Calamus.] CLXII. PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 459 
beneath, petiole long stoutly armed, sheath excessively armed with large 
«rate straight or deflexed spines and scattered short ones. Mig. Palm, 
Archip. Ind. 17, with fig. C. Fernandezii, H. Wendl. in Kerchov. Palm, 
Demonorops fasciculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 330; Walp, 
4m. iii. 480, v. 820 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 101.—Rotang Pajare, Grif. in 
Cale, Journ, Nat. Hist. v. 89; Palms Brit. Ind. 95. 
Matacca, Fernandez, Oxley.—Di1sTRIB. Banca ? 
Stem with the sheaths about 1 in. diam. Leaves 10-11 ft. long exclusive of the 
g flagellum ; leaflets 1 ft. by $ in.; petiole about 2 ft.; its lower part armed 
the sheath 3 Sheath with a very oblique mouth.— Descript. from Griffith, 
Group XII. See p. 438. 
„ 4 GC. Martianus, Bece, mss.— C. paniculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 
1. 334 (not of Roxb.). 
PENANG; Gaudichaud, . 
fem scandent, Leaflets 4-5 in., equidistant, alternate, lanceolate, tip shortly 
*etninate and bristly 7-9-costate, margins and surfaces unarmed, petiole very short, 
rachis and slender flagellum armed with short spines, sheath with a short obliquely 
cate ochrea. Male spadix decompound, lower spathes subterete faintly 2-keeled 
rachis armed with short scattered spines, upper unarmed, spikes slender spreading 
Snalling Or twice as long as their spathes.— Description from Martius, neither 
nor have I seen specimens.—J. D.H. 
65. €. Spathulatus, Becc. mss.; leaflets very few alternate distant 
‘Permost pair connate at the base elliptic obtuse convex above, 
and margins quite smooth, petiole very short and slender, 
ti 8 copiously armed with large solitary and 2-3-nate recurved black- 
wi Spines, sheath flagelliferous elongate cylindric copiously armed with 
if orm short straight conical-based spines, fem. spadix slender flagel- 
Tous, spathes slender terete armed with short hooked spines, fruiting 
od Pedicelliform short contracted sessile, base broadly truncate, fruit 
wg) long-beaked very pale. 
Matacca, Lobb, Hery 
25, Scandent ; very lender. Leaves probably 2-3 ft. long; leaflets 47 by 
T in., coriaceous, shining above, base acute, cross-nervüles very many and c los ; 
be and rachis subterete, flagellum very slender; sheath as thick as the fore 
tape thickly coriaceous, pale, smooth between the short flattened subseriate spin s, 
alate + very stout. Fem. spadix long, slender, with distant branches which M 
bnauchen A rachis far above the slender closely appressed spathess E 
N ubercled 3 in, loug; spikes 1-13 in., ag er Séier deiere 
jer" Fruit (young) 4 in. long, shortly " channelled 
a t; seale straw-cold., faintly channelled. 
King, robusta, Bece. AR: much SC very stout.—Perak, Geelong-Malacca, 
Mr Collector (7136). 
T ] FQ, 
A C. insignis, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 36) Palms 
Ind, 69 ; leatlets few distant alternate uppermost pair or 7-9. ostate 
ta ‘liptic-oblong or -oblanceolate cuspidately subacute convex hi M ender 
k "ri. thiekeneq recurved and both surfaces quite smooth None slender 
Polish qe petiole shortly very sparingly prickly, sheath. al tubercles 
Mart ed very Sparingly armed with tubercular spines or Se Mig. FU 
Ind. Bai; Nat. Palm. iii. 338; Walp. Ann. ui. 488, v. 831; Mig. P^. 
- Bat. iii, 198" 
