 4-5 ft. long; leaflets 13-2 ft. by 1-1} in., 
poth; rachis pale, finely scurfy, with short appressed marginal spines above an 
dënn with 3-fid claws beneath ; flagellum very stout, with very broad claws 
of “hate recurved black spines. ' Male spadi» with long spreading brauches 
clothed with short spathels and bearing short broad flat spikelets 3-1 in. long and ¢ 
of most densely imbricate short, spatbellules and small flowers } in, long. Fem. 
Padis; branch i ^. calyx sessile, very short, deeply 3-lobed ; 
fruiti 5 anc es and Spikes much longer; calyx » v +3 jn. dian), 
IL E Calyx sub-pedicelliform ; petals as long, both striare. ard globose ; 
liu Yellow; scales deeply channeled, margins scarious pale. 
men deeply ruminate, embryo lateral. 
9l. €, latifo Ind. iii. 7751; leaflets few large scattered 
or Znate elliptic er elliptic luacoolate 3-9-costate tips setose, margins 
bes ate, costa naked on both surfaces, rachis flagelliferous very stout 
ad Dr armed with scattered spines, sheath densely covered with very 
e broad whorled spines and a few very large straight flat solitary ir 
tled Ones, spadix decompound, spathes short subcompressed sparsely 
