Calamus. ] CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 457 
spikelets short scorpioid, 3rd spathe infundibular, limb open truncate 
margin fimbriate, spathels and spathellules striate margins ciliate, flowers 
distichous, calyx finely striate. 
PERAK, Scortechini, 
Described from a single specimen which I have not seen. The fruit, and hence 
the position of the species, is unknown. J.D. H. 
i d c. pallidulus, Becc. mss. ; leaves subsessile, leaflets inequidistant 
ardly fascicled ensiform acuminate, cost 3 unarmed on both surfaces, 
Mud sparsely spinulose, rachis strongly armed with uniform short 
armed 'pped 3-fid claws, sheath with scattered short straight spines, spathes 
short] bes short stout scattered simple conical spines, fruit spherical 
s y beaked pale, seed deeply pitted, albumen ruminate. 
BRAK; at Thaiping, Wray (2392, 3017). 
or se in. The Kei spathes Me naked with much dilated obliquely 
muricate m e The fem. spikes 2-2} in., strongly recurved; spathels strongly 
hardiy scarious b i ke diam., very pale; scales obscurely channelle!, margins 
ves S, beak cylindric ; fruiting calyx pedicelliform. — Described from two 
» à small portion of a sheath, a fragment of a spadix with ripe fruit. 
GRovP XI. See p. 438. 
* Ln D 
Fruiting perianth not pedicelliform. 
ay lenoideus, Thw. ex Trimen in Journ Bot. 1885, 269; leaves 
margin thick ets equidistant broadly linear alternate 3-costate tip bristly, 
margins " pred smooth, costz setose beneath, rachis fugaciously scurfy, 
arm wih y back rounded with solitary hooked spines, sheath densely 
armed with "eho of flat deflexed often lacerate black spines, lower spathes 
stout recur Gier broad flat reflexed spines, fruiting spadix with very 
beaked ved spikelets, fruiting perianth stellate, fruit obovoid strongly 
C 
Stem ov Saffragam district, Thwaites (CP. 3925). 
10-14 by "dl Scandent. Leaves 14 ft. and more incluling the flagellum; leaflets 
beaked, scalas o bright green above, duller beneath. Fruit §-3 in. long, strongly 
Orange. es pale greyish yellow, strongly channelled, narrowly margined with 
rown.—Described from Trimen 1. c. 
t. A andamanicus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 211, 
*ubulate.;' xxvi. ; For. Fl. ii. 519; leaflets alternate equidistant linear 
and tachig en nate 3-costate, margins thickened and costæ setose, petiole 
based Unas armed with stout recurved spines, petiole with blackish tuberous- 
teriate wh mixed with long black spines, sheath red brown covered with 
Pound n ane of capillary black and broad flat black spines, spadix decom- 
and terna t ing, spathes subcompressed armed with strong reflexed solitary 
With | ate spines, partial unarmed, fruit elliptic-ovoid acuminate, scales 
ong fimbriate tips. ` 
An 
Stem hax and Nicopar Isnanps, Kurz, Man. 
by.) in yey scandent, as thick as the arm (with the sheathson). Leaflets 2-2} ft. 
il, imi - Fruit distichous, uniformly brown, about j in. long; scales rhom- 
longed in nish, bordered with chesnut-brown, rather flat, not furrowed, tips pro- 
longer to a lanceolate pale brown opaque acute ciliolate membranous appendage, 
above Caen SH itself. Seed semiconvex, grooved; albumen equable.—(The 
