Calamus. | OLXIII. PALMER. (Beccari E Hook, f.) 461 
Perak; Scortechini. 
Apparently scandent, leaf-sheiths 2-3 in. diam. Leaves 8-19 ft. long; petiole 
3 ft.; leaflets 2 ft. by 13-2 in. Fruit above an inch long, suddenly contracted 
into a conical point; scales shining, straw-cold.—Very near C. ornatus, but more 
robust, and more densely armed; abundantly distinct in the non-flagelliferous 
paix, longer branches, and armed secondary spathes.—I have seen no specimen. 
DH. 
70. C. scipionum, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. i. 210; leaves not flagelli- 
ferous, leaflets numerous firm equidistant upper gradually smaller elongate- 
lanceolate or subensiform aculeolate tips bristly, costae 5-7 naked on both 
surfaces or sparsely aculeolate beneath, margins nearly smooth, upper- 
most pair connate at the base, rachis and petiole armed with very stout 
conico-subulate scattered recurved spines, spadices very long flagelliferous, 
lower spathes very long tubular unarmed or their keels armed, fruiting 
calyx very small pedicelliform, fruit small ovoid or globose abruptly 
mammillate brown. Lam. Encycl. vi. 304 (non Illustr. & excl. syn.); Mart. 
Hist, Nat. Palm. iii. 342; Kunth Enum. iii. 206; Walp. Ann. iii. 342; 
v. 832; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 85; Palms Brit. Ind. 43 ; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 138. C. micranthus, Blume Rumph. ii. 53 
(leaf only), t. 157 (excl. spadix & anal. fl.).—Ching, Griff. Lc. c.c. 87 and 
Maracca, Grifith. Perak, Scortechini (5015); at Gunong-Malacca, King’s 
Collector (7171)—Disrris. Borneo. 
Stem 40-60 tt., sheath 2-3 in. diam. Leaves 4-5 ft. ; flagellum 10-12 ft. ; larger 
leaflets 18-20 by 1}-2 in., rather coriaceous, tips not produced; rachis as thick as the 
little finger, smooth except from the scattered spines, obtusely trigonous. Male spadia 
ft.; fem. about 10 ft. long ; lower spathe compressed, upper cylindric ; spathels 1 in., 
tubular, truncate, smooth, unarmed, or with a few conical tubercles; branches of 
m. spadix long; spikes 2—4 in., rather distant, spreading and recurved, stout.; 
§pathellules and bracts very short imbricate; fem. fl. sessile. Frutting calys small, 
Toadly urceolate, base truncate intruded, mouth much contracted, lobes very 
short ; petals rather longer, broadly ovate. Fruit (young) 4 in. long, scales brown 
shiring tumid hardy channelled, with broad pale scarious margins. Seed (young) 
‘ub-obovoid, alveolate, embryo basilar. 
GaovP XIII. See p. 438. . 
71. C. conirostris, Becc. mss.; leaf long-petioled shortly flagelli- 
ferous, leaflets numerous equidistant narrowly ensiform tips slender 
strongly setulose, costae 3 more or less setulose above the median only 
Neath, rachis and flagellum armed with stout recurved 3-5-fid 
Claws, petiole very stout, margins densely armed with subsolitary stout 
straight erect and spreading spines, sheath armed with very long and 
slender spines, spathes copiously armed with subseriate straight P 
em. spadix very stout, spathels deusely spinous, spikes very short an 
stont, bracts large densely imbricate cupular, fl. large, fruit narrowly 
Gm Dàrrowed into a stout beak black. 808) 
ERAK ; at Gopin . 500-1000 ft., King’s Collector (4593, . 
n Stem 15-20 ft ely in: diam Leaves 6-8 ft. glossy ; leaflets 10-1 8 ft. by 
~~ 1D. upper smaller, membranous; petiole as thick as the middle finger, c 
H : * «he: in. long, acicular. 
Pruit pnt sparsely shortly armed; upper spines $ cone "black, quite smooth 
rit 13 in. long by 3 in. diam., very smooth ; scales flat, brown-black, ` 
ws polished, closely imbricating, the basal concealed part yellow ; fruiting calyx i 
Dee Cüpular, not pedicelliform ; lobes large broad appressed ; petals very ` 
ovoid, rough ; albumen cancellate throughout. 
