110 CXLVII, PALMA (WRIGHT). [ Calamus. 
4, GC. Cabree, De Wild. d&: Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. 
Belg. xxxviii. 151. A climbing shrub. Leaves long; rhachis gradually 
attenuate upwards and prolonged into an unarmed or slightly armed 
cirrhus, convex below, slightly rounded above, bearing 1—2 uncinate re- 
curved black-tipped spines 2 lin. long between each pair of leaflets ; 
leaflets nearly equidistant, rather more remote towards the apex, alter- 
nate, 23-54 in. long, 14-34 in. wide, obovate-trapezoid, flat, much 
narrowed and reduplicate at the base, chartaceous, longitudinally pli- 
cate, midrib and secondary nerves slightly prominent, margins repando- 
crenate in the upper part, sparingly spiny, shining on the upper side; 
“ abortive leaflets opposite, the lowest 43-7 in. distant from the upper- 
most, 9-14 lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, thick, confluent and thickened at 
the base, slightly sigmoid, horny, subulate-triquetrous, two faces concave, 
the upper gradually getting nearer and smaller.” 
Lower Guinea. Lower French Congo: forests of Mayombe, Cabra. 
I have seen no specimen of this species, of which the leaves alone are known. 
Imperfectly known species. 
5. ©. Heudelotii, Becc. ex Drude in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 112, 134. 
Petiole short, flat and unarmed above, convex and with recurved spines 
up to7 lin. long beneath; sheath tubular, oblique at the mouth, sparingly 
armed with short stout spines; rhachis in the upper part of the leaf acute 
and unarmed above, convex and armed with black-tipped recurved spines 
3 lin. long beneath ; Jeaflets about 6 lin. apart, linear-lanceolate, gradually 
acuminate, with pungent upward pointing sete on both surfaces and 
margins ; terminal cirrhus copiously armed with small recurved spines. 
Ultimate branches of spadix 2 in. long ; bracteoles cupular, irregularly 
lacerate at the mouth. Fruit ovate, shortly apiculate; scales in about 
15 rows, light brown, with a central furrow.—Calamus sp., Mann & 
Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 430, in note. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 372! Gambia, Ingram ! 
The material is, as stated by Mann and Wendland (l.c.), insufficient to allow a 
satisfactory description of this species being drawn up. 
7. ONCOCALAMUS, Mann et Wendl.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. iii. 936. 
Spadix lateral, monecious, distichously branched; branches long, 
pendulous ; spathes incomplete. Flowers 11~3 in alternate distichous 
bracteolate glomerules, the central one female, the rest male. Male 
flower: Calyx campanulate, shortly 3-lobed. Corolla 3-partite almost 
to the base. Stamens 6; filaments united into a minutely 6-toothed 
campanulate cup; anthers cordate, dorsifixed. Rudiment of ovary 
oblong ; style cylindrical ; stigmas minute. Female flower: Calyx and 
corolla as in the male. Staminodes like the filaments of the male 
flower. Ovary 3-celled; style very short; stigmas 3, tongue-shaped ; 
ovule fixed slightly above the base of the cell. Fruit unknown.— 
