456 CLXIII. PALMEÆ®. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Calamus. 
spinous mouth oblique, spathels short, male spikes densely imbricate, gere 
calyx sessile, pedicelliform broadly campanulate lobes short, frui Au 
globose pale. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 339, t. 160, f. 5: Griff. is P 
Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 60; Palms Brit. Ind. 68, t 198 (eal. fi E 
Malab.); Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. 210 (excl. t. 31 4 PRA 
Fl. ii. 518 (partim). C. macracanthus et inermis, T. Anders. in . 
Linn. Soc. xi. 10, 11 ; ? C. humilis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 773. 
From the Sikkim HIMALAYA and Assam, ascending to 2000 ft., to avery e 
Stem stout, 1-2 ft., as thick as the thumb. Leaves with the flagellum 10- : i 
leaflets 1-2 ft. by 1-23 in., upper sometimes flabellately clustered or connate mh ing 
base; cross nervules very many and close; petiole short or long, weieen sooner 
the leaflets only far up the flagellum ; base sometimes 2 in. broad, smoot A on aa 
spines very various always scattered. Spadix very large; spathes and ) nearly 
usually armed with scattered very short broad spines. Fruit (not quite ripe) el 
1 in. long, rather narrower, pale dull yellow ; scales convex, deeply founde d on 
shining, margin very narrowly scarious.— C. humilis, Roxb., is probably 
a very young plant of C. latifolius with undeveloped flagella. . 
52. C. Doriaei, Bece. mss. 
Burma; on Mt. Karin, L. Fea. lied 
Only a portion of a spadix with fruit known. It appears to be ne per 
to C. latifolius, from which it is distinguished by the elongate fruit 3-1 by 
I have seen no specimen. J.D.H. 
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53. C. simplex, Becc. mss.; leaves flagelliferous, leaflets I in 
large elliptic 3-6-costate, spadix supra-axillary quite simple o E ele or 
flagelliferous bearing at every primary spathe a solitary sımp ski pedi- 
at most two from the lowest spathe, fruiting calyx callous 8 omy Zoch 
celliform, fruit rather large broadly ovoid, seed globose, albume 
ruminate, embryo subbasilar. 
PERAK; on Gunong Tambang Batak., Scortechini (432). 
Differs from all other known species in the few divisions of the s 
seen no specimen. J.D.H. 
padix.—I have 
D 1 us, 
54. C. caesius, Blume Rumph. iii. 57; leaves subsessile flagelliferous 
uspt- 
leaflets very inequidistant in distant fascicles of 5-7 oblanceolate ^ e 
dately acuminate glaucous or farinose beneath acutely 4-costate and sU 
setulose, margins setulose acute, rachis armed with solitary. aciously 
whorled spines, sheath not flagelliferous very gibbous above iS us bases 
scurfy armed with scattered long horizontal spines with broad ca jii 
de n. ul. 
and small acute tubercles. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 340 ; Walp. Ze l 
M. 499. Palm. 
490, v. 832; Mig. Anal. Bot. Ind. i. 6; Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. E Walt 
Archip. Ind. 28. O. glaucescens, Blume, l.c. 65; Mart. l.c. , 
ll. cc. 489, 830; Mig. ll. cc. 
PERAK, Scortechini.—DistRis, Borneo. . 1 unknown. 
A lofty climber. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 12-14 by 2-23 in. Frut specimen. 
Appears to be allied to C. melanoloma of Java. I have seen no SP 
J.D.H. as 
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55. C. axillaris, Becc. mss.; leaves shortly petioled, leaflets ptt 
very inequidistant above oblanceolately ensiform, margins amor claws, 
unarmed below armed above with scattered simple and kën rescences 
spadix not flagelliferous elongate with several erect'partial in e y d, 
spathes 1st and 2nd fugaciously scurfy unarmed or the lower scare 
